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Bristles divided into numerous segments longer than the 
glumes ......... 
Scales 3, relatively long, narrow, thin .... 
Blowers without bristles or scales. 
Style swollen at the base. 
Nut pointed ; style-base falling off .... 
Nut obtuse with the persistent style-base . 
Style not swollen at the base ; nut pointed . 
9. Eriophorum. 
10. Lipocarpha. 
6. Fimbristylis. 
7. Bulbostylis. 
8. Scirpus. 1 
B. Nut-bearing flowers without stamens 
Nut partially enclosed in a bract or utricle split nearly to its 
base on one side. . . . . . . .11. Kobresia. 
Nut wholly enclosed in a bag-like bract or utricle . .12. Carex. 
1. KYLLINGA. In honour of P. Kylling, a Dutch botanist 
of the seventeenth century. — All hot and temperate climates, 
except Europe. 
*Kyllinga squamulata, Vahl ; FI. Br. Ind. vi. 589. A nearly 
glabrous herb ; root fibrous ; stems tufted, erect, 2-12 in. 
Leaves mostly radical, often longer than the stem, J in. broad. 
Spikelets many, crowded in a green or brown, ovoid, terminal 
head \ in. diam. ; bracts 3, unequal, spreading. Glumes 4, in 2 
opposite series ; 2 lower minute, empty ; 2 upper large, acute, 
keels toothed, one containing a 2-sexual, fertile flower, the other 
e mpty or containing a male flower . Stamens 3 . Style 2 -branched . 
Nut flat, circular. The axis of the spikelet disarticulates in fruit 
just above the 2 lower glumes and falls off. 
Dalhousie to Garhwal, below 6000 ft. — Western India, Canara. — N. tropical 
Africa. 
2. PYCREUS. An anagram of Cyperus. in which genus the 
species are placed by most botanists. — Warm and temperate 
regions. 
Glabrous herbs ; stems erect or decumbent, leafy only near 
the base, except in P. sanguinolentus . Leaves not longer than 
the stem nor more than -J- in. broad. Spikelets usually numerous, 
linear, flattened, in clusters or short spikes at the end of the 
unequal rays of a terminal umbel, or sometimes the rays 
are suppressed when the inflorescence becomes capitate ; axis 
persistent in fruit ; bracts 3 or 4, unequal, spreading. Glumes 
green or brown, often streaked with red, in two opposite rows, 
two lowest empty, succeeding ones 2-sexual, uppermost 1-3 male 
or empty. Stamens 1-3. Ovary tapering gradually into the 
2-branched style. Nut flattened, circular or compressed-ovoid. 
Stems decumbent, lower third leafy . . . .1. P. sanguinolentus. 
Stems erect, leafy only at the base. 
Height less than 6 in. Stamen usually one . . 2. P. nitens. 
Height 10-18 in. Stamens usually 2 . . .'3. P. capillar is. 
1 In some species of Scirpus bristles are present, in others they are absent. 
