42^ CXLI. CYPERACEiK. 



plumose-pubescent, persistent bristles. Stamens 3. Style 

 3-fid, pyramid-thickened at base. Achene 3-angled, crowned 

 or beaked by the style-base and girt by the bristles. — Kunth, 

 Z.c.^. 311. 



Coarse-growing, pale sedges, with 3-angled, leafy culms. Leaves rigid, flat 

 but keeled. Panicles or thyrsi axiUary or terminal ; spikelets solitary or 

 capitate.— 3 Cape species. 



22. SCLEROCH^TIUM, Nees. 



Spikelets 2-flowered, upper bisexual, lower male. Grlumes 

 imbricate on all sides, keeled, lower empty, subulate-awned. 

 Perianth of 6 short, cartilaginous, pilose bristles. Stamens 3. 

 Style 3-fid, equal at base. Achene stalked, 3-angled, girt by 

 the short bristles. — Kunth, I. c. p. 320. 



Culms tall, sub-3-gonous, leafy. Leaves narrow linear, keeled, rigid. 

 Panicle terminal, branched, leafy, nodding; spikelets tufted, bracteate; 

 bracts long, awned. — 2 species. 



23. CYATHOCOMA, Nees. 



Spikelets 1- flowered. Grlumes distichous, the lower smaller, 

 empty. Stamens 5-6 ; anthers mucronate. Perianth mem- 

 branous, tubular, bearing 6 capillary bristles, as long as the 

 pistil. Style deeply 3-fid, its base thickened, continuous with 

 the 3-angular ovary. — Kuntli, I. c. p. 322. 



Culm jointed, fragile at the joints, rigid. Leaves very rouglily serrulate. 

 Spikelets in axillary, 2-fid, flexuous spikes. — 2 species. 



24. CHJETOSPORA, E. Br. 



Spikelets 1-5 -flowered, all bisexual. Grlumes distichous, 

 the lower smaller, empty. Perianth of 3-0 scabrous or plu- 

 mose bristles. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid,' equal at base, deci- 

 duous. Achene 3-angled, more or less tipped with the per- 

 sistent style-base, girt wdth the bristles. — Kuntli, I. c. p. 323. 



Culms leafy at base. Leaves setaceous, channelled or flat. Spikelets 

 tufted or subcapitate, rarely axillary and terminal. — 6 Cape species. 



25. HEMICHLiENA, Schrad. 



Spikelets several- (5-9-) flowered, all bisexual. Grlumes dis- 

 tichous, boatshaped, keeled, 1-2 lower empty. Perianth 0. 

 Stamens 3. Style 3-fid, equal at base, deciduous. Achene 

 flat inside, convex-angled without, scarcely umbonate, sitting 

 in an irregularly lobed, turbinate disk. — Kunth, I. c. p. 330. 



Culms simple or branched, leafy. Spikes terminal, soHtary or several m 

 a tuft. Glumes brown. — 3 Cape species. 



