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26 . Eleocharis equisetina. 
El. culmo articulato tereti, spica cylindracea, valvis el- 
liptico -subrotundis uninerviis, stylo compresso bifido 
basi dilatato, setis sex, nucp ancipite punctulata. 
EI. equisetina Pressi. Reliq. Hacnk. fasc. 3. p. 195. 
Habitat in insula Luzon. 2|.. 
Radix repens. Culmi sesquipedales, crassitie pennae Cor- 
vinae, striati, articulati, inanes, teretes, basi vaginis duabus 
aphyllis purpurascentibus apice ovatis acutis tecti. Spica se- 
niipollicaris, cylindracea, culmo vix crassior. Valvae arcte 
imbricatae, albidae, margine tenuissimo fuscescentes, uniner- 
ves, inferiores subrotundae, superiores elliplico-subrotundae. 
Stylus longus, compressus, glaber, supra medium bifidus, basi 
pyramidato-dilatatus. Stigmata plana, ciliata. Setae sex, ru- 
fescentes, hispidae, nucem obovatam ancipitem nitidulam mi- 
nutissime punctulatam rufescentem non superantes. — Affi- 
nis El. plantagineae, differt magnitudine duplo minore, val- 
vis magis subrotundis, stylo bifido, nuce ancipite setarum 
longitudine (Pressi.) 
27 . Eleocharis plantaginea. 
El. culmis remotiuscule interstinctis, spica subcylindrica 
acuta, valvis oblongis obtusis. 
El. plantaginea Roem. et Sch. syst. veg. 2. p.l50. mant,2, 
p. 86. 
Scirpus plantagineus Rottb. gram. 45. t. 15. f. Refz 
obs. 5. p. 14. Willd. sp. pl.l, p. 291. Vabl Enum.2. 
p.251. Roxb. ind. 1. p.214. 
Habitat in India orientali. 
Radix stolonifera, fibris crassis spongiosis. Culmus 2-4 
ped. altus, erectus, teres, glaber, nudus, praeter basin vagina 
membranacea una alterave tectam, intus ad quemvis 4 polli- 
cem septis rigidis transversis interceptus praeter innumera mi- 
nora. Spica faipollicaris. Valvae obovatae, glabrae, subcari- 
natae, marginibus membranaceis. Setae hypogynae purpureaci 
(Roxb.) 
28. Eleocharis tumida, 
El. culmis venlricosis aequaliter interstinctis, spica cylin- 
drica, valvis late ianceolatis acatis, setis hypogynis 
simplicibus. 
El. tumida Roem. et Sch. syst. veg. mant. 2. p.86. 
Scivpns tumidus Roxb. ind. i. p.215. 
Habitat in India orientali. 
Similis £1. plantagineae, radice eadem. Culmus 2-3 
pedes altas, teres, glaber, tumidulus, interstitiis transversis 
manifestis regulariter lio. 2 a se invicem distantibus. Spica 
erecta, pollicaris. Valvae acutae, subcarinatae, laeves. (Roxb.) 
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