Carex. CLXXII. CYPERACEEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 109 
xiv. 331, & Prodr. 43 (not of Mich), C. platycarpa, Hochst. Steud. Syn. 
Cyp. p. 214.—Carex, Wall. Cat. 3394 (type sheet), 3395 A, partly. 
HIMALAYA, alt. 4—7000 ft., from Gurwhal to Bhotan, frequent. Kuasta HILLS, 
alt. 2-6000 ft., and Parkoy Mrs., Griffith. Assam; Luckimpore at 300 ft. 
TENASSERIM, alt. 3500 ft. PACHMARI, PULNEYS, NILGHIRIS, and CEYLON, alt. 
4-6000 ft.—Distris, Malaya, Japan. 
Glabrous, Rhizome woody, short. Stems closely tufted, 1-2} ft., triquetrous, 
Leaves often as long as stem, } in. wide. Infl. usually 4-6 in., lowest spike 1-2 in, 
distant ; lowest bract usually far overtopping the infl., but sometimes shorter than 
it, not sheathing. Fem. spikes 1-2 in. (sometimes longer) by } in., in fruit appear- 
ing purple with green linear marks (glumes); male spike 1-2 in., rather slender lax, 
paleferruginous. Fem. glumes narrow, rather longer than utricle, green 3-nerved 
on back, sides pale ferruginous or scarious. Utricle about A, in., usually dark 
purple with a green margin, densely granular with red-purple glands throughout; 
mouth of beak entire.—The large quantity of this common species now to hand 
leaves hardly any absolute characters to distinguish it from the two following. In 
Some, the bracts are slender, shorter than the uf. ; in others, the beak of the utricle 
has a distinct linear prolongation nearly as in the very close C. Arnottiana. The 
colour of the plant glumes and spikes varies much from the type; the Ceylon 
examples have the spikes a rich brown (as in C. Arnottiama) The most general 
characters for C. pkacota appear to be the rough excurrent green tip of the fem. 
glume with the utricle dense with glands to its base. 
24. C. pruinosa, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 255; Trans. Linn. 
Boc. xx. 131, & Carem, i. 65, t. 174; spikes broader laxer than in C. pAacota, 
Utricle larger à in. long, obscurely 3-5-nerved ; otherwise as C. phacota, 
of which Boeckeler esteems it a form. 
East BENGAL, Grifith (Kew Distrib. n. 6106). Knasia Hrirra, alt. 4200 ft., 
C. B. Clarke.—DISTRIB. Java. . . 
Boott (Carex, iv. 198, Ic. Ined. 667) has brought here his C. picta from Japan, 
Which has nerveless utricles. 
25. C. Arnottiana, Nees ms.; Drejer Symb. Caricol. 16, t. 5; ex- 
current tip of glume smooth, utricle glandular in its upper half, beak short 
triangular with a minute linear prolongation, otherwise as C. phacota, 
Boott Carex, iv. 178, Ic. Ined. 607 (not in Trans. Linn. Soe. xx. 129) ; The. 
Enum, 356; Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 435.—C. socia, Boott in Proc. Linn, 
Boc. i, 254, & in Trans. Linn. Soc. l.c. 128. 
CEYLON ; elevated parts of Central Province, Walker, Thwaites. 
26. C. notha, Kunth Enum. ii. 421; spikes 3-7 lower on slender 
peduncles linear-cylindrie, fem. glumes obtuse or minutely mucronate, 
styles 2.fid shorter than utricle, utricle ellipsoid plane-convex slenderly 
b -héerved minutely glandular narrowed suddenly into a short lincar 
Ak. Boott Carex, i. 8, t. 24; Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 433. C. Victorialis, 
Nees in Wight Contrib. 126 (style erroneously 3-fid) ; Kunth Enum. ii. 516. 
€. punctata, Nees l.c. 127 (not of Gaudin). ©. Benthamiana, Boott in 
le Himal. 412. C. phacota, Drejer Symb. Caricol. 15 (partly). 
Himanaya, alt. 5-11,000 ft., from Chini, Jacquemont, and Gurwhal, Thomson, 
to Bhotan, Griffith. 
ale spikes 2 in., brown. ; i 
urely 3-nerved on back, often quite muticous ; > is produced as an oblong- 
^ Phacota, i i idth of the glume 
ico dn which the whole green wi i 1, in. with round or linear, 
"ear flat ti Utricle exceeding the glume about 4j. ) 
Yellow or brown, scattered sunk glands ; beak slightly notched, minutely granular.— 
erwise as C. pAacota. 
Lowest bract hardly so long as infi. Glumes green, 
if a small mucro it is quite unlike 
