586 CLXXI. ERIOCAULEE. (J. D. Hooker.) ` [Ertocaulon. 
ments. Ovary (in Caricez enclosed in a utricle) 1-celled ; style short or 
slender, 2-3-cleft, branches slender stigmatic; ovule 1, basal, Sch ani a 
pous. Fruit a compressed or 3-gonous nut. Seed erect, tree; e 3000 
minute, inside the usually floury albumen.—Genera 60; species , 
universally distributed. 
The above Ordinal character applies especially to the Indian Cuperacea, and takes 
xceptions to it, which occur in extra-Indian species. 
" SC GC to Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., for the following e irn of i 
Indian Cyperacee. It will be observed that in it the citations of aut See 
Floras have been almost restricted to those in which the species and their gd Kenth 
have been first indicated or described, and to the standard works o re when 
Boeckeler and Steudel (and of Boott in the genus Careg), to a goo t chic: of 
acceptable, and to the various Indian Floras, monographs, &c. The vas S te Tobe and 
the order, so many species of which are scattered over large areas o ` E table in 
are hence described in many extra Indian works, renders this course una v» mseri 
the case of a “ Flora ” which, like that of British India, must have circ 
limits. I have myself supplied the following clavis.—J. D. H. 
3 
A. CyrEREX. Spikelets of few or many glumes; lower 1-2 gh am 
empty, uppermost male empty or imperfect, intermediate one 
Remirea is exceptional. 
oye ed. 
Tribe I. EvcreREx. Fl. glumes usually many, distichously arrang 
Hypogynous bristles 0. 
* Style 2-fid. (in Juncellus very rarely 3-fid.). m 
Rhachilla of spikelet deciduous. . . . . . . . . . . LE tau. ` 
Rhachilla of spikelet persistent. Nut laterally compressed . — 2. Jo NOELLUS. 
Rhachilla of spikelet persistent. Nut dorsally compressed . 3. JU 
** Style 3-fid. de 
Rhachilla of spikelet persistent. . . . . . . A Or T acus 
Rhachilla of spikelet deciduous . e e e e sn ot nt 5. C JURTOISIA. 
Spikelet much flattened. Nut narrow, otherwise as Mariscus. 6. Co 
. ed. 
Tribe IL Scrrrex. Fl, glumes usually many, spirally puits 
Hypogynous bristles often present. 
]l] near 
* Style-base constricted or articulate above the nut. Leaves 4 
the base of the stem. Inflorescence umbelled. 
RIS. 
Hypogynous bristles nearly always present. LeavesO . . . 7: ELEOCHA 
Hypogynous bristles 0, Style-base persistent, or if deciduou 
not leaving a tumour on the nut . PL 
Hypogynous bristles 0, Style-base deciduous leaving a tumour 
on the nut. Leaves with long fine hairs 
8. FIMBRISTYLIS- 
9. BuLBosTYLI 
** Style-base passing gradually into the nut. pus 
Hypogynous bristles 0-6, undivided, linear, rarely oblong . . 10. yor Honey 
Hypogynous bristles 6, divided to base into linear segments . 11. 
Hypogynous bristles 6 or 3, interior 3 broadly obovate (except Ni. 
in F, Wallichii, Ae, .' y * Q2. FOREN 
ve © e e © © © © ù œ RPHA. 
Hypogynous scales 2, hyaline, elliptic, enclosing the nut . . 13. Lirocs 
, , r empty 
Tribe IIT. Ryncuosrorrz. Fl glumes 1 or 2, with several Wée 
glumes and several upper empty or male glumes which are thin 
keeled. Hypogynous bristles filiform, linear, or 0. 
* Style 2-fid. 
