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fere liberis. Ovarium in stylum attenuatum. Nux (eum rostro) 
longa 2 mm.; rostrum cum dimidio nucis proprie equilongum, 
conico-lineare, lave, minutissime reticulatum, a stylobasi floccu- 
losa sæpe coronatum. 
Himalaya: Sikkim, alt. 4000 metr. prope pagum Tungu (J. D. 
Hooker). 
6. H. naxa (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 1072); culmis 
laxis foliatis; foliis planis; spicis elongatis, interruptis, subpani- 
culatis ; bracteis oblongis, acutis, inferioribus aristatis vel imis 
sepe foliformibus; nuce anguste oblonga erostri a styli basi 
lineari coronata.—Cobresia laxa, Mees, Cyper. Ind. p. 119.— 
Kobresia laxa, Back. in Linnea, xxxix. p. 6.—Elyna? laxa, 
Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 534. 
Culmi 3-8 dm.; usque ad 3-4 longitudinis vaginis intecti; 
vaginze ime fuseze, subaphylle. Folia eulmis sepe subequilonga, 
laxa. Panicule longs: 2-10 cm., viridi-fusce ; bractea ima longa 
5-8 mm., aut aristata aut panicule subequilonga, basi sepe vagi- 
nans. Spice pseudosimplices, e pluribus foemineis unica mascula 
Spiculis; spieule proprie 1-flore, e flore feemineo cum rudi- 
mento, spicula mascula pluriflora apice addita. Preterea spicule 
2-floree haud raro obvie sunt, flore inferiore femineo, superiore 
masculo. Rudimentum floris superioris (quandoque præsens) 
lineare viride 3-nerveum, margine scabrum, bractee juxtapositum. 
Flos femineus: gluma oblongo-lanceolata, subutriculiformis 
marginibus basi connatis, in nervis lateralibus viridis scabra, 
apice interdum breviter bicuspidata; stylus cum ovario quasi- 
articulatus, usque ad basim stigmatum flocculoso-villosus ; stig- 
mata longa. Nux longa 14 mm., oblonga, apice rostro brevissimo 
lato terminata, levis, minute reticulata; in rostro stylobasis vil- 
losa, subpersistens, linearis, subarticulata spe videtur. 
Himalaya occidentalis, alt. 2000-4000 metr., communis; in 
provinciis Kashmir, Ladak, Nubra, &e. (Royle, Winterbottom, 
n. 574, &c.). Sikkim, alt. 3000 metr. (J. .D. Hooker). 
Scheenoxiphium, Nees in Linnea, ix. p. 805; Benth. et Hook. 
J. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 1072.—Hemicarieis sp. african, Benth. et 
Hook. f. l.c. 
Flores unisexuales. Spicule complete androgynæ etiamque 
in ipsissima planta spicule unisexuales haud raro obvie. In 
Spiculis completis flos imus foemineus, superiores 1—4 masculi in 
thachilla (cum gluma feminea sepe fere equilonga) complanata 
