Carex] CLXXIL CYPERACEES. (C. B. Clarke.) 737 
(occasionally fem. at base) small, lower fem. cylindric very dense rigid pale, 
style 3-fid, utricle ovoid glabrous suddenly contracted into a linear-conic 
beak. | Schk. Riedgr. i. 115, t. Ww, fig. 110; Kunth Enum. ii. 517. C. 
Japonica, 8 minor, Boott Carex, ii. 88. C. chlorostachys, Don in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xiv. 330 and Prodr.43. C. Doniana, Spreng. Syst. iii. 825 ; 
Nees in Wight Contrib. 128; Kunth l.c. 503; Boolt in Perry Exped. Jap. 
1t. 327 (Donniana). C. Motoskei, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 148. 
6; ires tyles Franch, et Kavat, Pl. Japon. ii. 152, 58].—Carex, Wall. 
at, . 
NEPAL; Wallich. Ser HIMALAYA ; Herb. Grifith (Kew Distrib. n. 6079) 
Knasra Hts, alt. 5500-6000 ft., frequent, C. B. Clarke. —DisTRiB. Japan. 
. Description of Khasian plant.—Glabrous. Rhizome often 8 in. very slender, 
With pale brown scales. Stems 6-15 in., rather stout, very acutely triquetrous. 
Leaves often as long as stem, 4-4 in. broad. Fem. spikes 4-1 by 4 in., very short- 
peduncled, suberect, green or yellowish, when young almost comose from the brown- 
red styles; terminal spike small, almost concealed among the fem, spikes; bracts 
far overtopping infl. Fem. glumes ovate-lanceolate, aristate, green with scarious 
margins, hardly so long as utricle. Utricles i in, very close-packed, obliquely 
ascending, trigonous, 8-nerved, beak narrow, notched, glabrous or most minutely 
scabrous. Nut ellipsoid, subacute at. both ends, filling the utricle.—None of the 
Khasian specimens match the original C. japonica, described by Thunb. “spicis 
ovatis" and figured by Schkuhr (= C. aphanolepis, Franch. et Savat.). The 
Indian C. japonica is C. chlorostachys, Don, which is near the following var. 
Var. B alopecuroides (sp.) Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 332 & Prodr. 43; tall, 
spikes 2 in. long linear-cylindrie, male spike often as long as female frequently 
female at top, utricle ellipsoid passing almost gradually into oblong beak. Nees in 
Wight Contrib. 128; Boott Careg, ii. 88, t. 258; Boeck. in Linnea, xli. 172. C. 
emodorum, Spreng. Syst. iii. 818; Kunth Enum. ii. 516. C. japonica, Boott Carez, 
1i. 88, t. 257 (excl. var. B); Boeck. l.c. 283. C. Doniina, Drejer Symb. 26, t. 13. 
Carex, Wall. Cat. 3395 A (partly) B. ` 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; alt. 5-7000 ft., J. D. H. KHaAsiA HILLS; Nunklao, alt. 
4-5000 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. MuNEYPooR: alt. 8500 ft., Watt.—DisTRIB. 
Japan. 
Out of 31 spikes collected by me at Nunklao 14 have the terminal spike (mostly 
plentifully) fem. at top. Stems much less 3-winged than in the Khasia C. japonica. 
Both Boott and Boeckeler have reduced this plant to C. japonica, Thunb., but it is 
very unlike it in general aspect ; the principal difference I find in the male spike 
Which is in C. japonica short occasionally female at base, in var. (?) alopecuroides 
ong, frequently fem. at top. 
ll. C. diluta, M. Bieb Fl. Taur. Caucas. ii. p. 388; iii. 614; 
spikes 3-10 distant, terminal one male, lower fem. cylindric dense rusty 
green, glumes shorter than utricle rough-tipped, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid 
obscurely striate glabrous green narrowed into a short-oblong notched 
beak. Kunth Enum. ii. 448; Boott Carex, iv. 139, t. 448 ; Boeck. in 
Linnea, xli. 235; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 425. C. punctata, Gaudin Agrost. ii. 
l ` " i . 9: Kunth l.c. 448; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
(1811), 152 & Fl. Helvet. vi. 106, t. 2; Kunth l.c p Germ. 
vui. 29, t, 251; tt Carex, iv. 155, t. 500; Boeck. Le, 271. 
Kunze Suppl. 31. &. 6, fig. 2. C. rigidifolia, Seu. Fl. Azor. 21, t. 2, 
g. 1. 
0-9000 ft., frequent, C. B. Clarke. KUNA- 
; . 765 
p, Kasma ; Indus Valley, ot 785 Cabul and Central Asia to Lapland and 
WUR; alt. 11,000 ft., Munro.— DISTRIB. 
e Azores. d . variable (in 
Glabrous. Stolons 0. Stems caespitose, 6 in. to3 ft. Leaves very variable (ir 
Indian examples) sometimes less than 4 length of stems 4 in. broad, sometimes 20 
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