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Soongaria: Mts. Alatau (fide Karelin et Kirilow). Kashmir: 
Pir Pinjul, alt. 3000 metr. (C. B. Clarke, nn. 28764, 28863, 
28870). 
Var. 8. Royleana (sp. Nees ; Beck.in Linnea, xxxix. p. 8, non 
Henderson): evolutior, magis nitida; culmis longis 5-7 dm., su- 
perne minutissime scabris; spicis pallide fuscis; bracteis sspe 
mucronatis, ima interdum longius aristata—Trilepis Royleana, 
Nees in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1834, p. 267, Cyper. Ind. 119; 
Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 535.—Kobresia Royleana, Henderson, Yar- 
kand, p. 339, n. 370, est K. scheenoides. 
Himalaya alpina, alt. 4000-5000 metr., a Sikkim (J. D. Hooker) 
ad Ladak (7. Thomson). Yarkand (Dr. Henderson). 
7. K. PsEUDOLAXA: culmis laxis, foliis planis; spicis laxis, in- 
terruptis; bractea ima sepius a folio terminata; nuce lineari- 
obovoidea apice breviter angustata. 
Culmi 2-3 dm. Folia eum culmo sepe equilonga; vagin: ime 
aphylle testacez pauce aut nulle. Bractea ima sepius 2-5 em. 
longa. Spies 3-4 cm. longz, 4- 8-spiculose. Spicule inferiores 
subdistantes, longe 10-15 mm., sessiles, subdistiche, densiflore ; 
flores 1 imus foemineus, 3-6 superiores masculi. Gluma feminea, 
elliptiea, subobtusa, pallide castanea in dorso viridi in marginibus 
(involutis basi subconnatis) scarioso-lucida. Stylus linearis, cum 
À parte nucis :quilonga ; rami 3, longi, hispidi.—Species in Kash- 
mir a me pro forma depauperata Hemicaricis lave habita, a 
Bentham (in dispositione generum) generice distincta. Hemi- 
caricis laxe forme minores densiores differunt spiculis subpani- 
culatis, basi a 2 vel pluribus (raro ab 1) floribus fcemineis in- 
structis. 
Kashmir: Alibad, alt. 3000 metr. (C. B. Clarke, n. 28693). 
Species miht ignota. 
8. K. rrprFOLIA : spica elliptico-oblonga, composita, spiculis 
7-9-floris; flore inferiore femineo, reliquis masculis; caryopsi 
elliptica compressa, mucronata, stigmatibus 2; foliis filiformi- 
triquetris quam culmus plerumque brevioribus.—Elyna filifolia, 
Lurcz. Fl. Baical. Dahur. ii. pt. 1, p. 288. 
Planta 4-5-pollicaris. Folia omnia radicalia. Spiculz sessiles 
5-7, superiores magis approximate. Squam:e undique imbricatæ, 
inferiores 1-2 vacuæ. Flos inferior foemineus, in spiculis superio- 
ribus interdum hermaphroditus ; ceteri 6-8 masculi. 
Dahuria: ad acidulas Ulataenses (Sedakow). 
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