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I. Res io.— Inflorescence spicate or panicled. Male flowers dah outer 
ater eae -segments condu a carinate. Leaf-sheath pers 
If. Askidiosperma.—Jnjlorescen e densely 8 spicate; bracts seta so atures 
ss Aatiihigs cate lanceolate, pater Leaf-sheaths deciduo 
III. Dovea.—Male spikelets very numerous, panicled; female pikstite fewer. 
Male flowers a inner perianth-segments foaigaase ovary 3-celled. Leaf- 
sheaths deciduo 
Tribe 2. WILLDENOVIE. "Ovary paint l-celled. Fruit indehiscent. 
IV. Elegia.— Male nr Pg spikelets — mostly closely panicled ; 
Be ere usually deciduous. Flowers 3-sided ner wiorlai icasgriseds longest. 
Fruit 3-sided. Stig gmas pis Leaf-sheaths neni deciduous, 
Vv a1 aulos. — Spikelets numerous, panicled, Flowers co 
mpro 
ree, iedareec ee Ree ond 2. Fruit compressed, re fg outs 
n-b 
VI. Leptocarpus.—Male Je peng spikelets panicled. Flowers compressed ; 
outer perianth-segments longest; style short. Stigmas 3. Fruits 3-cornered. 
Leaf- — persistent. 
WER mnochortus.—Male seni numerous, panicled, Female spikelets 
fewer, poe cymose, many-flowered. Flowers apie i outer lateral 
perianth-segments deeply w atl ig “Fruit compressed, ses 
VIII. Hypolena.—Male spikiliese panicled, Female bee, or spicately 
cymose, 1-flow wers on a slender stalk, ie sessile ; perianth- 
segments subequal — sessile. 
ig Pg male spikelets similar, solitary, or spicately 
d female 
male @ mers solitary, on a thick, fleshy stalk. Ovary sessile, or 
stalked, 1- phen Fruit smooth or tubercled, generally raised on a fleshy- 
r stalk. 
a srs mois. Spikelets dissimilar. numerous, paniculate-cymose. 
pion ag jlowers Hae solitary or spicate. give 2. Fruit oblong, compressed , 
si] 
XI. Willden ovia.— Male and female spikelets very dissimilar. Males — 
paniculate, cymose; bracts loose. Female solitary, or two. Female flowe 
solitary. Frwit raised on a fleshy sta 
XII, he ge dm ag e and female injlorescence epi Male ae 
numerous, thyrs Female spikelets 2~3, spicate, each 1-flowere 
pert a pirtie birs aed acute. Female hyaline, meteor] Styles 2. Fruit 
ssil 
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BIFUL GEN 
XIII. Anthochortus, Nees on plant only tceten 
1, ee Linn. 
usually shorter, equal, ‘flat, membranous. laments 3, i taunt the 
emale flower: Perianth as in the male. Staminodes 3, or none. 
Ovary 2- or 3-celled; styles 2 or 3, united at the base, or free, 
sie solitary, pendulous, Fruit capsular, 2- or 3-celled, or by 
abortion l-celled. Seed 1 in each cell. 
fies al herbs throwing up stems from a tufted or sel? Leela covered 
at the base with sheathing leaves; stems terete, compressed, 0: sided, with 
remote rence leat-sheath usually more or less m oa “sometimes 
rolo into a linear, blunt leaf; male and female inflorescence similar, or 
dissimilar, inane spikes sak, or spikelets numerous, in spicate or panicled 
