BENGAL PLANTS. [Artificial Guide 
**Base of style passing area into the fruit, perianth usually 
of scales or bristles :— 
Hypogynous scales 6, ecb to the base into linear segments 
1043. Eriophorum. 
Hypogynous scales, if any, undivided :— 
—!4 — Leaves hairy ; hypogynous oie 6, or 3, or 0 
1044. Fuirena. 
Leaves glabrous; hypogynous scales 7-1, or 0 1045. Scirpus. 
+Flowers interposed between a glume and a palea ; leaves distichous, 
isin. ee separating entirely from their pedicels, or falling 
with them; spikelets similar or differing in sex and structure; 
perfect spikelets with 2 heteromorphous florets, the upper herma- 
p the lower male or barren :— 
Rachis continued beyond upper ipiihelet glumes 4; spikelets 
1-2-flowered, subsecun tees this SR 4 hameraphis. 
§Spikelets usually in continuous ahha: sac racemes or ee ; 
glumes herbaceous or membranous, the lower smaller, some- 
n; 
firmer, at len rigid, often papery to crustaceous, 
rarely awned or mu ucronate :—[p. 35 
‘iSpikelets 2-flowe red, upper 2-sexual, lower male or neuter, 
rarely (Isachne) both fertile :—[p. 35 
ure spikelets surrounded singly or in clusters by a whorl 
_ of naked or plumose b: bristles which falls with the spikelets ; 
te beloiweid. cific: s 1047. Pennise 
Mature spikelets — — and singly from the tips of 
their Latieeiay styles f 
Spikelets with an ieee: of bristles......1048. Setaria. 
ake not subtended by bri stles ; 
Glumes 4, all very minute ; spikelets very numero 
and very small, crowded o capillary branches @ 
a very large panicle. Eh lena. 
Glumes 4, all cons 
minute or obsolete -— 
§Lowest — distinet MBit 
**Glumes I and II Separately deciduous ; spikelets. 
bibelohiag panicled [p, 35] 1051. Isachn 
plteoune or a conspicuous and 1 
