The genera of South African plants : arranged according to the natural system / by William Henry Harvey.

  • William H. Harvey
Date:
1868
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Credit: The genera of South African plants : arranged according to the natural system / by William Henry Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plumose-pubescent, persistent bristles. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid, pyramid-thickened at base. Achene 3-angled, crowned or beaked by the style-base and girt by the bristles.—Kuntli, 1. c.p. 311. Coarse-growing, pale sedges, with 3-angled, leaiy culms. Leaves rigid, flat but keeled. Panicles or thyrsi axillary or terminal; spikelets solitaiy or capitate.— 3 Cape species. 22. SCLEROCH^TIUM, Nees. Spikelets 2-flowered, upper bisexual, lower male. Gllumes imbricate on all sides, keeled, lower empty, subulate-awned. Perianth of G short, cartilaginous, pilose bristles. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid, equal at base. Achene stalked, 3-angled, girt by the short bristles.—Kuiith, 1. c. p. 320. Culms tall, 8ub-3-gonou8, leafy. Leaves narrow linear, keeled, rigid. Panicle terminal, branched, leafy, nodding; spikelets tufted, bracteate; bracts long, uwned.—2 species. 23. CYaTHOcOMA, Nees. Spikelets 1-flowered. Glumes distichous, the Iomw smaller, empty. Stamens 5-G; anthers mucronate. Perianth mem- branous, tubular, bearing G capillary bristles, as long as the pistil. Style deeply 3-fid, its base thickened, continuous with the 3-angular ovary.—Kunth, 1. c. p. 322. Culm jointed, fragile at the joints, rigid. Leaves very roughly serrulate. Spikelets in axillary, 2-fid, flexuous spikes.—2 species. 24. CHiETOSPORA, E. Br. Spikelets 1-5-flowered, all hisexual. Glumes distichous, the lower smaller, em])ty. Perianth of 3-G scabrous or plu- mose bristles. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid, equal at base, deci- duous. Achene 3-angled, more or less tij^ped with the per- sistent style-base, girt with the bristles.—Kuntli, 1. c. p. 323. Culms leafy at base. Leaves setaceous, channelled or flat. Spikelets tufted or subcapitate, rarely axillary and termiual.—6 Cape species. 25. HEMICHL.ENA, Schrad. Spikelets several-(5-9-) flowered, all bisexual. Glumes dis- tichous, boatshaped, keeled, 1-2 lower empty. Perianth 0. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid, equal at base, deciduous. Achene flat inside, convex-angled without, scarcely umbonate, sitting in an irregularly lobed, turbinate disk.—Kuntli, 1. c. p. 330. Culms simple or branched, leafy. Spikes terminal, solitary or several hi a tuft. Glumes brown.—3 Cape species.