549 



calyx none : stamens 2 — 3 : style 2-oleft : achenium bony, beaiked 

 with the conical base of the style, a little compreBsed, swoUen- 

 lenticular, exceeding the scale. — Culms triquetrous, leafy : spikes 

 capitately fascicled or arranged in panicled corymbs. 



(1) H. LAirFOLitm. (Rich. J 



lAent. Eich. in Pers. Syn. I. 70. 



Syn. H. giganteum, WigM Contrih. p. 93. — Tunga diandra, 

 Boxh. — Schcenus nemorum, Vahl. 



JEngrav. Eheede Mai. xii. t. 58. 



Spec. Chae. Culms triangular, leafy : leaves longer, broadly 

 linear, flat, 3-nerved, stiffish, . spinous-serrulate at the margin and 

 middle-nerved beneath : corymbs paniculately arranged at the apex 

 of the culm : leaves distinct : spikes cyUndric oblong : scales rounded 

 at the apex, sub-mucronate, proper ones free, ciliated at the keel : 

 stamens 2 : fruit ovate, roundish, confluent with the acute conical 

 base of the style. 



Peninsula. 



iSGCT. IV. BHTJVCOSPORXJJS. 



GENUS XVI. EHtlSrCOSPOEA. 

 Vriandria, Moiiog'yilia. Sex: Syst: 



Berw. From Ehynoos a beak, and Sporos a seed. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes 1 — 9-flowered : flowers either all herma- 

 phrodite or lower one hermaphrodite (or female), the rest males : 

 scales every where imbricated, 1 -nerved, often mucronate and awned, 

 lower ones smaller, empty : calyx rudimentary : bristles 6, often 

 more or fewer, sometimes minute or quite obliterated : stamens 3, 

 very rarely 2 — 1 : style more or less deeply 2-cleft, dilated and 

 thickened at the base : achenium biconvex, beaked with the hardened 

 conical or subulate persistent base of the style. — Culms leafy : 

 spikes capitate, corymbose or panicled, usually rusty-brown : scales 

 deciduous. 



(i) E. aehottlata. (Schult.J 



Ident. Schult. Mant. II. 49.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 288. 



Syn. Schcenus aa-ticulatus, Roxl. — Cephaloschoenus articulatus, 

 Wight Contrih. 115. 



