342 CYPERACEZA. [ KytimeGa. 
thickened slightly acuminate apex. Stamens 1-2. Nut ellipsoid 
= in. in length, surmounted by a 2-armed style 75 in. long. 
Delhi (Royle), Agra (Jameson), Ajmer (Lowrie), Bundelkhand (Duthie), 
Etawa (Duthie), Moradabad (Thomson), Kheri (Inayat), Pilibhit 
(Inayat), Haldwani (Parker). Distrre.:.Kashmir to Burma and 
Ceylon, and most warm regions except S. Europe. . 
This plant is exceedingly like Scirpus Michelianus, Linn. but the 
flowers are distichous, in 8. Michelianus the flowers are spirally 
arranged and the nut oblong or fusiform. 
4, KYLLINGA, Rottb.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 587. 
Perennial erect herbs, tufted or with horizontally running 
rhizomes which are sometimes very slender and much branched. 
Each stem leafy below and terminated by 1 to 3 sessile heads 
forming spikes usually composed of numerous closely crowded 
spikelets. Each spike or group of spikes is accompanied by 3 or 
4 or many: usually unequal, leaf-like bracts. Spukelets spirally 
arranged, compressed laterally to the run of the spiral of 4 or 5 
glumes arranged in 2 ranks. The lowest 2 glumes empty, rela- 
tively small, often hyaline and the disarticulation of the spikelet 
takes place above their insertion. The third glume contains a 
perfect flower of 1 to 3 stamens and an ovary. The fourth and 
fifth glumes are empty or the former may contain a male or rudi- 
mentary flower. The third and fourth glumes the largest of the 
spikelet, boat-shaped with usually a well-marked and sometimes 
winged and ciliated or serrulated keel. Nut laterally compressed 
and abruptly passes above into a style which has no swollen base 
but divides above into 2 linear arms. Species about 60, in all 
hot and temperate regions except Europe. 
Plant tufted, with very short and not horizon- 
tally running rhizomes; older leaf-sheaths 
fibrous . : : : : } 2/1. K. triceps. 
Plant with elongated, generally slender, hori- 
zontally running rhizomes; leaf-sheaths not 
fibrous. 
Nut-bearing glume not winged on the upper 
part of the keel. ° : : 2. K. brevifolia. 
Nut bearing glume with a well-developed 
wing on the upper part of the keel . . 3. EK. monocephala. 
