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inner side from below the middle or almost to the base, all free or more 
or less united at the base. Fruit dry, often hard, usually small, either 2- 
either opening along 1-side, or an indehiscent nut. Seeds 1 in each 
cell, attached at or near the top, usually striate or minutely tubercular- 
rugose; testa appressed; albumen usually méaly. Embryo small, 
lenticular or obovoid, at the base of the albumen, at the end 
v PU 
simple or branched, erect or flexuose and variously twisted. Leaves 
hone or few, radical and long linear or sedge-like, but the stems usually 
bracteoles and concealed under the glume, or when not in close spike- 
me is almost limited to extratropical South Africa, Australia and New 
South Af Of the eleven Australian genera two of the largest are also numerous in 
Zealan, rica but without any identical species, one of them also represented in New 
d, the other 9 endemic, 
ee are clo d in habit and inflorescence to Cyperace@ and in the 
ses I Juncee but readily distinguished from both by the pendulous ovules and 
he great dissimilarity in habit and inflorescence between the males and 
Ye correctly matched the two sexes, and in several others one sex is still 
Pw Aa or 2m Styles or style branches 2 or 3. 
wers in spikelets with imbricate glumes, e 
3 s, Mal 
Spikelets Several-flowered. Filaments connate. 
Female spikelets 1-flowe 1. Lorna. 
i te 
a 
glumes, either d : 
Fl female si tamens free. . . . . . . 2, ECDBIOCOLEA. 
wers in narrow or spikelike panicles, the glumes 
Anthers | t imbricate and 2 bracteoles under each flower. 3. ANARTHRIA. 
1-celled, 
Flowers in narrow or spike-like panicles, the glumes 
Scarcely imbricate and usually 2 bracteoles under 
BRNO Em. ono Er ra or o FTO 
‘rs in spikelets with imbricate glumes, the 
Spikelets several-flowered in both sexes or the 
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