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CYFER,ACEAE. 



502. Fruit one only in each spikelet ... ... ... 503 



Fruits more than one in each spikelet ... 511 



503. Floral bracts arranged fascicularly. 



Spikelets changed into fascicles and crowded into a sessile 

 globular infra-terminal cluster ; several of the involucral 

 bracts empty; the two outermost floral bracts of each 

 spikelet opposite, navicular ; stamens six or more in each 

 spikelet, every stamen supported by a floral bract ; pistil 

 central, solitary ; stigmas two or three ; fruit longi- 

 tudinally streaked by several prominent lines. 



Chorizandra. 1920 



Floral bracts forming one or more rows ... 504 



504. Bracts few, forming one imperfect row or reduced to 



two in number ... ... ... ... 505 



Bracts in more than one row... ... ... ... 506 



505. Spikelet one, terminal, rarely accompanied by another. 



Alpine dwarf plants, forming dense patches ; leaves 

 crowded into two rows, short, rigid, pointed ; spikelets 

 producing only one flower ; bracts two or three, rarely 

 four ; sepals three and petals three, changed into scale- 

 like organs ; stamens three ; style thin throughout ; 

 stigmas three. Oreobolus. 1921 



Spikelets few or several. 



Spikelets producing two flowers, one of them only pistil- 

 late ; bracts usually four ; sepals and petals changed 

 into long bristlets ; stamens generally two ; base of style 

 enlarged, long persistent ; stigmas three. 



Cyatochaete. 1922 



506. Bracts in few spiral rows ... 507 



Bracts in two straight rows ... ... ... ... 509 



507. Branches mostly flexuous or revolute. 



Rigid plants of restiaceous aspect; leaves only rudimentary; 

 spikelets singly terminating the branches, producing two 

 flowers, only one of them pistillate ; bracts six or fewer ; 

 stamens three to six ; base of style much enlarged, per- 

 sistent ; stigmas three. Oaustis. 1923 



