716 CLXXIL CYPFRACEE, (C. D. Clarke.) [Carez. 
fibres, Inf. 12-20 in. ; lower peduncles often 2-3 in. exsert, bracts usually as ng 
as infi., leaf-like. Spikes in fruit divaricate on the stiff divaricate panicle- ree 
Glumes (from middle female flowers) much shorter than utricle, ovate, SCH 
or not mucronate, 3-l-nerved on back, ferruginous, lineolately marko d rarely 
Ae in., ferruginous or brown, prominent in fruiting panicle, scarcely ato at 13 
glandular-dotted, quite smooth or minutely scabrous towards neck; ri " y fiting 
thick; beak usually sparsely scabrous, with elliptic mouth on one side. Tsch 
pretty closely utricle, ellipsoid, substipitate, pyramidal at top; style-base 
dilated. 
Var. B magporensis; secondary panicles with suberect branches scarcely 
pyramidal sometimes very slender, ripe utricle scarcely inflated fuscous SC Nage 
with black or red dots in upper half, beak subconic at base 3—5 utricle.— MAPA 
pore; alt. 2-4000 ft., common from the Kolhan to the summit of Duc? E One 
great variety of forms is here included, all undoubtedly one species ar eler 
matching C. cruciata, Wahl. typ. One form is large, with the second N Di Ge 
long-peduncled large dense branches in fruit very stout rigid erect; “Th " is every 
. narrow leaves, panicles slender the lower with only 5-8 spikes. ther intensely 
gradation between, The utricles are sometimes nearly glabrous, sometimes 
scabrous with large linear-conic points. 
i icle 
Var. y argocarpus ; secondary panicles pyramidal often very dense, BP hie fy) 
glistening white inflated conspicuous. C. bengalensis, Boott Carex, " SÉ Boott 
tt. 240-242; Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 846 (partly). C. vacua and C. con Khasia and 
ms. (partly.)—Abundant in INDIA, from the E. Nepal, J. D. H., to ank having 
Assam, Tonkin.—A plant collected by Boott on the Brahmapootra luins form 
fuscous-green utricles much less conspicuously ribbed, is supposed a Ps in the 
of var. argocarpus. Most of the glistening-white fruits are fusco 
herbarium. 
46. C. parvigluma, C. B. Clarke; leaves very long, stem m 
infi. usually of one pyramidal compound panicle, spikes as of ` suddenly 
style 3-fid, utricle globose trigonous many-striate glabrous 
narrowed into a linear beak 2 utricle. 
Assam ; Luckimpore, alt. 1500 ft., C. B. Clarke. Leaves 2-3 
Glabrous, except panicle-branches. Rhizome horizontal, woody. bling much à 
ft. by j in. Stem including inf. 5-8in. Infi. 3 by 1j in, resembng Dis, 
single peduncled panicle of C. cruciata ; in one example a small neary ot inflated, 
is added. Fem. glumes exceedingly small, elliptic, aristate. Utricle h it is nearly 
rather larger, and nerves 15-18, slenderer than in C. cruciata, to whic 
allied, but differs by the short stem, and very small glumes. 
not 
47. C. condensata, Nees in Wight Contrib. 123 (Royle, n- ded long 
of Kunth); leaves very long, infl. elongate of distant pedane eq utricle 
panicles, spikes 1-$ in. clustered ferruginous 3-6-nutted, sty le x 1 Jength 
narrow-elhpsoid trigonous irregularly ribbed not inflated, bern Atkinson 
of utricle 2-fid. Boott Carex, ii. 86, tt. 247, 248 ; Duthie in E. hiefl y, € 
Gaz. x. 616. C. bengalensis, Boeck. im Linnen xl. 347 (¢ "6, in 
indica, var. condensata, Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73. O. indica, 
Wight Contrib. p. 193 (Royle n. 85).—Carex, Wall. Cat. 3400 A. 
je to 
Sind; Pinwill. HIMALAYA, alt. 1-10,000 ft., common; from Dalhons 
Bhotan. Kuasra HiLzs, alt. 4-5000 ft., abundant. . icles, and the 
Separated from C. cruciata by the less pyramidal partial panic ften nearly 
utricle, which is smaller with linear-oblong shorter beak, less nerved e half. The 
nerveless on the plane face), frequently black- or red-dotted in the Wieder (when 
utricle is more or less scabrous-pilose, but sometimes glabrate. The p: 
dry) is always between cinnamomeous aud brown. 
