710 CLXXIL CYPERACEE. (C. D. Clarke.) [Carez. 
27. C. fucata, Boott ms.; spikes dense blackish, styles 2-fid m 
about i length of utricle, utricle nerveless, otherwise nearly as C. 
nota. 
SIKKIM; Lachen, alt. 9-12,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Lowest bract far overtopping infi. Spikes much more densely packed, a 
than in C. notha; glumes rather longer, black with a linear green mar 
Lowest spike 3-10 in. distant in some examples. 
and thicker 
on back, 
28. C. rubro-brunnea, C. B. Clarke; spikes 4-8 close together 
nearly sessile, styles 2-fd persistent very long red-brown, utricle i har 
plane-convex very slenderly 3-5-nerved or nerveless minutely KC 
narrowed suddenly into a short linear beak. C. heterolepis, Boott «n ferry 
Exped. Japan, ii. 327, not of Bunge. 
Kasia Hitts, alt. 2-6000 ft., very common, C. B. Clarke. MUNEYPO®, 
Watt.—DisTRi!B. China, Japan. " 
Glabrous. Rhizome woody, short. Stems clustered, 1-2 ft. Leaves HE 
often as long as culm, scarcely lin. broad, Spikes 2-3 by i$ ‘ke rarely 1 in. 
often comose by long persistent styles; male spike paler ; lowest sp! t triangular, 
distant ; lowest bract much overtopping inflorescence. Fem. glumes ova e -as of C. 
muticous or nearly so, rich brown with yellow keel. Utricle very near Y trice. 
fucata (or C. notha), but exsert part of style-branches much longer than 
29. €. Prescottiana, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 286, & eege 
Linn. Soc. xx. 135, & Carew, i. 45, t. 115 (excl. Hawaii plant); sp ross 
lower peduncled 4-6 in. long slender, styles 2-fid, utricle small con ott in 
ovoid slightly nervose smooth eglandular beakless. C. producta; le only). 
Herb. Hook.” C. teres P partly, Boott Careg, i. 62, t. 167 (lower utrie 
—Carex, Wall, Cat. 3386, 
Nepat, Wallich. KHASIA H1LLs, alt. 4500 ft. ; Myrung and Nunklow, 
—Distrip. Japan. in. broad. 
Glabrous, Stems 11-91 ft. Leaves nearly as long as stem, Up to i infl. not 
Lowest spike 1-5 in. distant, peduncle 4-2 in.; lowest brach equally s ike 0 en 
sheathing ; terminal spike 21 in. by } in., male, with a short second us" T glumes 
added. Fem. spikes nodding, wavy, 3 in. broad, yellow brown in fruit. es scarcely 
about as long as utricles with a short excurrent tip or obtuse. Hn scatte 
yz in., slightly inflated, irregularly 3-5-nerved on each face, with a very sath pardly 
sunk obscure glands, suddenly narrowed at top to a small entire mon nailer, less 
microscopically a beak.—Very near C. prelonga, but the utricles are | al spike i5 
nerved, without linear beak ; and in all the specimens seen the termina this with 
wholly male.—In his * Carex ” i. 62, t. 167 (and herbarium), Boott wich sles 
C. sandwicensis, Boeck. (C. Prescottiana, H. Mann) from the Sand oott« 
which the utricle differs materially. I think it probable that C. Presco Bootl) for 
was C. heterolepis, Bunge, Euum. Pl. Chin. Var, [1831] 69 (not 2 
Bunge says his C, heterolepis resembled C. pendula, but had a bifid sty 
. . 0 lowest 
30. C. ceespititia, Nees in Wight Contrib. 197 ; spikes flos 2-fid, 
subsessile or erect on a short peduncle cylindric dense rig! - 
J. D. H. 
. - lar su 
utricle ovoid compressed irregularly few-nerved smooth eglandu 412; 
denly narrowed into a minute entire beak. Kunth Enum. Den 
Boott Core, iv. 133, t. 498, fig. 3; Boeck. in Linnwa, xl. 277 
Wall. Cat. 3392. 
Sytner, Wallich, C. B. Clarke. . regular inf 
1, Glabrous, 2 ft, high, babit of C. rigida, Gooden., but with a most ii. long; 
lerminal male spike sometimes 4 in. usually 0-2 in. above the next 
