122 OLXXIL OYPERAOEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carez. 
peduncles often 6-8 in. distant, exsert 1-2 in.; heads depauperated, j in. diam. of 
1-6 spikes. Spikes } in., ovoid (in fruit), 4—8-nutted. Fem. glumes ovate, son 
nate, cuspidate (cusp not overtopping beak of utricle), nearly glabrous except A 
top. Utricle (with beak) 2 in., nerves 20 not strong; beak rather deeply bifid, 
very little conic-dilated at base. 
65. C. malaccensis, C. B. Clarke; heads pyramidal rigid 4 a 
diam. white, female glumes minutely hairy, utricle strongly-nerve 
glabrous subinflated narrowed into conico-linear flattened beak scabrous 
on margins, otherwise as C. leucantha. 
Matacca; Langkawi, Ridley (n. 1669). ën (in C 
Bracts under terminal head 4 by 2 in., leaf-like, horizontally spreading (in ; 
leucantha, weak suberect very narrow), Beak of utricle curved inwards rete) 
compressed with two acute very scabrous margins (in C. leucantha nearly tera 
—The long narrow leaves and few depauperated remote white heads are very © 
C. leucantha. 
66. C. spicigera, Nees in Wight Contrib. 191; leaves very long 
narrow, infl. oblong panicled fuscous, lower peduncles 1-2 in. distan: ` 
partial panicles oblong interrupted, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid trigona Á 
many-nerved hairy, beak oblong scarcely 4 utricle. Kunth Enum. 1. 97^" 
Boott Carex, i. 10, t. 29; Thw. Enum. 355; Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 368. 
CEYLON ; “Central Province up to 6000 ft., Thwaites (C.P. n. 822), &c. 1 in; 
Stems 1-1} ft. Leaves overtopping infl., }-} in. broad. bat, 3 by lumes 
partial panicles j by X in., dense. Spikes in fruit. ovoid, 4-nutted. Fem. rown- 
ovate, often aristate, shorter (including bristle) than utricle. Utricle 35 in-, OF 
red; beak scarcely notched. 
. ` tt 
Var, 8 minor, The, Le, 355; very slender, infi. 1 by j in. E. Gardneri, Boe 
ms.—CEYLON (C.P. n. 824), Gardner. Stems 8-10 in., almost capillary. 
scarcely A in. broad, Inflorescence reduced to a subsessile interrupted spike. 
_ Var. y rubella (sp.) Boott Carex, iv. 176, t. 599; infl. a single terminal pyr 
midal dense head $ in. diam.— Ceylon (C.P. 2629). 
Var.? 3 rostrata, Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 369; utricles nearly twice PM 
narrower evidently beaked nearly smooth, glumes muticous. (CE. T xd a var. 
355].—CgvroN; Thw. (C.P. 2629).— This appears from description scarcely 
of C. spicigera, but I have failed to find it among Thwaites C.P. 2629. 
*** in each 
Spikes long-cylindric. Peduncles mostly solitary, sometimes 2, le in C 
sheath (cf. C. arridens, n. 78.). [Terminal spike sometimes wholly ma 
desponsa and C. prestans. ] 
d 
67. C. baccans, Nees in Wight Contrib. 122; robust, leaves fy 
bracts long, panicle oblong or linear-oblong, fem. glumes striate finally 
throughout their width, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid-trigonous gibbons ui 
berried, beak short ultimately minute. Kunth Enum. ii. 513; Thw. a, xl. 
355; Boott Carez, ii. 83, tt. 234-236 and 238, 239; Boeck. in Linney, 
339; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 82. C. curvirostri oud in 
Suppl. 79, t. 20; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 350. C. recurvirostris, Link ms. 
Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 60, and Cyp. 207. C. dolicophylla, ^^ 
(fide Boeckeler). 
ATS 
SIKKIM and KrastA to the Naga Hrs: alt. 2500-7000 ft. Ma LABAR E: 
to CEYLON; alt. 3-6000 ft.—DisTRIB. Java, Sumatra, China, Philippines. stems. 
Glabrous. Rhizome very stout, short, horizontal, with SECH 12-18 
Stems often 3 ft. Leaves often overtopping inflorescence, 3 in. broad. : 
