1128 BENGAL PLANTS. 
sheaths. tubular and more or less closed, or those of the lower 
leaves split to the base; ligule 0 or a faint prolongation of the 
mouth of Si sheath opposite the blade. Flowers minute, her- 
maphrodite or 1-sexual, in the axils of glumes of a spikelet 
ace or of the ra -like bracts of a spike ; spikelets of 
Cyp spikes of remaining tribes, composed of small, imbricating, 
seo or spirally imbricating scales (glumes or bracts), dis- 
pos ascicles, panicles, or spikes, or solitary. Perianth 0 or 
of 6. or more hypogynous pastes or scales, rarely (Carez) a utricle 
enclosing the Snag Stamens 1-8; filaments flattened ; anthers 
basifixed, Ovary 1- iad style short or long; stigmas 
2-3; ovule ma ae erect, anatropous. Fruit a compressed or 
trigonous nut. Seed erect, free; embryo minute within the base 
of the floury albumen. 
Ovary and fruit enclosed in a bottle-shaped utricle with an entire or ~ 
notched or shortly slit mouth Carex. 
Ovary and fruit not enclosed in an utricle: 
seeana with a terminal ¢ flower and 1 with two basal opposite 3 
glumes 
Saker. corymbose; style 2-fid... ..eiioicawa tn A. Hypolytrum. 
Spikes in an oblong panicle ; eg 3-branched . ..... Seirpodendron. 
Spikelets with the terminal fiower not ¢ :— 
Spikelets 1-sexual or with a ee sal ¢ flower and 1 or more ¢ OF 
empty glumes ; fruit stipitate, bony; scales or bristles 0 :— 
umes entire, with one median vein .. .Scleria. 
Gis mes 3- Sd, with 5-7 strong veins _Diplacrum. 
Spikelets with the lower glumes pepe empty, intermediate glumes. 
t or empty :-— 
¢ and uppermost ¢ or imperfec 
Intermediate ¢ glumes few, not more numerous than the 2-mor 
lowest —— ; uppermost empty and thinner than the tsiennailet 
glumes : 
Style 9-fid alent bristles usually 6 ...... a ee 
Style 3-fid ; hypogynous bristles 0 ..Cladium. 
ee te ¢ avaiches usually many, always more numerous 
n the 1-2 lowest empty ; — ost ¢ or an eee or empty, 
da similar to the intermediate glumes (CypEREX) :— 
*Flowering glumes distichous ; ais or Lethtlon 0 :—{p. 1129] 
+Style 2-fid :—{p. 1129 
Rachilla of spikelet deciduous Kyllinga- 
of spikelet persistent’:— 
sis 
