CLXxu. CYPBEAOBJ!. (C. B. Clarke.) 587 



Style-base thickened not passing gradually into the nnt . . 14. Etnohospoba. 



** StyU Z-fid. 



Lowest fertile gl. somewhat distant from the one above it. . 15. Schcbnus. 



Spikelets panicled, 1-7-fld., lowest fl. alone perfect .... 16. Ciadium. 



Spikelets 3-4-fld., uppermost fl. alone perfect 17. Mioeosch(ENUs. 



Spikelets 1-2-fld., uppermost fl. alone perfect ; hypog. scales 



long 18. Lbpidospeema. 



Spikelets 1-2-fld, as in 18, hypog. scales 19. Gahnia. 



Anomalous genus. 

 Spikelets sessile in dense digitate cylindric spikes ; glumes 4, 



3 empty, uppermost with a perfect flower 20. Remibba. 



B. HYPOLYTKBiE. BpiJcelets with one terminal fem. flower, two basal 

 opposite male glumes, and 0-9 intercalated monandrous or empty spirally 

 arranged glumes. 



Spikes corymbose ; style 2-fid 21. Hypolyteum. 



Spikes corymbose; style 3-fid 22. Thobacostaohyum. 



Spikes congested ; style 3-fid 23. Mapania. 



Spikes in an oblong panicle 24. Sciepodenseon. 



Spikes in a unilateral dense spiciform panicle . . 25. Lepibonia. 



C. ScLEEiE^. Bpilceleis 1-sexual or with one basal fem. flower and one 

 or more male or empty glumes. Nut stipitate, osseous. Sypogynous scales 

 or bristles 0. . . ' 26. Sclekia. 



D. Caeice^. SpiJcelets uni- or bisexual, moncebious or dioecious. 

 Nuts enclosed in an entire or 2-fid sac (utricle). 



Utricle split down one side 27. Kobeesia. 



Utricle entire or 2-fld at the tip only .... 28.. Cabex. 



1. KVZiXiXMeA, Rotfb. 



Stem erect, simple, leafy below only, terminated by 1-3 sessile capitate 

 spikes. Spikes ovoid or cylindric, dense, with numerous small compressed 

 spikelets. Glwmes 4-6, distichous, rhacheola disarticulating above the 

 two lowest which are empty ; gl. iii. bisexual ; gl. iv. male or empty, 

 rarely fertile; gl. v. rudimentary or (rarely additional upper glumes 

 occur). Stamens 1-3, anterior; anthers linear-oblong, muticous or nearly 

 %o. Nwt compressed laterally ; style linear, base continuous with nut ; 

 branches 2, linear. — Sp. 33 ; all hot and temp, regions except Europe. 



* Nut-bea/ring glume not winged in the upper half of its keel. 



1. K. triceps, Bottb. Descr. et Ic. 14, t. 4, fig. 6 {excl. cit. B/ieede) ; 

 nearly glabrous, rhizome very short, stem thickened at base, spikes 3-1 

 (rarely 4-5) subcylindrio whiteish, nut ultimately yellow-brown. Boxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 181 ; Nees in Wight Contrih. 91 ; Thw. Unum. 345 ; Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxxv. 413 (excl. voir. j3). K. monocephala, Neea in Wight Contrib. 

 91 (not of Bottb.). K. brevifolia ? Mb. Seyne.—Kjlliiigia., Wall. Gat. 3443. 

 I. Lipocarpha, Wall. Oat. 3445, poA-tly. 



Prom N.W. India and Sind to Benoal, Buema, and CEYiolf.— Disieib. 

 Africa, China, Austral. 



Stems 2-12 in., base tumid. Leaves as long (or half as long) as the stem, J-i in. 

 broad. Head J-J in. in diam. ; bracts 3-4, up to 2-3 in. Spikelets y^-fg in. 



