CLXXIL CYPERACEZ, (C. B. Clarke.) 587 
Syle-base thickened not passing gradually into the nut . . 14. RYNCHOSPORA. 
* Style 3-fid. 
Lowest fertile gl. somewhat distant from the one above it. . 15. Scuanvs. 
i elets panicled, 1—7-fld., lowest fl. alone perfect. . . . 16. CLADIUM. 
pikelets 34. A4. uppermost fl. alone perfect. . . . . . 17. MICROSCHCENUS. 
Spikelets 1.2-fid., uppermost fl. alone perfect ; hypog. scales 
mg ye, 18. LEPIDOSPERMA. 
Spikelets 1-2-fid, as in 18, hypog. scalesO. . . . . , . 19, GAHNIA. 
Anomalous genus. 
ets sessile in dense digitate cylindric spikes; glumes 4, 
empty, uppermost with a perfect flower... . . . . 20, REMIREA. 
B. Hyroryrres. Spikelets with one terminal fem, flower, two basal 
posite male glumes, and 0-9 intercalated monandrous or empty spirally 
arranged glumes, 
468 COrymbose; style2-fid . . . .  . 21. HYyPOLYTRUM. 
Pikes corymbose 3 Style 3-fid . . . . . 22. THORACOSTACHYUM. 
pikes Congested ; style 3-fid . . . . . 23. MAPANIA. 
Pikes in an oblong panicle 24. SCIRPODENDRON. 
Pikes in a unilateral dense spiciform panicle. . 25, LEPIRONIA. 
d ëss Spikelets 1-sexual or with one basal fem. flower and one 
.* male or empty glumes. Nut stipitate, osseous. Hypogynous scales 
bristles 0, — "7? . priate, 26. SCLERIA. 
x CanICE X. Spikelets uni- or bisexual, monccious or dicecious. 
8 enclosed in an entire or 2-fid sac (utricle). 
Utricle Split down one side . . ©. ^. o. 27. KOBRESIA. 
e entire or 2-fid at the tip only . . . . 28. CAREX. 
D D e 
L EYLLINGA, Aotíb. 
stem erect, simple, leafy below only, terminated by 1-3 sessile capitate 
ikel. Prees ovoid or cylindric, dense, with numerous small compressed 
Kc lwmes 4-5, distichous, rhacheola disarticulating above the 
west which are empty; gl. iii, bisexual; gl. iv. male or empty, 
we 7 fertile; gl. v. rudimentary or 0 (rarely additional upper glumes 
KL Stamens 1-3, anterior; anthers linear-oblong, muticous or nearly 
bn compressed laterally ; style linear, base continuous with nut; 
es 2, linear.—Sp. 33; all hot and temp. regions except Europe. 
* . 
Nut-bearing glume not winged in the upper half of its keel. 
ES trice it. Rheede); 
ps, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 14, t. 4, fig. 6 (excl, cit. Rheede); 
Ch glabrous, rhizome very short, stem thickened at base, spikes 3-1 
AM d 43) Subcylindrie whiteish, nut ultimately yellow-brown. Roxb. Ft. 
la, 81; Nees in Wight Contrib. 91; Thw. Enum. 345; Boeck. in 
(not? xxv. 413 (excl. var. B). K. monocephala, Nees in. Wight Contrib. 
Lii o Rott). K. brevifolia P Hb. Heyne.—Kyllingia, Wall. Cat. 3443. 
tpha, Wall, Cat. 3445, partly. 
Aiea Gn W. Ixpr and Sen to BENGAL, BURMA, and CEYLON.— DisTRIB. 
l 
ina, ustral. . 
rw 2-12 in., base tumid, Leaves as long (or half as long) as the stem, i$ in. 
ead “4-4 in. in diam. ; bracts 8-4, up to 2-3 in. Spikelets cke in. 
