Kobresia. | CLXXIL CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 697 
Lower spikelets mostly 2-fld. ie. lower fem., upper male. Nut nearly as long as 
glume ; beak 4 length of nut. 
_ 10. K. Duthiei, C. B. Clarke; stems medium-sized rigid, spikes 
linear dense green, style 3-fid, nut small narrowly obovoid, beak short 
scarcely overtopping glume. 
" KuMAON, alt. 11-16,000 ft., Duthie (nn. 3461, 6093, 6094) and Gurwhal (n. 
16). 
Stems densely caspitose, 4-8 in., striate; lower sheaths tight, not lacerate. 
Leaves many, 2—4 length of stem, A. in. broad, flat, tip caudate. Spikes 1 by 4; in., 
very rigid; bracteoles A, in. ovate, closely spirally imbricated. Spikelets mostly 
2-fld. upper flower male. Nut, including beak, about as long as glume; beak A 
leugth of nut. 
ll. X. capillifolia, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 378; 
somewhat slender, leaves linear-setaceous, sheaths chestnut-colour some- 
what torn, spikes linear, bracteoles obtuse erect margins scarious, style 
3-fid, nut ellipsoid (scarcely obovoid) narrowed at top into linear style. 
- Scirpina, Boeck. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 104 and xix. 90. K. elata 
and K. brunnescens, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. i. 32, 40. Elyna capillifolia, Deene. 
in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 173, t. 174. E. spicata, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 994.— 
Elyna, sp. n. 6, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. T. 
KasuuiR to GURWHAL, alt. 10-12,000 ft., frequent, Jacquemont, T. Thomson, 
€. KURRUM VALLEY; alt. 12,500 ft., Aitchison. 
Stems 2-12 in. Spikes 2-1 by i-i in, brown chestnut-colour or yellow ; 
bracteoles iin. Spikelets mostly 3-4-fld. Nut shorter than glume.— Very near the 
European X. scirpina, Willd., but is a finer plant, with a brighter thicker spike. 
19. K. schoenoides, Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxix. 7; stems stout rigid, 
leaves linear channelled incurved, sheaths shining brown very little torn, 
spikes oblong dense, bracteoles } in. elliptic oblong obtuse, style 3-fid, 
hut obovoid obtuse, beak small linear. <Aitch. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 
90; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 378 (not of Henders.). K. 
sibirica, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxix.7. K. Royleana, Henders. Yarkand 339 
(not Trilepis Royleana, Wees). Elyna schcenoides, C. A. Meyer in Ledeb. 
FL Alt. iv. 935 (in mole); Kunth Enum.. ii. 534; Strachey Cat. PI. 
Kumaon, 73; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 394. E. Sibirica, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. 
Imp. Mose. (1838) 103. 
HIMALAYA ; alt. 10-16,000 ft. from W. TIBET, Thomson, to SIKKIM, J. D. H.— 
ISTRIB, Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia. 2n tems 
Rhizome woody, short. Stems 4-24 in., 45-1 in. diam. Leaves as long as stems, 
,9 scarcely $ of stem, ;1,—1 in. broad, Spikes 4-1 by 3 in. ; bracteole- chaffy, loosely 
€ 
™bricated, suberect. "Spikelets 1-5-fld., lowest fl. fem., or towards top of spike 
Wholly male, Nut Ae in., ashy black. 
13. K. . Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 379, t. 80, fig. 7 ; 
stems bebe pe Sa DA incurved, sheaths testaceous-brown 
scarcely lacerate, spike ellipsoid dense, bracteoles in. ovate obtuse shining, 
style 3-fid, nut obovoid obtuse, beak very short scabrous. 
West. HIMALAYA, alt. 12-15,000 ft.; Kashmir, C. B. Clarke; Kumaon and 
Gurwhal, Duthie. 
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Stems 2-10 in. Leaves overtopping stem. Spikes a | ut nd 
restnut-colour, paler on back, margins often white-scarious. Nut j; in., 
at of K. schenoides. 
by } in. Bracteoles shining 
very like 
