732 CLXXI. GYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Carex. 
GuRWHAL; alt, 13—14,000 ft., Duthie (n. 4499), SIKKIM; alt. 11-15,000 ft., 
J. D. H.. &c. 
May be esteemed a var. of C. atrata, but the utricle is not $ the breadth, so 
that the nut though smaller than that of C. atrata, nearly fills it. The lowest 
peduncle is usually less than 4 in., the glumes are acuminate to a long linear obtuse 
black point exceeding the utricles. 
Var. B glacialis; stems 2-6 in., leaves much shorter than stems, spikes very 
small (sometimes 4 by 3 in.), utricles small very little inflated. C. atrata, var. 
glacialis, Boott Carew, iii. 114, t. 365.—N. Sikkim alt. 15-17,000 ft., J. D. H. 
97. C. nivalis, Boolt in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 256 and in Trans. Linn. 
Noc. xx. 136 and Garen, i. 13, t. 35 (partly); terminal spike wholly male or 
fem. at top, utricle broad much compressed often of thin texture with 
minute beak, nut stalked exceedingly small (otherwise as C. atrata). 
Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73; Boeck. in Linnaa, xl. 400. C. cinnamomea 
& Griffithii, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. L c. 257, 286, and in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. l.e. 136, 138. C. Oliveri, Boeck. in Flora, lxi. 455, and in Journ. 
Linn, Soc. xviii. 104. 
HIMALAYA and W. TIBET, alt. 11-17,000 ft., common; from the KABAEOBUM, 
Thomson, &c., to SIKKIM, J. D. H.—DisTRIB. Cabul, Central Asia. Ave 
Boott states (Carex, i. 13) that he finally doubted whether this was distinct on 
C. atrata, and it is certainly not, unless Boott’s sorting is altered. In C. mva 
the utricle has concavo-convex very acute margins; its texture is very thin becom ng 
often scarious purple or pale. The colour of the glumes varies excessively, being 
black-red in the type plant, cinnamomeous in the N.-W. Himalaya, yellow-brown es 
Karakorum, becoming pale yellow or green yellow in the extreme form ; the ew e 
in all these forms are concolorous (or nearly so) with the glumes. In C. nwa pi 
in C. atrata) there occur alpine forms with stems 2-3 in. high. It appear? Ae 
Fischer's collections that Ledebour, Turczanimow, &c., must have included this y ur 
C. atrata,—C. Griffithii, Boott is founded on Griffith, n. 78, which has, In tha ott 
infl. of this number, the terminal spike wholly male, and is so described by b. ard 
Subsequently Boott mixed with this (undoubtedly correctly) both in Kew Herb. Ae 
in his own Griffith n. 142 (from Cabul also) which has in the five infl. seen Ke C 
terminal spike (decisively) fem, at top. This is exactly the plant publisher erent 
Oliveri by Boeckeler, who relying on the terminal spike supposed it must be d! Ke gl 
from C. Griffithii. From the large quantity seen by me I should say the Gores” 
spike was about as frequently female at top as wholly male. In his “Til 
Boott reduces his C. cinnamomea to his C. nivalis, but does not refer to his V 
Grifithii. 
98. C. psychrophila, Nees in Wight Contrib. 197 ; spikes RM 
mate cylindric lowest peduncled, style 3-fid, utricles ellipsoid et" 
smooth pale green suddenly narrowed into a linear-oblong scabrous Boott 
not inflated. Kunth Enum. ii. 463; Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73 ^" CO 
Carex, i. 70, t. 191 (excl. Royle, n. 1012) Beet, in Linnea, xl. 0% ta, 
asperula, Nees l. e 194; Kunth l.c. 433 (not of Turez.). C. parvibrac 
Nees l.c. 125; Kunth lc. 433. C. celsa, Boott L o. iii. 108, t. 330. 
HIMALAYA ; from Kasur, alt. 8-10,000 ft., C. B. Clarke, to Brno 
12,000 ft., J. D. H. ; frequent, ) 3 as long 
Glabrous. Rhizome creeping. Stems 1-2 ft., rather slender. Leaves 3 1 spike 
as stems, ¢—} in. wide, weak. Spikes 4—4 by 4 in. (in fruit), dense; termina’ | e 
nearly always fem. at top, occasionally wholly male; lowest spike often 
distant, on a peduncle 3-13 in. Glumes small, ovate, triangular-tipped, i 
with or without a yellowish keel. Uzricle small, obscurely nerved, thin; = utricle 
nearly filing utricle; exsert part of the 3 style-branches ‘much shorter than, 
(beax included), beak about $ utricle, rather deeply 2-fid. —Not nearly allie 
alt. 
