Note 5 — MONOCOTYLEDONS
Reading edition
Herbs; stems cylindrical or trigonous, solid. Leaves grass-like, tough, but sheaths (except in Eriospora Schweinfurthiana) not slit down one side. Infl. umbellate, capitate or panicled, made up of spikes bearing spikelets composed of an axis (rhachilla) and of empty or flower-bearing bracts (glumes). Fl. minute, 1 or 2-sexual, in axils of glumes. Per. 0, or consisting of 2-6 hypogynous scales or bristles; sta. 1-3, anthers basifixed; style 2-3 branched, or subentire, base often thickened; fruit a compressed or 3-gonous nut.