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tabescentes. Flos foemineus: gluma elliptica, involuta margini- 
bus basi connatis; stylus glaber, linearis, basi haud incrassatus. 
Nux cum rostro longa 22 mill., minute retieulata.— K. capillifolia 
differt bracteis astrictis, minus densis, nuce sublanceolata.— 
Kobresia schenoides, Henderson, Yarkand, p. 839. u. 372, est 
K. Royleana. 
Mts. Caucasus: fide Bieberstein. Regio Altaica: flumen Oka 
(Lurczaninow) ; Soongaria (Schrenk). Himalaya alpina: a 
Kashmir ad Sikkim, frequens (Jaequemont, nn. 1542, 1596 ; J. D. 
Hooker, &e.). 
4. K. NITENS, n. sp.: culmis rigidis; foliis canaliculato-com- 
plicatis ; spicis densis, ellipticis; bracteis ovatis, obtusis; nuce 
late obovoidea, obtusa, erostri. 
Culmi 1-2 dm., subeompressi. Folia cum culmis squilonga. 
Spice longe 14 cm., late 7 mm.; spicule inferiores androgyne ; 
flores in apice spice masculi. Bracteæ longe 5 mm., rotundatz, 
nitide castanee. Spicule androgyne 1-4-flore; flos imus foemi- 
neus, 1-8 superiores masculi aut summi tabescentes. Flos 
femineus: gluma elliptica, involuta, marginibus basi connatis; 
stylus vix ullus, aut saltem ab ipso ovario stigmatice flocculoso- 
scabridus. Nux longa 24 mm., lata 12 mm., apice truncata, 
erostris, a styli basi emarcido scabrido coronata, minute reticulata. 
—. schenoidi proxima, differt bracteis latioribus, nuce latiore 
erostri. 
Kashmir borealis, alt. 3500—4000 metr. (C. B. Clarke, nn. 
29697, 29840). 
Sect. b. CowPosrrx. Spicule in imis ramis spice 1-5 fasciculate 
aut congestim subpanieulate. (Spice omnino simplices haud 
raro obvie.) 
9. K. carrcrna (Willd. Sp. Pl.iv. p. 206) : culmis rigidis ; foliis 
planis aut convolutis; spicis densis, vix interruptis; bracteis 
ovatis, obtusis, rarius breviter mucronatis; nuce late oblonga 
apice subito angustata a rostro lineari parva coronata.—Schhuhr, 
Carex, Suppl. p. 1, tab. Rrr. fig. 161; Svensk. Bot. viii. tab. 527. 
fig. 2; Nees, Gen. vol. ii.; Reich. Cyper. p. 2, tab. 193; Benth. 
Handb. Brit. Fl. Illustr. ii. p. 904, fig. 1092; Syme, Eng. Bot. 
tab. 1609; Beck. in Linnea, xxxv. p. 5.—Cobresia caricina, Pers. 
Syn. ii. 534; Anderss. Oyper. Scand. 15.— Carex bipartita, Ailion. 
Fl. Pedem. ii. p. 265, tab. 89. fig. 5 (mala).—C. mirabilis, Host. 
