Order I. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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4323 The only species 
4324 Culm rounded mucronate. Panicle terminal, Invol. 2-leaved spiny 
4325 Panicle terminal proliferous. Involucre 2-leaved spiny. Caps. obi. acute as long as sepals 
4326 Culm upright. Pan. lateral globose, Caps, retuse. Flowers triandrous 
4327 Culm upright. Pan. lateral decompound effuse. Caps, clavate truncate at end 
4328 Culm glaucous at the end bent inwards and rounded. Pan. lat. erect. Caps, oblong acute 
4329 Culm pungent. Panicle effuse 
4330 Culm erect, Umbel lateral, Pedunc. many-fl. Flowers sessile 
4331 Culm filiform nodding. Panicle lateral 
4332 Leaves and flowers ternary terminal 
4333 Leaves setaceous. Heads clustered leafless 
4334 Leaves linear flat. Stem dichotomous racemose higher than leaves, Flowers solitary 
4335 Culm filiform. Head terminal sessile solitary in an involucre , , . . 
4336 Leaves jointed compressed, Culm not jointed. Panic, erect. Caps, colored shmmg 
4337 Leaves jointed compressed, Culm not jointed. Panic, compound dichotomous. Sepals acute 
4338 Leaves and stem jointed round. Panic, divaricating, Sepal obtuse as long as capsule 
4339 leaves bristly somewhat knotty. Heads 3-flowered proliferous. Culm bulbous rootmg 
4340 Bulbous, Culm leafy erect compressed. Flowers 3-androus and bractes bearded 
4341 Culm procumbent. Leaves setaceous jointed, Corylnb dichotomous divaricating. Head 5-fl. sessile 
4342 Leaves linear channelled. Culm leafy at base. Pan. cymose. Caps, obtuse 
4343 Leaves linear channelled. Culm dichotomous racemose. Flowers solitary 
4344 Leaves flat. Head 3-flowered terminal erect leafless with bracte£e 
4345 Leaves flat. Head 2-flowered terminal one-sided leafy at base 
4346 Leaves flat stem-clasping. Head terminal double many-flowered leafy at base, Bractes acute 
4347 Leaves pilose. Panic, cymose divaricating. Flowers solitary. Caps, obtuse 
4348 Leaves pilose. Panic, cymose erect. Flowers solitary, Caps, pointed 
4349 Leaves pilose taper-pointed. Panic, cymose decompound. Flowers in bundles , , . . 
4350 Leaves and sheaths smooth. Corymb comp. close, Pedunc. many-flowered. Sepals acute shining 
4351 leaves pilose, Corymb decomp. spreading shorter than leaves, Sepals mucronate equal, Ror)t fibrous 
4:552 Leaves pilose, Corymb comp. contracted shorter than leaves. Sepals acute unequal, Hoot creeping 
4353 Leaves pilose, Spikes terminal. Capsules obtuse 
4354 Like the last, but the culm is panicled with ovate spikes 
4355 Leaves flat, Spike racemose nodding compound at base. Capsules acute 
im Like Luzula pUosa, but heads are yellower. Leaves broader, Flowers and capsules larger 
4357 Fronds pinnate palmate with a thread between the segments, Spadix erect 
4358 Seeds roundish dark-colored rugose the size of a nutmeg 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
them into mats, and foreign commerce at length introduced carpets. For the former purpose, indeed, as well 
as for chair-bottoms and hassocks, Scirpus lacustris has superseded their use. (English Flora, p. 162.) 
761. Luzula. These plants were called by the ancient botanists Gramen Luzulce ; whence this name has 
been contrived by Decandolle to distinguish the rushes with flat leaves, from those which have leaves resem- 
bling the stem. 
'62. Corypha. From %.a^v(p'/}, the summit of any thing ; a name applied by Linneeus to this noble genus of 
palms, the topmost leaves of which form immense fans twenty feet long and fifteen wide. In Ceylon this palm 
is called Tallipot, and, according to Knox {Hist, of Ceylon.), it grows as big and tall as a ship's mast, and very 
straight. The leaves are of great use, one being so broad and large, that it will cover fifteen or twenty men. 
Being dried it is very strong and limber ; and though it be very broad when open, yet it will fold close like a 
fan, and then is no bigger than a man's arm. The whole leaf spread is round, but is cut into triangular pieces 
for use : these they lay upon their heads as they travel, with the narrow end foremost, to make their way 
through thickets. Soldiers all carry them, not only to shade them from the sun, and to keep them dry in case 
of rain on their march, but to make their tents for them to lie under. These leaves all grow on the top of the 
tree. It bears no fruit until the last year of its life, and then yellow blossoms, most lovely to behold, but 
smelling very strongly, come out on the top, and sptead abroad in great branches ; these come to a fruit, round 
and very hard, as big as our largest cherries ; in such abundance, that one tree will yield seed enough for a 
country ; but not good to eat. The flowers smell so strong, that they cut down the trees when they are near 
houses. The trunk within is a pith only, which they beat in a mortar to flour, and bake cakes of it, which 
taste much like white bread. The leaves also serve for covering their houses, and for writing on with an iron 
style. Most of the books which are shown in Europe for the Egyptian papyrus, are made from the leaves of 
this palm. In Malabar it is called Codda-pana. Rumphius, Loureiro, and Adanson mention several other 
species of this palm. 
The C. taliera is a fine tree of prodigious use in the northern provinces of India for covering houses and for 
other useful purposes. 
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