158. CYPERACE X. 277 
the female glume has usually a long green arista, but sometimes 
the glume is acute or hardly mueronate; the spikes are usually 
approximate, the bract to the lowest spike much overtopping the 
inflorescence, but sometimes the lowest spike is somewhat distant 
and the bract short. From these variations, Booth and Franchet 
each constructed several species. But the material having now 
increased, Franchet has reduced the whole to C. breviculmis, 
R. Br. 
The species, in its characteristic state, with long bracts, is not 
very like C. pisiformis, Boott ; but the examples with short bracts, 
and glumes but little aristate, can hardly be distinguished from 
C. pisiformis but by their small, slender, subsessile male spike. 
17. Carex brevicuspis, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. 
Fusco-viridis. Folia 2-pedalia, 3-4 lin. lata, fere glabra. 
Culmi 12-16 unc. longi. Bractee inflorescentiam non superantes. 
Spice 4, distantes, terminalis omnino mascula pedunculata 1 unc. 
longa, i unc. lata, rufo-brunea. Spica feminea 2 unc. longa, 
3-4 lin. lata, fusco-viridis. Glume feminem utriculis sub- 
breviores, anguste lanceolatz 8-nerviz, apice acuminate lineares, 
vix mucronate. Stylus 3-fidus. Utriculus globosus, subinflatus, 
olivaceus, multistriatus, fere glaber, in rostrum subito con- 
tractus; rostrum lineare, cum utriculi corpore subequilongum, 
apice brevi-2-euspidatum. Nus trigona ; rostro cylindrico, pravo 
(nuci C. tenebrose simillima). 
Kriawesr: Kiukiang (Maries! Shearer!); CHextane: Ningpo 
Mountains (Faber, 62!). Herb. Kew. 
18. Carex Brownii, T'uckerm. Enum. Caric. (1849) pp. 15, 21; 
Boott, Carex, p. 161, t. 532; Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. 
ii. p. 578; Boeck. in Linnea, xh. (1877) p. 151; Franch. in 
Nouv. Arch. Mus. sér. 3, x. (1898) pp. 49, 96; Palibin, FI. 
Korea, iii. p. 22, syn. C. lacistomate excl. 
Carex striata, R. Br. Prodr. p. 243; Drejer, Symb. Caricol. p. 28, t. 15; 
Kunth, Enum. Pl ii. p. 458; non Mich. 
Carex ringens, Boott, in Mem. Amer, Acad. n. s. vi. (1859) p. 419; 
Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. ii. p. 149. 
Carex bulbosa, Boott, MS. 
Corra: Chusan (Wilford, 926!). Herb. Kew. 
Japan, Australia. 
