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drooping ; spikelets almost scattered, turgid ; lower floral 

 bracts usually pointed ; stamens three or more ; fruit 

 turgidly ovate, shining, long retained by the elongated 

 stamens. 



(Cladium erythrocarpum.) G. erythrocarpa. 



Well-matured fruit brownish or black ... 1933 



1933. Fruit brownish. 



Very tall, densely tufted ; stems leafy, many ; leaves very 

 long, channelled, rough, much narrowed and recurved at 

 the upper end ; panicle ample and much elongated, partly 

 drooping ; spikelets almost scattered, turgid ; lower floral 

 bracts usually blunt ; stamens from four to six ; stigmas 

 three, generally bifid ; fruit turgidly ovate, long retained 

 by the elongated stamens. 



(Cladium psittacorum. ) G. psittacoram. 



Fruit shining-black. 



Tall, tufted ; stems leafy, cylindrical ; leaves very long, 

 channelled, much narrowed upwards, rough ; panicle long ; 

 spikelets rather small, the ultimate somewhat clustered ; 

 stamens usually three ; stigmas three, undivided ; fruit 

 very small, turgidly ovate, long retained by the elongated 

 stamens. 



(Cladium melanocarpum.) G. melanocarpa. 



1934 Leaves filiform or compressed-cylindrical ... ... 1935 



Leaves quite flat or along the margin incurved ... 1936 

 1935. Stems and leaves filiform, somewhat hard. 



Rather tall; stems slender, cylindrical, as well as the scanty 

 leaves grooved on one side ; panicle rather contracted, 

 distantly branched ; spikelets scattered ; bracts pointed ; 

 stamens and stigmas three ; fruit turgidly ovate, often 

 shining-whitish and long retained by the elongated 

 stamens. (Cladium Gunnii ) G. Gunnii. 



Stems and leaves compressed-cylindrical, somewhat 

 soft. 



Rather tall ; steins cylindrical, hardly firm ; leaves mostly 

 basal and elongated, occasionally across-partitioned, some- 

 times hardly compressed ; floral leaves abbreviated ; 

 panicle moderately spreading or contracted, the spikelets 

 much clustered ; floral bracts fringed ; stamens and stigmas 

 three ; fruit ovate-ellipsoid. 



(Cladium glomeratum. ) G. glomerata. 



