150 CYPERACE (Clarke). 
VI. Eleocharis.—Stem leafless, with one terminal spikelet 
VII. Fimbristylis. amon war kal — 0. Style- — “constricted above the 
nut, persistent, or deciduous w t leaving a butt 
WE, artes is.—Style ng "athe a Gurion on the nut; otherwise as 
tmbri. 
18. dairvie. —style Leanna gradually pe continuously into the 
X. Eriophorum.—Hypogynous pie t, divided nearly to the piety appearing 
very ip aaewas as Sci 
XI. Pine —Ova ary 00 @ more dlatinet obpyramidal gynophore ; otherwise as 
xm. Puss. —Spikelets conspicuously hairy ; otherwise as Scirpu 
XIII, Lipocarpha.— Hypo ceynons scales 2, hyaline, standing fore saa aft within 
Sci : 
XIV. Ascolepis.—Hypogynous scale 1, posticous, within the glume and longer 
than it, thickened upwards, almost enveloping the nut; otherwise as Scirpus. 
aoe 3. SCHOENEZ. Empty alvne? a the base of the spikelet usually 
e than 2; fertile glumes few, very ofte 
* Style ae 
XV. Bynchospora.— Branches of style 2, long linear, or exceedingly short (style 
then nearly entire). 
** Style 3-fid. Fertile glumes, and empty glumes below them, more or less 
2-ranked. 
age — —Lowest flower perfecting a nut. Hypogynous bristles 6, long, 
XVII. “Eeklones, Ps inl eg bristles feathered at the base, 3-fid at top; 
Ca: 
XVIII. | ache Lowe flower perfecting a nut. Rhachilla above perfect 
flower lengthen 
IX. Epischoen aa flower (or 2 tee flowers) not perfecting a nut. 
Rhachilla aes the perfect flower lengthe 
XX. Cos ia.—Lowest flower male. Whachilla not elongated above the 
fertile flower. 
.. Tetraria.—Lowest flower with a pistil that does not perfect a rd: other- 
wise as Costularia. (In T. cuspidata, the lowest flower perfects a ut. ] 
*#* Style 3-fid. Glwmes spirally placed. Lowest flower perfecting a nut. 
XXII. Macrochnetium.—Hypogynous bristles long. Stamens 6. 
XXIII. Cladium.—Hypogynous bristles 0 (in the Cape sp. Ye Samba 3-2. 
Sub-O rder II. Mapanrex. Spikelet of one viene a flower without 
aperianth. Lower glwmes, some with 1 stamen, some e 
XXIV. Chrysithrix.—Style long linear; branches 3. aie next outside the 
pistil empty. 
Sub-Order III. Caricex. Flowers all l-sexual. Spikelets 1-sexual oF 
2-sexual; if bisexual then consisting of 1 basal female flower, and 1 or maby 
upper male fimerd: 
XXV. Seleria.—Spikelet as or clustered. Hypogynous bristles 0. Nut 
bony, ios on a gyno 
XXVL. Eriosp Bie hres se crowded in small Scirpus-like spikes. Hypogynows 
bristles i <hoe Nut small, not oy Sy _— 
XXVII. Schoenoxiphium.—Nué enc met by a bott gti bract, peared split 
down, often wnkainlag a rhachilla or a male spike. No comple’ ete utricles. 
XXVIII. Carex.—Nut ee enclosed in a utricle. [In several andro- 
n 
gynous species the utricle is split down in such pete as have the upper male 
portion or its y daachitia "hallg developed. | 
