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lateribus fuseo - ferrugineis margine pellueido pallidis : 

 foemineis remotis patentibus, masculis perdense imbricatis ; 

 utriculis paten tibus tenui - membranaceis squama parum 

 longioribus l'/a Hn. long, ovalibus obtuse triangulis stipi- 

 tatis breviter rostratis, rostro recto v, leviter recurvato 

 ore bidentato, nervosis margins superne spinulosis, viridi* 

 bus v. ferruginosis; caryopsi perarcte inelusa ovaJi trian- 

 gular! apicata, lateribus castanea punctulata nitida, an- 

 gulis prominentibus apiculoque pallidiore. — Griffith, hb* 

 no. 6055. 



Himalaja oriental. 



148. C. pule bra Boott. 



Culmo tenui firrno J / 2 — i-pedali foliato trigono laevi; 

 foliis angmtis ( 3 / 4 lin, lat) firmis carinatis, superne mar- 

 ginibus carina que scabridis; panicula strictiuscula laxa 

 continuu e fasciculis ramorum 5 — 3 formata, — 4 poll. 



aft a i rhachi prim aria gracili laevi;. pedunculis saepiss. 

 pluribus exsertis rectis eppillaribm Jaecibus^ v. simplicibus 

 monostacbyis v. nno alterove composifco decompositove; 

 bracteis foliaceis vaginantibus paniculam plerumque super- 

 antibus ; bracteolis ocftrejformibus, lamina setacea subelon- 

 gain; spiculis fasciculatis inaequalibus graeiilimis Knearibus 

 flexuosis laxis IY3— V2 poll, long,, mprema longtore andro- 

 gyna (v. basi v. summo aut interdum omnino maseula) ? 

 reliquk foeminek; squamis parvis remotis rufis basi am- 

 plectentibus lanceolato-ovatis acutiusculis carinatis inter- 

 dum mueronulatis ? apiee hyalino- pallidis. — „Perigyniis 

 parvis ovalibus triquetris rostratis, ore albo hyalino obli- 

 quOj enerviis nitidis glabris." Boott. 



