724 CLXXIL CYPERACEX. (C. D. Clarke.) [ Carex. 
lowest peduncle exsert 5 in. Partial panicles 4 by 14, appearing as if simple with 
distant whorls of sessile spikes. Spikes 1% in., throughout the plant many male, 
many with only one basal fem. Utricle with many, not prominent, nerves.—This 
may be a sexual (nearly male) state of C. Myosurus, as Duthie regarded it. 
70. C. spiculata, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 288, and in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xx. 189 and Carer, i. 3, t. 7; leaves narrow, spikes denser with 
obliquely ascending fruits, panicle more rigid (otherwise as C. Myosurus, 
var. f). 
SIKKIM ; alt. 1-2000 ft., common.  KnmHasra Ertrag alt. 250-6000 ft., very 
common. uu 
Uıricle ellipsoid, trigonous ; lanceolate upwards ; beak as though short cylindric, 
the strong margins of the utricle carried up the beak as winged margins.— oot 
says separable from C. Myosurus by the glabrous utricles, but in Boott's own 
material the utricle is more or less hairy—just as in C. Myosurus. 
Var. nobilis (sp.) Boott Carer, i. 4, tt. 9, 10, 11; infl. large compound, Tipe 
utricle more spreading their short beaks somewhat recurved. C. pandata, Boot 
ms.—Jaintea Hills; alt. 3500-5000 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke.—This local form 
very striking, and is named C. nobilis by Boott in Herb. Hook. ; but the C. nobis 
Boott, tt. 9, 10, 11, appear large forms of C. spiculata, leading on to the Jaintea 
plant. 
71. ©. composita, Boott Careg, i. 3, t.8; leaves long narrow, panicle 
long narrow, spikes in fruit dense, fem. glumes brown-margined em" 
often overtopping beak of fruit, style 3-fid, utricle small obovoid py" 
midal-compressed at top hairy nearly or quite nerveless beak very sma ` 
Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 328; C; B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 82. 
Myosurus, Boo£t ms. (partly). 
From Buoran, Griffith, to Merev, Grifith, Knasta Hiris; alt. 3-6000 ft-, 
J. D. H., &c., and east to NAGA HILLS. : in 
_ Glabrous, except utricles, Rhizome creeping ; stolons often 3-6 in. by P ; 
diam. Stems 2 ft. Leaves usually (with bracts) overtopping stems, o M- est 
caudate-setaceous rough-tipped. ` Ia, 6-12 in., narrow, 6-15-spiked ; 
peduncle usually short 4—1-spiked, occasionally more distant long filiform. em. 
usually 1-15 in., sometimes nearly 3 in., and much broader with very o, ble 
glumes. Utricle short-stalked, green then stramineous.—Primarily distinguish 
from C. Myosurus and C. spiculata by the nerveless utricles. 
72. C. desponsa, Boott Careg, ii. 89, t. 228; leaves long narrow, 
peduneles 3-7 very distant 1-spiked, terminal spike with fem. at ele 
wholly male, fem. glume small ovate cuspidate, style 3-fid, utricle ^ 
ellipsoid trigonous nervose glabrous, beak linear 3 utricle. 
Knasra Hiris, alt. 5-60 i oads, J. D. H. 
Glabrous, Rhizome woody, t eeng and Mairung f in. , Leaves sac? 
overtopping stem, 3-4 in. broad ; lower spikes 3-6 in. apart, Jong-peduncled. Pons 
1} by } in, lax, ferruginous green. Utricle (including beak) } in., Fo , 
or brown-red, beak sparsely scabrous with 2 small teeth.—Boott likens this an 
longipes, Don in general habit. It does not seem really allied to Oo Myosurus, ith 
the terminal spike being not ; ity is perhaps nob W' 
the Sect. Indice. g rarely wholly male, its true affinity 15 P 
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73. C. scitula, Boott Carex, iv. (1867), 177, t. 600; stems slende 
tufted, leaves overtopping i i i -7 oblong € lindric dense 
comose from browne, ae infl linear, spikes 3-7 oblong cy” ate, style 
ed stigmas, fem. glumes lanceolate acumin 
