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Calyx equally 5-lobed ; corolla subequally 
5-lobed; ovary 2-celled; stamens 2-celle 
cells divaricate .......+. 721. Stachytar arpheta. 
Calyx 2-lipped; corolla er or indis- 
tinetly 2- mit ovar 
Stamens h 2 aan inte perfect 
cells ; cial bdeerety 2-lipped 
757. Meriandra. 
Stamens with only the posterior cell perfect, 
the anterior imperfect or obsolete ; corolla 
markedly 2-lipped ...+++++++-+++" 758. Salvia. 
Class II]. TRIANDRIA. 
*Flowers arranged in spikelets in the axils of glumaceous bracts ; leaves 
-oo 
+Flowers in the axil of a simple glume, leaves 3-stichous or only basal, 
sometimes 0, the sheaths closed in front; fruit a minute nut with 
pps inside the albumen; style simple with 2-3 stigmas :—[p- 
mediate hermaphrodite glumes few, not more numerous than 
oe 9 or more oan ene ee 
Style 2-fid ; peria pog) pristles...1030. Rynchospora. 
jorinall 0 
Intermediate hermaphrodite glumes usually many, always more 
numerous than the 1-2 whe oh sgitates — 
Flowering glumes distichou: 
le 2-fid; rachilla of cpikelot deciduous ...--- 1032. Kyllinga. 
Style 3-fid, very rarely (Cyperus § Anosporum) subentire and 
chilla of spikelet persistent ...-.-...-+++++-++* 1035. Cyperus. 
Rachilla of spikelet deciduous : 
Fruit- bearing glumes not dinigek fruit rather broad 
1036. 
Fruit-bearing glumes winged ; fruit very narrow 
1037. Courtoisia. 
Flowering glumes spirally arr ged: 
**Base of style articulate or constrite sgh se fruit:—[p- 34] 
Stem leafless ; perianth 0 of bristles...----+- . Eleocharis. 
Stem leafy below; perian 
Style-base panes 
on the fetitac.-. cane Coe 
Style-base er leaving a tumour on 
anth 0:— 
or if deciduous not leaving a tumour 
1039. Fimbristylis. 
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