1C2 CLXXIL CYPERACEE, (C. B. Clarke.) [ Carex. 
4. C. vulpinaris, Nees in Wight Contrib. 121; nearly as C. divisa, 
but utricle smaller elliptic-lanceolate membranous obscurely nerved. 
Kunth Enum. ii. 983; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxix. 63. ©. curaica, var. B 
Boott Carex, iv. 204. C. divisa, Boott l.c. iv. 186 (partly). C. Henning- 
siana, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. i. 42. 
KvNAWUR ; Royle n. 73. GuRWHAL ; alt. 11,000 ft., Duthie (n. 55). LAHOUL; 
Schlagintweit (n. 2813). KasHwIR; Baramulla, Jacquemont (nn. 338, 362).— 
DisTRIB. Cabul. . 
Leaves lin. broad. Infl. dense. Glumes acute or almost acuminate, brown. 
Utricle slender, very thin; beak somewhat winged on scabrous margins.—Stems 5 
in. type form; Jacquemont’s are identical, with stems 5-9 in.; one 3s marked by 
Boott C. divisa, Hudson, the other C. stenophylla, Wahl. ? 
5. C. curaica, Kunth Enum. ii. 975; rhizome long-creeping, culms 
distant somewhat stout, spikes ovoid androgynous male at top forming 
one ovoid compound spike, style 2-fid, utricle ellipsoid lanceolate nearly 
nerveless, beak minutely or obsoletely scabrous on margins. Boott Carer, 
iv. 204 in small part. O. ovata, C. A. Meyer in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. iv. 207 an 
Ie. Pl. Ross, iv. 10, t. 323. C. incurva, var. B, Trev. in Ledeb. FI. Ross. ww. 
270 (excl. syn.). C. stenophylla, Benth. in Henders. Yarkand 338. 
KASHMIR; Barzil; alt. 10,500 ft., C. B. Clarke. Lower Karakash, alt. 14,000 
ft., Henderson n. 867.—Distris. Central Asia. der; 
Very like large states of C. stenophylla; stems 8-10 in., stouter, leaves bron tod 
margins of glumes less shining scarious. Ripe utricle very convex, hardly m face. 
yellowish, nerveless on the plane face, very obscurely nerved on the convex, of 
This plant is (as C. A. Meyer states) near C. fetida, Allioni. The C. curaio ^ 
''urezan., Maxim., and others is largely (or wholly) founded on C. pycnostac t 
Karel, et Kiril. (in Bull. Soc. Mose. xv. 522) which is of similar appearance, 
with utricles of similar shape but strongly many-nerved. 
6. C. nubigena, D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 326 and Prodr: 
42; rhizome short or 0, leaves long narrow incurved when dry, SP te 
ovoid androgynous male at top forming an ovoid oblong or interrup an 
linear compound spike, style 2-fid, utricle ellipsoid narrowed into s 
oblong-linear beak many-nerved on both faces. Nees in Wight E? Wi 
120; Kunth Enum. ii. 385; Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73; Tw. Stew 1 
355; Boott Carez,i.1,t. 9; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxix. 90. ©. fallax, Wa L 
in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii, 60 and Cyp. 189 ; Boeck. l. e.—Carex, Wa 
Cat. 3396. . 
HiMALAYA; alt, 5-13,000 ft., abundant. Kmasra to MUNEYPOOR, alt, 4-60 
ft., abundant. SiwD; Pinwill. NiLGmniRI, Anamallays, and CEYLON; alt. 5-8 
ft., common.—DısTRIB. Cabul, Malaya, China, Japan. long. 
Stems 6-30 in., cæspitose on a tough perennial rhizome. Lower leave’ own; 
Infl. from 4 in., dense, ovoid, to 5 in. linear interrupted, greenish becoming r ense. 
lowest bract usually much overtopping infi., sometimes not iin. Spikes z "Lang 
Fem. glumes ovate scarcely apiculate, shorter than utricle, Anthers linear, thin 
very shortly apiculate. Style occasionally 3-fid, fide Boott. Utricle small, ? 15 on 
texture, plano-convex, green or pale brown, 9-11-nerved on plane face, lerves; 
convex; small red glands frequently scattered all over utricle between the n 1mos 
beak not winged, commonly quite smooth, not rarely scabrid, sometimes r ` 
hispid. Mut hardly j utricle, compressed, obtuse, brown.—General pet Ip: 
muricata, Linn. var. foliosa, but may be generally separated by the puit many- 
volate leaves. Well distinguished from all allied Indian species by the ei Ae, i 
nerved on both faces. C. leiorhyncha, C. A. Meyer Mem. Sav. Etrang. broader, 
217, t. 9, a Central Asian plant, differs only by the leaves beiug rather 
