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Spec. Chae. Eoot strongly fibrous : culm triangular, smooth, 

 slender, leafy, 1 — 2-feet : radical and stem leaves flat; narrow, 

 scabrous at the margin, shorter than the culm, long acuminated at 

 the almost filiform apex : panicles axillary and terminal, peduncled, 

 branches simple or branched : spikes lax, 8 — 15-flowered, males at 

 the apex : female scales ovate, aristulate, spreading, a little shorter 

 than the utricles : utricles ovate-triquetrous, striated lengthways, 

 smooth or rough, long-beaked, beak shortly or scarcely 2-cleft : 

 male scales narrower. 



ITeUgherries. ITear Meroara. 



(21) C. LEirCANTHA. fBoott.J 



Ident. Boott. 1. c. 135. — Steudel 1. e. p. 195. 



Spec. Chab. Stem slender, 2 — 3 -feet, leafy at the base : spike 

 decompound from small androgynous spikelets : males at the apex, 

 terminal, and beneath at the apex of the peduncles congested and 

 sessile, axillary : partial spikes 4 — 6, alternate, more or less com- 

 pound, lower ones remote, peduncled, upper approximated, sessUe, 

 abbreviated : stigmas 3 : fruit trigonal-elliptic, acuminated, beaked, 

 deeply and obliquely cleft, scabrous, twice longer than ,the ovate, 

 hispidly mucronate scale. 



Peninsula. 



(22) C. MACKOPHYiLA. (Hochsi.) 



Ident. Hochst. 1. c. 942.— Stendel 1. c. p. 207. 



Spec Chab. Eoot strongly fibrous, supporting a 1-culmed leafy 

 turf : leaves numerous, radical, very long, linear, long acuminated, 

 scabrous at the edge, green glaucescent: culm triquetrous, leafy, 

 bearing from sheaths, fasicled unequal simple once-divided very 

 slender androgynous spikes, fernales below : scales hyaline, linear- 

 lanceolate, middle nerve lengthed into a short scabrous awn : 

 stamens 3, elongated, almost equalling the scale : female scales 

 similar to the males, inner scale elongated, forming a utricle em- 

 bracing the style up to the division. 



NeUgherries. 



(23) C. NiiAGEEicA. (Ebehst.) 



Ident. Hoohst. 1. c. 1290.— Steudel 1. c. p. 207. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot fibrous, thickened into a somewhat bulbous 

 woody rhizome : culm erect, triquetrous, smooth, leafy, 1-foot : 

 radical and stem leaves Knear lanceolate, a little scabrous, more or 

 less equaUing the culm : panicles axillary and a terminal one, small, 

 forming a compound panicle : spikes androgynous, males at the 



