375 



lata ovata acuta v. mucronata purpurea longioribus/ 1 

 Boott, Spec. nov. 137. Ejd< 111. 157. t. 514. 



fi. Humilis;' caespitosa; rhizomate elongato nodoso 

 duro stolonifero, fibrillis validis perlongis; eulmis pluri- 

 bus basi subdecumbentibus tenuibus sursum setaceis basi 

 foliosis in anthesi 4 — .2 poll, altis quam folia brevioribus; 

 his confertis ((> — 3 -pollic) rigidis recurvato -flexuosis 



longe augustato-aeumiuatis 1 — 5 /a ^ n * * at *5 spieis 7 — S 

 atropurpuren solitariis v. bmatis oblongis 8—5 Kb, long, 

 omnibus subcontiguis; bracteis inferioribus foliiformibus 

 vaginatis culnium subsuperantibus y superioribus *<juami~ 

 formibus arete amplectentibws lamina setacea brevi raargi- 

 nibus ciliata munitis ; pedunculis setaceis ad angulos 

 setulosis; spieulis 8—3 sessilibus, supreims (3—4) con- 

 fertis, reliquis parum remotis, primum ovato- oblongis, 

 acutis teretibus apice masculis, 4 lin. circ. longis; squa- 

 mis ])arvulis cbartaceis nitidis arete imhric&tis co??formibu$ f 

 orliculato-ocafis bremter aeutafis subrauticis lateribus atro- 

 purpureis, carina pallidiore; utrieulo juvenili exserto com- 

 presso-trigono ovali basi angustato, in rostrum latiusculum 

 ore oblique fissum attenuate, nervato scabriusculo superne 

 margine spinuloso-ciliato. — ■ Herb. Griffith, no 0094, 

 Afghanistan. 



184- C. scabrella Whlb. 



Pallide viridis; caespitosa; rhizomate elongato tenui 

 lignoso fuseo, fibrillis rigidis; culmis 12 — 5 poll, altis 

 •filiformi-setaceis rigidis superne acutangulk scabris, basi 

 vaginis ferrugineo-fuscis mox dissolutia vestitis ; foliis fir* 



mis parangustis culmo longioribm acute carmatis margine 



rcvolutis vix eemilineam latis; spieis 3— 5 parvulis e spi- 



