704 CLXXII. CYPERACES. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carez. 
many-nerved without glands acuminated into a short rough-edged beak. 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxix. 93. 
Uprer Burma; Wullaboom in Hookhoom, Grifith (Kew Distrib. n. 6103).— 
Disrris. China, Japan. Log. 
Rhizome woody. Stems 1-2 ft. Infl. 4-6 by 1-3 in., dense, of vi 70 spe; 
lowest bract scarcely l in. Spikes nearly $ in., straw-colrd. Utricle (org "tn 
in Thomsoni) plane-convex; nerves 8 on the plane, 12 on the convex d: the ind 
minutely scabrous on edges.—Very near C. Thomsoni) but much less ngid; 8: in 
in fruit resembles that of Setaria italica. It is sometimes completely top oily) 
other cases the infl. has male spikes in the middle fem. at both ends (or at top 
as occurs in C. disticha. 
10. C. teretiuscula, Good. in Trans. Linn, Soc. ii. 163 (eeo. ' mg 
cited) ; stems 2 ft. scubrous at top, leaves nearly as long as stoms nem 
spikes ovoid or ellipsoid androgynous male at top green deg atricle 
forming a linear oblong interrupted compound spike, style few-nerv 
small stalked slightly spongy ovoid conical-beaked gibbous ie chk. 
on convex face, margins of beak serrate subhyaline almost Wie? Linnea, 
Riedgr. i. 30, tt. D. 19, & T. 69; Kunth Enum. ii. 390; Boeck. us L468. 
xxxix. 104. C. teretiuscula, var. 8 major, Boott Carex, W. DA 
C. mitis, Boeck. l. c. 104. 
a istrid. 
KASHMIR, alt. 6-7000 ft., Thomson. Buotan, Griffith, n. 2663 (Kew Dist 
n. 6104).— Disrris. Cooler N. Hemisphere. . idge on 
Griffith’s example shows no root, but is in ripe fruit; the utricle bas a PEE 
the nerveless face and about 4 nerves on tle middle of the turg! Ga numerous 
exactly as in European C. feretiuscula, Thomson’s Kashmir plant a the young 
stems closely placed on an intricately branched short weak rhizome it these two 
utricles are stalked and show the subalate margins of the beak. B e r says tbat 
plants together, for they must be very closely allied; Mr. J. G. Ba 
neither of them matches exactly C. teretiuscula. 
** Spikes linear-cylindric, peduncled, inflorescence loose. 
11. C. longipes, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc, xiv. 927 d long, teu 
infl.long very lax, lowest peduncle solitary usually 1-spike i 
glumes mucronate some aristate, style 2-fid, utricles green ^18; Drejet 
yellowish. Nees in Wight Contrib. 124; Kunth Enum. pm ; e 
Symb. Caric. 94, t. 10; Boott Carex, iv. 190, Ic. Ined. t. Di 
Linnea, xl. 376 (not of Thwaites).—Carex, Wall. Cat. 3388. China. 
NEPAL, SIKKIM, and Knuasta, alt. 4-12,000 ft., common:— DISTE S a the stem 
Rhizome short, woody, divided. Stems 6-24 in., slender. Leaves Lowest 
$ in. broad. Cauline sheaths distant, lowest often near bas 
peduncle usually exsert 2-8 in. (but see var. y), almost filiform, » st with lor? 
3-10 on each stem, 1-3 in., green or yellowish, usually solitary or Im, 
smaller near base, Male glumes obtuse with a minute rough exen into a roug 
anthers submuticous. Fem. glumes ovate, acuminate, mucro produce ellipsoid, sud- 
bristle often overtopping utricle. Ufricles much flattened, ovoid or labrous 0" 
denly narrowed into a long beak, distinctly 7—9-nerved on each faco, £ ; . 
scabrous on margin sometimes also on two marginal nerves see el glabrous 0^ 
narrowly oblong, deeply bifid, lobes lanceolate erect, scabrous OT rare ark brown i 
margins. Nut much flattened, 2 utricle (with besk), ovoid, obtuse, 
style little thickened, exsert branches shorter than utricle. ver both faces. 
Var. B nepalensis, Boott Carex, iv. 190; utricles scabrous-pilose © po. € 
C. macrolepis, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 329, & Prodr. 42 (no! Eë Sy 
nepalensis, Spreng. Syst. iii. 811; Nees in Wight Contrib. 125; 
