GENERA AND SPECIES. 
Leptoearpus. 
Male spikelets small, numerous, dark brown, in a terminal 
panicle ; female spikelets few in a cylindrical spike; 
bracts ovate, obtuse; stems greyish bia ‘ 
Male spikelets large, few, almost ellipsoid, rich-brown on 
short filiform stalks; female inflorescence in a short 
spike-like panicle ; bracts acutely acuminate; stems 
pale-green ... : es ya he 
Calostrophus. 
Spikelets axillary all solitary and sessile; male spikelets 
2- to 4-flowered; leaves minute; stems slender, lax 
much branched 
Spikelets terminal; male spikelets in pa panicles ; Here 
spikelet comparatively large, solitary or rarely 2 or 3 
together ; leaves rudimentary; stems slender, much 
branched 
Lepidobolus. 
Stems simple, straight or flexuose; bracts oblong, 
acuminate with a short ray sepals ciliate; petals 
3, Narrower roa “ef ap : 
Sub-Class III.—Glumiferae. 
ORDER CYPERACEAE. 
1. Floral bracts in 2 straight rows (distichous). 
Fruit only one in each spikelet. (Also some species of 
Schoenus ). 
Hypogynous scales present; spikelet solitary, ter- 
minal, with 2 een a one female ; stamens 
tenax 
Brownti 
laterifiorus 
fastigiatus 
drapetocoleus 
33 stigmas 3 .. ity .. Lepidospora 
No hypogynous is or papels: siecle with 1 
or 2 flowers, only one female, clustered in a dense 
globular head within an involucre of leafy bracts 
Fruits more than one in each spikelet. 
Spikelets several-flowered, bisexual; one or two of 
the lowest bracts empty. Inflorescence spicate 
or umbellate with involucral bracts; no nYPOBY- 
Kyllingia 
nous scales or bristles; stigmas 2 or at, . Cyperus 
Spikelets 2- to 6-flowered, all fertile or the upper- 
most sterile, several outer bracts empty. 
Spikelets solitary or in capitate or paniculate 
clusters. Hypogynous bristles or scales present 
or wanting. Stigmas 3 
Schoenus 
