men 
Carez.] CLXXII. CYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 135 
small specimens Boott could not sort between C. cruenta and C. ustulata. These 
are very near C. fuliginosa, Schkur, which looks different by reason of its paler 
utricles, C. cruenta no doubt extends to Central Asia, but it is not known under 
what name the Russian botanists record it. 
104. C. maculata, Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 128 and Carez, i. 
9, t. 26; stems 8-24 in. slender, spikes 3-10 cylindric dense rigid dark 
terminal one male paler, lowest remote, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid-triangular 
nervose dark brown glabrous granular beakless gland-dotted to base. Thw. 
Enum. 355; Boeck. inLinnea, xl. 191. C. micans, Boott in Mem. Am. Acad. 
(N. s.) vi. 419. 
Kuasta ; alt. 4000 ft., C. B. Clarke, &c. NinGutrt HILLS; alt. 5000 ft., C. B. 
Clarke, &c. CEYLON; alt. 5000 ft., Thwaites. DISTRIB. Korea, Japan, Australia. 
Glabrous. Rhizome creeping; stems 1-3 together. Leaves nearly as long as 
stem, narrow (hardly more than } in. broad). Fem. spikes nearly 1 in. by 1-1 in. 
in diam. ; lowest (sometimes very remote), peduncled (peduncle often 2-4 in.), upper 
fem. often clustered erect, male slenderer sessile bright brown; bracts overtopping 
the infl, leaf-like, Fem. glumes de in. narrow triangular, sub-3-nerved, pale 
brown with a green centre. Ut¢ricles unequally trigonous, 5-8-nerved on each face. 
Nut sessile, 1—3 utricle. 
.105. C. vicinalis, Boott Carex, iv. 133, t. 428, fig. 2; three upper 
Spikes male, fem. 3 distant long-cylindric dense lowest peduncled, style 
3-fid or occasionally 2-fid, utricle ovoid beakless glabrous minutely 
granular. 
Noen Hints; Schmidt, 2. 
Apparently 3 ft high. Lowest bract about 1 foot, much overtopping infl., not 
sheathing. Male spikes % in., pale bright brown, close together. Fem. spikes 1i by 
ss in., erect; lowest peduncle 2 in.; lowest spike 3 in., distant, Fem. glumes 
elliptic, obtuse, dark purple with green back. Utricle (unripe) Ae in. long, dusky 
grey, obscurely 3—-5-nerved on convex face, triangular at either end ; style-branches 
hardly 4 length of utricle.—Boott compares this species with C. caespititia, Nees ; 
but the style in C. vicinalis appears generally 3-fid. The only specimen consists of 
the top of one stem, as figured by Boott. 
** Utricle glabrous, beak long. 
106. C. Jackiana, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 260 and in Trans. 
Linn, Soc. xx. 132 and Carex, i. 9, t. 25; spikes 3-9 distant, uppermost one 
male, others cylindric-lanceolate, style 3-fid, utricle rather large ellipsoid- 
lanceolate strongly many-nerved glabrous lnrid green gradually narrowed 
Into conic beak. ` Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 353. C. instabilis, Boott ms. ex 
reck, in Linnea, xli. 246. C. papulosa, Boott in Mem. Am. Acad. vi. 
n.s. 418, 
Knasra Hints; alt. 3-6000 ft, Grifith (Kew Distrib. 6090), &c.— DISTRIB. 
ava, Japan, . L anle as 
Glabrous, Stems 2 ft., triquetrous, stoutish, scabrous at top. Leaves nearly as 
1 in., lower usually 3—4 in. apart, then 
ong a ; lj . Spikes 1 by i : 
erect on ste, stout pedoncle, bat rarely a peduncle near base of stem (then of course 
long slender) is added ; spikes lax-fld., sometmes 2-3 in. long with lower flowers 
T@pote; bracts overtopping infl. Fem. glumes ovate, acute, pale, scarious, a ne M 
mucronate. Utricle 4 in., subtrigonous, slightly inflated, very strongly neve ; jen 
as long as nut, notched. Nut obovoid, triquetrous, pale.—The Khasian plant agrees 
very closely with the Javan. . . . 
Var. ? minor; much slenderer, spikes few often few-fld. ovoid, utricle ovoid 
lightly nerved suddenly narrowed into a linear beak. C. Jackiana, Tw. Enum. 
