270 158. CYPERACEX. 
apice subito angustatus. Rostrum cum i-$ parte utriculi equi- 
longum, breviter 2-dentatum. 
SnuENsIr: Paokisan, Mt. Kifonsan (ugh!). Mus. Brit. 
3. Carex albomas, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. 
Hemiscaposa, preter utrieulos glabra. Culmi 5-7 unc. longi; 
vagine ime fimbriate, lente, fusco-brunes. Folia culmum 
sepe superantia, 13-2 lin. lata. Spice 1 unc. longs, distantes, 
terminalis mascula alba, femine: 2-8 albo-virides ; bractea ima 
inflorescentià brevior, 3-2 une. longa; pedunculus imus e vagina 
brevi breviter exsertus. Glume feminew parve, albi, longius 
viridi-aristate. Styli rami 3, longi, atro-rubri. Utriculus im- 
maturus ovoideus, apice attenuatus, pilosus; rostri dentes 2, 
longiuseuli, scabri. 
SHINGKING: Korean Gate (Ross, 57 !), Fungshan (Ross, 47 !). 
Moukden to Yaloo River (Webster !. Herb. Kew. 
These examples are all young, and are marked in hb. Kew as 
allied to C. precor, Jacquin, which is, I think, the true affinity 
of C. albomas : it differs from C. precoz, Jacq., in the distant, 
green, narrow female spikes and the large white male spike. 
In Nouv. Arch. Mus. sér. 3, ix. (1897) p. 186, Franchet has 
reduced three of his own species to C. precor, Jacq., which he 
makes a variable species universally distributed in Japan. None 
of this Japanese C. precor is the same as C. albomas ; I believe it 
all quite distinct frem C. precoz, Jacq., as it all has the bulbous 
style-base characteristic of so many Japan species of small Carex. 
But of this C. precov, Franchet, so universal in Japan, I find no 
example from China. 
4. Carex alliiformis, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. 
Culmus 5-17 une. Folia basalia plura, 7-20 une. longa, 
3-6 lin. lata, glabra. Spice 5-6, distantes, terminalis mascula 
2-1 une. longa, lj lin. lata, brunea; feminee 1-2 unc. longs, 
3 lin. late, juniores viridi-purpures, mature albe, imus in 
pedunculo 14-unciali suberectus; bractee foliiformes, 4-6 lin. 
Jate, inflorescentiam longe superantes. Glume feminee lan- 
ceolate acute, utriculos paullo superantes, in dorso virides in 
lateribus rubro-purpuree. Styli rami 3, longi. Utriculus 14- 
l4 lin. in diam., globosus, glaber, enervis, inflatus, maturus albi- 
papyraceus, in rostrum sublineare integrum subito angustatus. 
