708 OLXXIL. CYPERACEE. (C. D. Clarke.) [ Cares, 
nerved smooth gradually passing into a conical entire beak. Boeck. in 
Linnza, xl. 398. 
SIKKIM, alt. 8-9000 ft.; Sinchul, J. D. H.; Tonglo and Sundukphoo, C. B. 
Clarke, &c. i 
Glabrous, tufted, lower sheaths shining brown. Stems 8 ft. Leaves 18 Wi vot 
Lowest spike 3-4 in., distant; peduncle 2-4 in. long; bract overtopping infl. ind 
sheathing. Spikes 5 by 4 in., terete; terminal male at base, fem. in middle an 
usuaily at top. Fem. glumes as long as the utricles, oblong-lanceolate, aristate, 
broadly 3-nerved, green on the back, sides black-purple, bristle green soabroor 
Utricles } in., turgid, fuscous, 7-11-nerved on each face, whole surface minu y 
yellow-glandular-punctate ; beak searcely granular, hardly notched ; stigmas Wei 
shortly exsert. Nut ovoid, somewhat narrowed upwards.— This species, from the 
root to the glumes, is extraordinarily like C. prelonga, but rather stouter ; 
fruiting spikes and utricles are totally unlike. 
21. C. sikkimensis, C. B. Clarke; tall, leaves long narrow, ie 
4-7 linear clavate, styles2-fid, utricle ellipsoid compressed most slender'y 
nerved brown smooth narrowed into a conico-linear entire beak. 
SIKKIM; Jongri, alt. 12-13,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. topping 
Lowest spike 2-3 in. distant ; peduncle 2-3 in. long ; lowest bract over Mäin 
the infl., not sheathing. Spikes 2 by } in., terminal usually fem. at top lon e 
sometimes fem. only in the middle, sometimes wholly male. Fem. glumes 9 ollow. 
utricles, oblong-lanceolate, not or scarcely mucronate, black-purple, back pa eJ ular- 
Utricle Jy in., stalked, not glandular ; beak oblong from a conical base, SC th of 
scabrous; stigmas exsert 2 the length of utricle. ut ellipsoid, 2 the je denti- 
whole utricle.—Not closely allied to the preceding species; it has the utrie ` spike, 
cally of C. notha from which it differs not only in the fem. top of the terminal sP 
but in its larger size and much larger spikes, 
22. €. cernua, Boott Carer, iv. 171, t. 578; leaves long, spikes 1 
cylindric very dense, styles 2-fid, utricle broadly ovate much opi 
nerveless densely glandular subscabrous to base rich-brown, beak ¢ 
entire. 
Assam; to Sudiya, Jenkins, Simons, Grifith (Kew Distrib. 6099). 
Tonkin, Japan. t spi 
Stems 12-18 in. Leaves as long as stem, up to i in. broad. Low athi 
3-2 in. distant; peduncle 34-2 in. long; bract overtopping inf, noi iddle male 
Spikes up to 2} by 1 in. ; terminal one male at base (sometimes fem. in n pristle 
at both ends). Fem. glumes as long as utricle, 3-nerved, green on ba gei? une 
lanceolate excurrent rough.  Utricle scarcely 4 in., stalked; conica. "ne 
distinguishable from utricle with no (or hardly any) linear terminat 
preélonga the whole utricle is sprinkled with minute yellow translucent g' 
in the substance of utricle; in C, cernua the glands are very thick, wbite ongo 
depressed papilla. C. cernua appears really nearer C. phacota than C.P 
but ditfers from both in the densely packed utricles. 
Sect. 3. Vulgares. Terminal spike male, the others fe 
top, solitary. 
—DIstTBIB. 
m. or male 3t 
ing of 
23. €. phacota, Spreng. Syst. iii. 826; spikes 3-11 lower nod a 
slender peduncles linear-cylindrie, fem. glumes with an excurt andular 
scabrous tip, styles 2-fid short, utricle ovoid flat nearly nerveless É ngation- 
to the base, beak short triangular with hardly any linear pro" Caricol- 
Nees in Wight Contrib. 126; Kunth Enum. ii. 420; Drejer D), Enum 
15, t. 4 (excl. C. punctata & notha); Boott Carex, i. 68, t. 168; Linn. Soe 
356; Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 434. C. lenticularis, Don t^ Trans. 
