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2-8 mm., ovate, interdum breviter mucronats, nigro-testacee ; 
spicula mascula terminalis fusca. — Spieule fæmineæ: gluma 
elliptica semiutriculiformis, marginibus deorsum late connatis, 
levis; stylus vix ullus; floris superioris rudimentum nullum aut 
brevissimum. Nux longa 1-13 mm., oblonga, apice subito an- 
gustata; testa obscurius reticulata. 
Himalaya alpina: Kunawur in altissimis (Jacquemont, n. 
1783); Ladak, in jugo Lanak (7. Thomson); Sikkim, prope 
Momay et Kongra Lama, alt. 4400 metr. (J. D. Hooker). 
** Bractee inferiores patentim suberecta. 
4. H. FILICINA : eulmis tenuibus; foliis planis; spicis linea- 
ribus; bracteis oblongis, acutis, aristatis, laxe imbricatis aut in- 
ferioribus paullo distantibus; nuce anguste oblonga. 
Culmi 4-22 dm.; vagmæ mferiores fusce. Folia culmis bre- 
viora. Spice longe 2-33 cm., late 3 mm., filiformes, subflexuose. 
Bracteæ intermedi androgyns in parvam scabram aristam an- 
gustate, ime longius aristate, pallide fuscw, inferiores patentim 
suberecte neque astricte. Spicule fæmineæ: gluma ovata sub- 
obtusa, marginibus basi connatis; flos imus fcemineus, flores su- 
periores 1—4 plus minus tabescentes. Stylus brevis, basi vix 
incrassatus. Nux apice breviter acutata minutissime reticulata ; 
styli basis persistens, linearis, brevis, vix rostriformis.—Species 
Caricem filicinam referens, cum hae a T. Thomson lecta, ex hac 
a cl. Boott extricata; a Bentham in Hemicarice in herbario locata ; 
inter Kobresiam et Hemicaricem videtur intermedia. 
Himalaya: Fagu prope Simla (7. Thomson). 
Sect. 6. CowPosrrx. Spice composite; spicule inferiores e 
pluribus spiculis foemineis 1-floris instructe. Bractes ime 
sepe elongate foliiformes. 
5. H. CURVIROSTRIS, n. sp.: culmis tenuibus; foliis planis; spicis 
anguste oblongis, laxis, vix interruptis; bracteis oblongis, acutis, 
imis aristatis vel subfoliaceis; nuce anguste oblonga, rostro cylin- 
drico-lineari curvato e gluma exserto.—Elyna, sp. 10, Herb. Ind. 
Or., Hook. f. et T. Thom. 
Culmi 1 dm.; vagine imæ fusce. Folia culmis subsequilonga. 
Spice longe 34 cm., late 5-7 mm., viridi-fusce; bractea ima 
aristata, interdum spice equilonga. Spice (in exemplis lectis) 
subfæmineæ ; nempe spicule propria 1-flore, flore foemineo, spi- 
culis (admodum paucis) masculis prope apices ramorum spic® 
additis. Gluma fominea elliptica, vix acuta, involuta marginibus 
