426 CXLI. CYPERACES. 
sexual.—Male: Perianth 0. Stamens 8, in the axil of the 
glume.—Female: Ovary enclosed in a saccate palea; style 
2-3-fid. Achene lenticular or 3-angled, enclosed in the en- 
larged 2-dentate, saccate utricle-—Kunth, 1. ¢. p. 368. 
A vast genus, diffused over the world. Culms triangular, leafy. Spike- 
Lee eeraeee disposed, mostly many-flowered.—Several Cape species 
astern, 
30. UNCINTIA, Pers. 
Spikelets androgynous, male in the upper, female in the 
lower half. Glumes imbricate on all sides. Perianth 0.- 
—Male: Stamens 3.—Female: Ovary enclosed in a saceate 
utricle, and having at its base (within the sac) a hooked awn; 
style 3-fid, rarely 2-fid. Achene enclosed in the persistent 
and enlarged sac ; awn persistent, exserted.—Kunth, l.c. p. 524. 
Culms 3-angled; leaves grassy; spikelets solitary, terminal, erect.—1 
Cape species. 
31. SCHGANOXIPHIUM, Nees. 
Spikelets disposed in compound spikes, the terminal of each 
branchlet male, the lateral androgynous, subdistichous, sessile, 
bracteate at base-—Male spikelets many-flowered; glumes 
imbricate all round. Stamens 3. Androgynous; upper flower 
male, the basal flower female. Glume (or palea) of the 
female flower opposite the bract, contiguous to the common 
rachis, 2-keeled, embracing the pistil and the base of the 
racheole, its margins more or less connate so as to form a 3- 
angled sac, persistent in fruit. Perianth 0. Style 3-fid. 
Achene 3-angled, beaked by the style-base, covered by the 
persistent, saccate palea.—Kunth, l. c. p. 528. 
6 species, resembling androgynous Carices. 
32. AULACORHYNCHUS, Nees. 
Spikelets moneecious, the female axillary—Male: Glumes 
distichous, 4-5, papery-membranous, all except the lowest fer- 
tile. Stamens 3; anthers long, erect, cuspidate.—Female : 
Glumes as in the male, imbricate all round, 6-7, the lower all 
sterile, the uppermost alone fertile. Perianth 0. Style elon- 
gate, attenuate below, deeply 8-fid, with long, twisted, hispidu- 
lous branches ; base thick, 3-furrowed, persistent. Fruit utri- 
cular, roundish, obsoletely 3-angled, inflated, nerve-veined, 
beaked by the continuous style-base, the beak thick, deeply 
3-furrowed, obtuse, with a solid point.— Kunth, l. ec. p. 535. 
Male spikes many, tufted at the apex of the culm, subcapitate ; female 
distant, 1-2 in the axils of the leaves.—1 species. 
