286 158. CYPERACE X. 
This species is next C. Davidi, Franchet, of which it has the 
utriele. The male spike is much longer; the female glume is 
exaristate. 
48. Carex Forbesii, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. 
Culmi 14 une. longi, recti. Folia 9 unc. longa, 2L lin. lata, 
glabra. Spice 4, paullo distantes, rufo-brunez, 2 superiores 
maseule 1 unc. long, 21 lin. late, 2 inferiores femine: parum 
pedunculate 13 unc. longs, 4 lin. late; bractex filiformes, 
inflorescentiam paullo superantes. Glume feminee ovate, 
mucronate, in lateribus brunes, utriculis multo breviores. 
Stylus 3-fidus. Utriculus 21-3 lin. longus, ellipsoidei-conicus, 
suberostratus, coriaceus, glaber, obscure glanduloso-puberulus, a 
nervis numerosis striatus, ore breviter 2-dentato. JVua obovoidea, 
trigona, apice apiculata, basi substipitata. 
SuawTUNG: Chefoo (Forbes !). Herb. Kew. 
This has been arranged as a possible variety of C. pumila in hb. 
Kew, to which species it is closely allied. The long straight 
stems, the leaves being shorter than the stems, give it a different 
aspect, while the utricles are beakless with very numerous longi- 
tudinal striations. 
49. Carex Forficula, Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. ii. (1879) 
pp. 131, 557 ; Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. sér. 3, ix. (1897) 
pp. 135, 160, viii. t. 8. fig. 2; Palibin, Fl. Koree, iii. p. 22. 
Carex notha, Baker et S. Moore, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Dot. xvii. (1880) 
p. 989, non Kunth. 
Carex notha, var., Boott, M S. 
SurNGKING: Kwandien Mts. (Loss, 75 !) ; Suenst: Mt. Miao- 
wangsan (Hugh!); Corea (Kalinowski) Mus. Brit.; Herb. 
Kew. 
Japan, abundant. 
C. notha, Kunth, is very like C. Forficula, but has the utricle 
nerved, its wall dotted over by transparent ferruginous elliptie 
glands sunk in the utricle-wall, its beak shorter. 
50. Carex gentilis, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, sér. 8, 
vii. (1895) p. 84, et Nouv. Arch. Mus. sér. 3, viii. (1896) pp. 246, 
260, t. 4. fig. 2; Diels, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. (1900) p. 230. 
Kranest: Kiukiang Mts. (Faber, 1188!); Yunnan: Tceheng- 
fongehan Mts. (Delavay!). Herb. Kew. 
