Carez.] CLXXIL CYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 703 
flat when dry, and by the utricles having in their upper half only many larger 
orange-red glands. Though kept distinct by Boott and Boeckeler it should probably 
be esteemed only a form of C. nubigena. 
. T. ©. muricata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1382; rhizome short or 0, leaves not 
incurved, spikes ovoid androgynous male at top forming an oblong or in- 
terrupted linear compound spike or very narrow panicle, style 2-fid, utricle 
ovoid narrowed into a narrow conic beak. nerveless on plane face. Schk. 
Riedgr. i. 20, tt. E. 22, aud Ee. 91; Kunth Enum. ii. 384; J. Gay in Ann. 
Se. Nat. ser. 9, x. 355; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 9, t. 215; Boott Carex, iv. 
192; Boeck. in Linneea, xxxix. 86. C. divulsa, Gooden. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ii 160; Schk Le tt. Dd. 89 and Ww. 89; Kunth l.c. ii. 385; Reich), 
Fl. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 11, t. 220, Vignea muricata (and divulsa), Reichb. Fl. 
Germ, Excurs. 57 (and 59.) 
KASHMIR ; alt, 6-9000 ft., C. B. Clarke.—DisTRi5. Asia, colder N. regions. 
The Kashmir examples resemble ordinary large European typical ones. Stems 
20 in. Leaves i-l in. broad, flat when dry. Inf. 2-3 in. by 4 in., consisting of 
4-8 globose spikes, lower shortly distant. “Anthers with a linear crest. Utricle 
large, i in. long, yellowish, with a few irregular nerves on convex face, otherwise 
nearly nerveless, beak bifid j its length, margins closely minutely scabrid or nearly 
smooth. Nut} utricle, subquadrate-ovoid compressed, not at all trigonous.— The form 
C. divulsa is in infl. and general aspect nearer the subjoined var. 
Var. B foliosa (sp.) D. Don in Trans. Linn, Soc. xiv. 327 and Prodr. 42; 
inflorescence pale of many spikelets at base often subcompound, utricle smaller. Nees 
in Wight Contrib. 121; Boott Carex i. 1, t. 3; Kunth l.c. 384; Strachey Cat. PI. 
Kumaon, 73; Boeck. l.c. 88. C. notoleia, Nees l.c.; Kunth l.c. 388. C. Walli- 
chiana, Spreng. Syst. iii. 812 (not of Prescott). C. muricata, var. indica, Boott 
Carex, iv. 193.—Carex, Wall. Cat. 3387.—Himalaya ; alt. 6-9000 ft., from 
Kashmir to Upper Sikkim frequent. Sind; Pinwill, Khasia hills; alt. 4000 ft., 
Grifith. Putney and NiLenigr HILLS; Wight.—Resembles shorter examples of 
the European C. divulsa. Boott finally reduced the whole series under C. muricata, 
Linn. The Indian var. foliosa has the crested anthers and flat leaves of muricata, 
and is thus easily distinguished from nubigena even when young. Some of the 
Indian plants referred here are hardly separable from the American C. stipata, Muhl. 
Which extends to Japan and Amurland. 
8. C, Thomsoni, Boot Carez,i.l, t. 1; stem lignescent with many 
nodes, spikes ellipsoid androgynous male at top forming a close linear 
Compound spike long overtopped by leaves, style 2-fid, utricle ovoid- 
triangular thinly obscurely many-nerved with numerous red glands 
throughout. Bozck. in Linnea, xxxix. 93. i 
Himataya and KnastA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Kumaon, Thomson, to UPPER 
URMA, Griffith, frequent, only on river margins.— ISTRIB. Tonkin. ME 
Stems Adi densely cmapitose, very rigid, black in age, and, often chining, 
perennial, not rarely rooting at top and throwing thence a cluster of stems the ` x 
season, Leaves numerous, infolded when dry, narrow, far overtopping | re in . 
Inf. often by 4-5 by à in, dense, of 25-30 regularly placed prownis ppikes, 
tricle small, brownish, plano-convex, hardly narrowed into the trianga ar s Lort Iy- 
Notched beak,—'The younger examples have been mixed with C. m ig ` d pn, 
Which has the infl. sometimes dense and regular; but in C. nubigena the infl. is 
°vertopped by leaves, and the utricle is more narrowed into the beak. 
iv. 172, t. 582; leaves long narrow 
Boott Carex, iv. 17 Se mals at top 
style 2-fid, utricle ovoid 
9. C, fluviatilis, € 2 L; 
ĉqualling the green stem, spikes ellipsoid an 
humerous forming a close linear compound spike, 
