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colour, with simple culms, leafy at base only, and solitary, terminal, straw- 
coloured spikelets.—EKastern districts. 
10. FICINIA, Schrad. 
Spikelets many-flowered. Glumes imbricated on all sides. 
Perianth 0. Stamens 3. Ovary mostly sitting on a fleshy 
disk; style 3-fid, rarely 2-fid, equal at base, deciduous. 
Achene pointed or pointless, flattish on the inner, convex and 
bluntly angled on the outer side, very rarely convex on both 
sides, mostly on a fleshy entire or 2-3-lobed disk.— Kunth, l.c. 
p. 251. 
Culms leafy below or leafless. Spikelets very variously disposed ; solitary 
or few or many in a cluster or capitate-glomerulate, rarely racemose ; glo- 
merules compound or umbelled. Glumes keeled, many-nerved.—Many 
species, very diverse in aspect. 
11. MELANCRANIS, Vahl. 
Spikelets few-flowered, minute, crowded in a head and mixed 
with large, imbricated, membranous, acuminate, dorsally con- 
vex, glume-like bracts, which conceal the spikelets. Glumes 
imbricated on all sides. Perianth 0. Stamens 8. Ovary on 
a fleshy disk; style deeply 3-fid, equal at base, deciduous. 
Achene 3-angled, obtuse, on a disk.— Kunth, l.c. p. 264. 
M. scariosa, the only certain (of 3 or 4) species, looks like a 1-headed 
Ficinia, but on examination the inflorescence will be found to be very dif- 
ferent. The heads vary in size and the bracts in colour.—Found through- 
out the colony. 
Tripe 3. Hypotytremx, (Gen. 12-13.) 
12. HEMICARPHA, Nees. 
Spikelets many-flowered. Glumes imbricated on all sides, 
obovate-cuneate, deciduous; inner (palea) smaller; lateral 
very thin, hyaline, clasping the flower. Perianth 0. Stamens 
1, sublateral. Style 2-fid. Achene elliptic-oblong, subterete, 
umboned, punctulate, enrolled in a hyaline scale-—Kwnth, 1. c. 
p. 268. 
A small plant, resembling Isolepis setacea. Culms tufted, leafy at base 
leaves setaceous. Spikelets solitary, ovate, obtuse, sessile. Bract 1-leaved, 
continuous with the culm. 
13. PLATYLEPIS, Kth. 
Spikelets many-flowered. Glumes (composed of 2 united 
by their inner margin) imbricated on all sides, slightly convex, 
roundish, narrow-pointed at the apex, spongioso-coriaceous, 
internally bivalve, externally subtended by a much smaller 
