BENGAL PLANTS. [Artificial Guide 
Intermediate hermaphrodite — few, not more numerous © 
than the 2 or more lowest empty :— 
Style 2-fid ; perianth of 6 cee bristles 
1030. Ame 
Style 3-fid ; perianth 0 Cla i 
Intermediate hermaphrodite glumes ane many, it: more — 
numerous than the 1-2 lowest empty : a 
Flowering glumes distichous; perianth 0:— + 
Rachilla of spikelet deciduou 1032. Kyllinga. 
ruit laterally compressed.................. 1033. Pycreus. 
Fruit dorsally compressed 1034, Juncellus. — 
uit trigonous 1035. Cyperus. — 
Flowering glumes spirally arranged :— 
Base of style co: cted or articulate above the fruit : 
Stem Sishiai ence of bristles......1038. Eleocharis : 
Stem leafy below; perianth 0 :— io 
si rage persisting, or if deciduous not leaving a 
tumour it :-— 
Sian separable from the moh 3 
039. Fimbristylis. 
Grames persistent on the mil s 
wnat : 
Style. base deciduous, leaving a a — the fru 5 
. Bul Siecisti 
Base of style passing gradually into ri Ph perianth 
usually of scales or bristles :— 
Hypogynous scales 6, divided to the base into linear : 
segments iophorum. 
Hypogynous scales, if present, undivided :-— 
Leaves hairy ; hypogynous scales 6, or 3, or 0 : 
1044, Fuirena. 
Leaves glabrous; hypogynous scales 7-1, or 0 : 
1045. Scirpus. — 
}Perianth conspicuous, in two whorls of 3 each :—[p. 26 ‘ 
Perianth segments in two dissimilar whorls; staminodes 4; leaves | 
thin 976 ua 
eS segments all similar, corolline; staminode be 
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