THE CYPEUACE.^ OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 085 



(/') Spikelets 1 — 2-flo\vero(l, ovoid, pale (white or 

 oToonish), crowded in dense j^lobose or eylin- 

 dric solitary or capitately arranged spikes. 

 ( Jlumtv? slightly winged on the keel ; style 2-fid. ."!. Kijllhii/a. 



(o) Spikelets 1 — o-llowered, ovoid, golden-yellow, in 

 globose heads on the branches of an open 

 nmbel. Keels of fertile glumes with cotinu- 

 ous glistening wing ; style ."J-tid . . . . 4. Courtoisitf. 



/'. Flowering glumes all spirally arranged around a terete or Ipolygonal 

 rhiiohilla. Hypogynous bristles or scales often present. {SCIIiPEJe.) 

 1. Hypogynous bristles or scales 0. (See also 

 tScirpus). 

 (a) Style-base swollen, constricted above its point 

 of insertion on the nut, leaving no prominence 

 on the nut after dehiscence . . . . ..•"». Ftm/jiisti/lis. 



(6) Style-base swollen, constricted above its point 

 of insertion on the nut, leaving an apical 

 (usually dark) tumour on the (usually white) 

 nut after dehiscence. Leaves very finely ca- 

 pillary and with the rest of the plant often 

 puberulous . . . . . . . . . . (5. StenoplnjUw. 



•_'. Hypogynous bristles or scales present (absent in 

 those species of -^cirpiis whose nearest affi- 

 nities are with that genus), 

 (i) Nut with hypogynous bristles (exception as 

 above), 

 (a) Spikelets solitary, terminating the. stems. 



Leaves 0. . . . . . . . . . . 7. Eleocharis. 



{hj Spikelets several or many (in the Bombay 



species.) Leaves present or not . . . . H. Scirpus. 



(ii) Nut with hypogynous scales, or scales and 



bristles (bristles only in one sp. of Fuirma). 



{a) Hyp. scales 6, divided to the base into 



innumerable hairlike segments . . . . 9. Eriophorum. 



{h) Hyp. processes 0, in two series, the outer 

 (sepals) typically bristles, the inner (petals) 

 t3'pically scales; sometimes one or both (in 

 non-Bombay) species reduced . . , . ..10. Fuirena. 



(o) Hyp. scales 2, closely adhering to the nut, and 

 difficult to discern (two species both with 

 compact heads of several stout spikelets) . . 11. Lipocarjyha. 



II. CAKICOIDE.l'E. Primary branching of the inflorescence usually 

 paniculate (?.<»., of a terminal panicle as well as of partial panicles from the 

 axils of the stem leaves), or of several capitately crowded spikes or a 

 single jpike (reduced panicles). Stem generally leafy upwards. Spikelets 

 l-2-6exual. Florets less commonly 5, usually 1-sexual and monoecious. 

 A. Nut not enclosed in a utricle. 



(i) Nut dark, cylindric or compressed, usually 

 beaked, 

 (a) A maritime herb with crowded pungent, re- 

 curved leaves, and very short, ovoid oi 

 oblong, capitatelj' arranged spikelets , . 12. liemirca. 

 (tji) Inland herbs. Spikelets golden yellow, 

 acute, bearing one beaked nut. Bristles 

 usually present . . . . 13. lihi/nco<pora. 



