CLXXII. CYPEBACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 587 



Style-base thickened not passing gradually into the nut . . 14. ETNCHOSPOEA. ? ..." a 

 ** Style -fid. - 



Lowest fertile gl. somewhat distant from the one above it. . 15. SCHCENUS. 



Spikelets panicled, 1-7-fld., lowest fl. alone perfect .... 16. CLADIUM. 



Spikelets 3-4-fld., uppermost fl. alone perfect 17. MICEOSCHCENUS. 



Spikelets 1-2-fld., uppermost fl. alone perfect ; hypog. scales 



long 18. LEPIDOSPEBMA. 



Spikelets 1-2-fid, as in 18, hypog. scales 19. GAHNIA. 



Anomalous genus. . 

 Spikelets sessile in dense digitate cylindric"tepikes ; glumes 4, 



3 empty, uppermost with a perfect flower 20. REMIBEA. 



!B. HYPOLYTIIE^E. Spikelets with one terminal fern, flower, two basal 

 opposite male glumes, and 0-9 intercalated. monandrous or empty spirally 

 arranged glumes. 



Spikes corymbose; style 2 -fid . . > . . .21. HYPOLTTRUM. 

 Spikes corymbose; style 3-fid . . . . . 22. THOBACOSTACHYUM. 

 Spikes congested ; style 3-fid . . . . .23. MAPANIA. 



Spikes in an oblong panicle 24. SCIBPODENDBON. 



Spikes in a unilateral dense spiciform panicle . . 25. LEPIBONIA. 



C. SCLEBIE.E. Spikelets 1-sexual or. with one basal fern, flower and one 

 or more male or empty glumes. Nut stipitate, osseous. Hypogynous scales 

 or bristles 26. SCLEBIA. 



D. CARICEJE. Spikelets uni- or bisexual, mono3cious or dioecious. 

 Nuts enclosed in an entire or 2-fid sac (utricle). 



Utricle split down one side 27. KOBBESIA. 



Utricle entire or 2-fTcl at the tip only . . '. . i 28. CABEX. 



1. KYXiIiXNGA, Rotfb. 



Stem erect, simple, leafy below only, terminated by 1-3 sessile capitate 

 spikes. Spikes ovoid or cylindric, dense, with numerous small compressed 

 spikelets. Glumes 4-5, distichous, rhacheola disarticulating above the 

 two lowest which are empty ; gl. iii. bisexual ; gl. iv. male or empty, 

 rarely fertile ; gl. v. rudimentary or (rarely additional upper glumes 

 occur). Stamens 1-3, anterior; anthers linear-oblong, muticous or nearly 

 so. Nut compressed laterally ; style linear, base continuous with nut ; 

 branches 2, linear. Sp. 33 ; all hot alid temp, regions except Europe. 



* Nut-bearing glume not winged in the upper half of its Jceel. 



1. K. triceps, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 14, t. 4, fig. 6 (excl. cit. Rheede) ; 

 nearly glabrous, rhizome very short, stem thickened at base, spikes 3-1 

 (rarely 4-5) subcylindric whiteish, nut ultimately yellow-brown. Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 181; Nees in Wight Contrib. 91; Thw. Enum. 345; Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxxv. 413 (excl. var. /3). K. monocephala, Nees in Wight Contrib. 

 91 (not of Rottb.). K. brevifolia ? Hb. Heyne. Kyllingia, Wall. Gat. 3443. 

 I. Lipocarpha, Wall. Gat. 3445, partly. 



From N.W. INDIA and SIND to BENGAL, BUBMA, and CEYLON. DISTBIB. 

 Africa, China, Austral. 



Stems 2-12 in., base tumid. Leaves as long (or half as long) as the stem, -|- in. 

 broad. Head ~% > in diam. ; 'bracts 3-4, up to 2-3 in. Spikelets 



