424, CXLI. CYPERACE. 
plumose-pubescent, persistent bristles. Stamens 3. Style 
3-fid, pyramid-thickened at base. Achene 3-angled, crowned 
or beaked by the style-base and girt by the bristles— Kunth, 
loesp. 31. 
Coarse-growing, pale sedges, with 3-angled, leafy culms. Leaves rigid, flat 
but keeled. Panicles or thyrsi axillary or terminal; spikelets solitary or 
capitate.—3 Cape species. 
22. SCLEROCHATIUM, Nees. 
Spikelets 2-flowered, upper bisexual, lower male. Glumes 
imbricate on all sides, keeled, lower empty, subulate-awned. 
Perianth of 6 short, cartilaginous, pilose bristles. Stamens 3. 
Style 3-fid, equal at base. Achene stalked, 3-angled, girt by 
the short bristles.— Kunth, lc. p. 320. 
Culms tall, sub-3-gonous, leafy. Leaves narrow linear, keeled, rigid. 
Panicle terminal, branched, leafy, nodding; spikelets tufted, bracteate ; 
bracts long, awned.—2 species. 
23. CYATHOCOMA, Nees. 
Spikelets 1-flowered. Glumes distichous, the lower smaller, 
empty. Stamens 5-6; anthers mucronate. Perianth mem- 
branous, tubular, bearing 6 capillary bristles, as long as the 
pistil. Style deeply 3-fid, its base thickened, contmuous with 
the 3-angular ovary.— Kunth, l. ce. p. 322. 
Culm jointed, fragile at the joints, rigid. Leaves very roughly serrulate. 
Spikelets in axillary, 2-fid, flexuous spikes.—2 species. 
24. CHABTOSPORA, R. Br. 
Spikelets 1-5-flowered, all bisexual. Glumes distichous, 
the lower smaller, empty. Perianth of 8-6 scabrous or plu- 
mose bristles. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid, equal at base, deci- 
duous. Achene 3-angled, more or less tipped with the per- 
sistent style-base, girt with the bristles—Awnth, l.c. p. 323. 
Culms leafy at base. Leaves setaceous, channelled or flat. Spikelets 
tufted or subcapitate, rarely axillary and terminal.—6 Cape species. 
25. HEMICHLZANA, Schrad. 
Spikelets several-(5-9-)flowered, all bisexual. Glumes dis- 
tichous, boatshaped, keeled, 1-2 lower empty. Perianth 0. 
Stamens 3. Style 3-fid, equal at base, deciduous. Achene 
flat inside, convex-angled without, scarcely umbonate, sitting 
in an irregularly lobed, turbinate disk.—Aunth, 1. ¢. p. 830. 
Culms simple or branched, leafy. Spikes terminal, solitary or several in 
a tuft. Glumes brown.—3 Cape species. 
