3 
2. Basal Snty scales of the spikelets 
30rm 
Style - cleft, its base persistent 
asa tubercle on the achene 
Bristles none; culm monoce- 
phalous 10. Dichromena 
Bristles usually present ; culm 
usually polycephalous 11. Rynchospora 
ae 3-cleft, its base fused with 
top of the achene 12. Cladium 
B. Flowers all ie a monoecious or di- 
oecious sedge 
Pistillate Sees subtended by a scale; 
achene bon 13. Scleria 
Pistillate flowers enclosed by a perigy- 
nium (utricle 
A long pater cae bristle protruding from 
the perigyniu 14. Uncinia 
No hooked bristle 15. Carex 
1. KYLLINGA, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 2. 1773. 
‘Rootstock short or none; culms tufted 
Fertile scale of the spikelet setulose on 
the keel 1. K. pumila 
pope scale of the spikelet smooth on the 
eel 
2. K. odorata 
Rootstock elongated ; culms not tufted 
af-blades short or elongate 
Leaf-blades short, acute 3. K. pungens 
Leaf-blades long, attenuate 4. K. brevifolia 
Leaves reduced to sheaths 5. K. peruviana 
Type species, Kyllinga monocephala, Rottb. 
I. KYLLINGA PUMILA, Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. I: 28. 1803. 
Roadside ditch, Stony Hill (Britton 832). Widely distributed in 
temperate and tropical America. 
2. KYLLINGA ODORATA, Vahl, sag - 382. 1806. 
— triceps, Griseb. Fl. Br. . 568. 1866. Not Rottb. 
In a lawns at Castleton Gardens (Britton 834); Temple Hall 
(Harris 9390). Previously collected in Jamal y W. Wright. 
Widely distributed in warm and tropical uence. 
3. KYLLINGA PUNGENS, Link, Hort. Berol. I: 326. 1827. 
Banks and along roads at higher elevations. Near Silver Hill 
Gap (Maxon 1124); Cinchona (Shreve; Harris 9501); Morce’s Gap 
(Britton 217); Hardware Gap (Nichols 104). Not hitherto re- 
corded from Jamaica. 
4. KYLLINGA BREVIFOLIA, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 13. 1773- : 
Kyllinga monocephala, Thunb. FL Jap. 35- 1784- Not Rottb. 
an (Harris 9496, 9498). Marsh 
In moist ground, common. Cinchona (Harris 9499, 
near Balaclava ( (Marble Shige Grisebach in Flora per bedi 
Indies attributes both K. brevifolia, Rottb. and K. monocephala. 
Rottb. to Jamaica but the latter is purely an Old World species, 
