714 CLXXIL CYPERACEE,. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carez. 
* Subscapose, basal leaves long, cauline leaves and bracts very short. 
40. C. cyrtostachys, Brongn. in Bot. Voy. Coquille 152, t. 25; inf 
compound, spikes linear-oblong lax pale, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsois: 
trigonous many-nerved minutely hairy, beak scarcely } utricle. E. 
Enum. 3.513; Moritzi Verz. Zoll. Pn 98; Boott Carex, n. 103, t. 310; 
Boeck, in Linnea, xl. 327.—Carex, Wall. Cat. 3383. 
Pewanc; Wallich. PERAK; alt. 3500 ft. King’s Collector, SINGAPORE, 
Ridley.—Distris, Malaya, China. . bradical 
Glabrous, except utricle. Rhizome horizontal, thick. Leaves many, dh ih ath 3 
1-2 ft. by 3-4 in., flat, tough, many-nerved. Scapes numerous, 4-9 in., wit duncles 
and peduncles nearly throughout their length; bracts 0-} in. linear; pe arcely 
exsert 0-1 in., 1-5-spiked. Spikes } by j-À m. Fem. glumes ovate, acute, soa send 
mucronate, shorter than utricle. Utricle $ in.; beak scarcely notched. Sly Boott 
its 3 branches short, style-base linear. Nut ‘‘ distorted by depressions, o only 
gynophore small yellow, there are two main lateral excavated patches. ( 
Indian species that has a strongly excavated-distorted nut.) 
41. C. Helferi, Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 365; basal leaves long up to 1 
in. broad, scape with 4-6 distant peduncles each carrying one dem he. 
cylindric pale head, ind. minutely hairy, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid Wi) 
trous beak linear $ utricle. 
TENASSERIM ; Helfer (Kew Distrib. 6111, 2). . 
Rhizome stout. [MAS 20 in., flat, sub Saved, Scape 10-14 in. M 23 
by 4 in., sublanceolate ; peduncles exsert, 4-1 in., minutely hairy. Spt ^t NM bristle 
oblong or (fruiting) ovoid, 4-1-nutted, ferruginous. Fem. glumes P both ends, 
exceeding beak of utricle. Utricle } in. and upwards, pyramidal at ul ase 
slenderly many-nerved, minutely hairy; beak slender, mouth very sm? 
D 
minutely bulbous to hold slightly bulbous style-base.—An unmistakable spectes. 
42. €. (t) pandanophylla, C. B. Clarke; leaves long broad, Ven 
in numerous fascicles on branches of scape female at base male S "eria 
glumes elliptic obtuse minutely scabrous-hairy long cuspidate. 
pandanophylla, Kurz ms. 
Prau; Yomah, Kurz. 2 ft. by 1-13 
Very stout. Rhizome oblique, woody. Leaves subradical many, 1 se. Scape 
in., flat, striated, glabrous, as though petioled, petiole dilated at teles 4 in. 
stout, 9 in., branches 2-3 in., minutely hairy. Spikes j-À by de in. Wee narrow 
setaceous. Glumes closely imbricated on all sides, chestnut-colrd. wi dvanced, 
white margin.— Very young ; at Calcutta where the material is little more ut they 
the minute “flowers ” in the lower axils of a spike appeared utricular "leaves ure 
might represent the youngest stage of a Mapanioid inflorescence ; the 
altogether like those of Mapania. 
** Spikes short, very numerous (not scapose). 
D n- 
43. C. indica, Linn. Mant. 574; leaves subbasal very long, infl ele 
gate, of distant peduncled pyramidal compound panicles, you E le sub- 
3-$ in. linear pale long-bracteoled, glumes aristate, style 3-fid, "l| into an 
globose trigonous many-striate glabrous suddenly contracte: Linnea, 
oblong-linear beak. Boott Curez, ii. 87, tt. 250, 252-254; oec k, ; Steud. in 
xl. 347 (excl. Wallich n. 3420, not Kunth, or Nees.) C. Moritzib Cat 
Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii, 60; Boeck. in Linnæa, xl. 350. O. longue” qx 
Boott ms.; Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlv. (pars. 2) 
fissilis, Boott ans. 
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