118 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



Perianth none. Male spikes simple. Sfiimens 3 or 2. Female s/ii/.rs simple or rom- 

 jioiind. Pistil embraced bij an inner seale u-ith its hack to the axis, bicarinate (analvi/ous 

 to the upper (jlumelle of the Graminaccm), icith edyes nsualbi joined, and thus J'orminij an 

 eneelupe, persistent and accrescent, and enclosing either the otary only, or the ovary 

 accompanied by a sterile setiform pedicel. 



Carex, Linnatis. 



Floivers unisexual, the males and females in distinct spikclets, or in different 

 parts of androgynous spikelets. Glumes imbricated all round the axis. Stamens 3, 

 or rarely fewer, without scales or bristles. Ovary enclosed in a bottle-shaped or 

 inflated utricle, contracted at the top, with a small oblique or 2-toothed opt'uing, 

 through which protrudes the style, whicli is 2- or 3-cleft. Achene enclosed in the 

 persistent utricle. Leares grass-like, mostly radical, or on the lower part of the 

 stem. Spikelets either solitary or few, one terminal, the others mostly distant, or 

 stalked, or forming a terminal compound spike or panicle. 



C. LONCTi.iEisi.vT.i, Boott. Tillauchong (K.). 



C. Benohalensis, Iloxb. India. S. China. 



C. CRYnosT.icnYA, Brong. Pinang. S. China. 



SCLElilE^H. 

 Spikelets diclinous, the male many-flowered. Glumes imbricate in 2 or several rows, 

 the lower ones sometimes empty. Perianth none. Stamens 1 or 3, rarely 5. Female 

 spikelets \- flowered, u-ith glumes imbricate in several rows. Perianth none. Style trifid, 

 equal at the base. Achene bony or crustaceoKS, nsually seated on a trilobed disk. 



ScLERiA, Linnaus. 



Flowers unisexual, in unisexual or androgynous spikelets, with several empty 

 glumes below the flowering ones. 3fale spikelets severul-flowered. Stamens 3, rarely 

 fewer. Females 1 -flowered. Style 3-cleft. Androgynous spikelets with the lowest 

 flower female, the others male. A^ut bony or brittle, seated on a thickened entire or 

 3-lobed disk. Grass-like herbs with leafy stems. Ligule, or projection of the leaf- 

 sheath o])posite the blade often very conspicuous. Spikelets in clusters, or small 

 corymbose or oblong panicles, terminal, and in the upper axils, forming either an 

 oblong leafy panicle, or an intermpted spike. 



S. LATERiFLOKA, Bocck. Kamorta (K.). 



Var. GLABRA. 



S. LiTHOSPERMA, "Willd. Kamorta. Katchall (K.). Ceylon. India and S. China. 



R. SuMATRENsrs, Iletz. Kamorta (K.). Ceylon. 



S. LiEvis, Eetz. Kamorta (Iv.). Ceylon. S.China. 



S. TESSELATA, Willd. India. Ceylon. S. Chiua. 



S. Steudeliana, Miip 



S. CniNENsis, Kth. Bengal. S. Chiua. 



S. ciliaris, Nees (non Mich.). 



SHYNCBOSrOSIEyi:. 

 Spikelets usually few-floirered. Glumes imbricate in 2 or several rotes, the lower 

 empty. Flowers usually polygamous. Perianth none, or composed of G bristles, rarely 

 less and very rarely more. Stamens 3 or C. Achene often beaked by the persistent base 

 of the style. 



BHTNcnosroRA, Ti". Browne. 



Spikelets 1-2- (rarely 3-) flowered, oblong, more or less pointed. Glumes 

 ind)ricatc all round, several outer ones shorter and empty. Hypogynous bristles C, 

 sometimes more. Stamens 3, or fewer. Style 2-eleft. Nut globuLar or rarely 

 flattened, crowned by the persistent continuous base of the style. Stems usually 

 leafy. Spikelets nsually clustered, and of a rich brown, in terminal or axillary heads 

 or corymbs, sometimes forming large terminal leafy panicles. 



