718 CLXXII. CYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carez. 
ovoid definitely nerved glabrous (very rarely thinly minutely setulose) heak 
linear about as long as utricle [but see vars. B, y.] Kunth Enum. ii. 910; 
Boott Carew, iii. 105 (vars. a and. y) tt. 311, 312; Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 352; 
C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 82. C. meiogyna, Nees tn Wight 
Contrib. 123, var. B (Wight n. 1915, b.) OC. cruciata, Thw. Enum, 355 
(parily.) C. nilagirica, Hochst. ; Steud. Syn. Cyp. p. 207. 
Throughout the Enast and Naca Hiris, alt. 1500-6000 ft.; NILGHIRI 
and PurNEY HILLS; alt. 4-7000 ft. CEYLON; Thwaites (C. P. 820, partly), &c.— 
Drernrp. China, Java. . d 
Glabrous, except the minutely hairy panicle branches. Rhizome very w », 
short (no long stolons). Stems 1-3 ft. Leaves often as long as stems, and ps oen 
type rather broad (often À in. and more) flat, thin. Panicle usually more t an 
stem ; partial panicles often very dense ; branches much slenderer than in C. gem t 
or condensata. Fem. glumes commonly small, ovate, as long as utricle (wit "e 
beak), sometimes elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous or minutely hairy, chestnut in ` 
Indian form, often paler or ferruginous in the Khasian. Utricle 75 M., t 
fitting the black nut very closely, about 15-nerved, tapering or suddenly narrowed a 
top; beak oblique, curved, subrecurved or straight, more or less scabrous- anys 
mouth very small, shortly bifid.—Here are included the C. jilicina, a, of Nees and 
Boott, and the Khasia var. y pallida of Boott which has usually (not always) Pa n 
glumes. The utricles in the Khasia plant are often shorter and more ovoid tha 
in the S. Indian. 
Var. B meiogyna, Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon 73; leaves often narrower, beak 
shorter from % to 3 utricle. Duthie in T. E. Atkins. Gaz. x. 616 ; Boott GH 
tt. 313-316. C. meiogyna (sp.) Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 123 (only Royle, n a? 
Cyperus caricinus, Don Prodr. 39.—From N..W. Himalaya to Bhotan, alt. 3- al 
ft., very common.—Considered here as a stouter form of this (as by Boott dubions d 
and Boeckeler) with the same distribution is C. cruciata, Nees in Wight Con in 
123 (a only); Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73 ; Boott Carex ii. 319, 320; Duthie ) 
T. E. Atkins, Gaz. x. 616, also marked by Boott — C. ramosa, Schk. (a Mascarene 2. 
which it is near; but it is nearer the true C. cruciata above, from which it d 
in the slenderer panicle-branches and spikes. ikes 
Var. y minor, Boott Carex, iii. 103, tt. 317, 318; leaves very narrow, En 1 
small pale densely clustered, glumes ferruginous, utricle very small, beak haw A is 
utricle.—N. Sikkim; alt. 7500-10,000 ft., J. D. H., &c.—À very similar plant © 
found in Khasia, alt. 6000 ft., but with the beak of utricle much longer; it mus 
a var, of C. filicina, Nees. 
Var. ? 8 microgyna; leaves very narrow, spikes very slender, glume 
ovate obtuse dark brown, utricle very small fuscous, beak hardly j utric 
Wall. Cat. 3399. Kurg and Ceylon. Chittagong; Arracan and Ava. 
52. C. plebeia, C. B. Clarke; leaves narrow, partial panicles 
pyramidal slender, spikes brown, fem. glumes ovate acute scarcely mu. d 
nate, style 3-fid, utricle (for the plant rather large) narrow ellipso 
acutely trigonous strongly many-nerved hairy fuscous-brown, beak scarce y 
¢ length of utricle. 
CHOTA NAGPORE; alt. 1500-2000 ft., throughout the province, C. B. Clare. 
This may be esteemed another var. of C. filicina, Nees. It was in cultro 
in 1879 in the Calcutta Bot. Garden under the traditional name of C. benga ot , 
Roxb. It is the only Carex that Roxburgh would know at his old Samu erch 
station, and the only species convenient for introduction at Calcutta. But Role that 
describes his C. bengalensis as having come from Sylhet; and it is proba ciat, 
Roxburgh would not have differentiated a low-level Khasia plant of C. educe C. 
Wahl. from C. plebeia. I have therefore thought it more convenient to T mes 0 
bengalensis, Roxb. to C. cruciata, than to introduce a great change 1n the na 
this critical group. 
s very small 
le.—Carex; 
