742 CLXXI. CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Carex. 
260, & in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 199 (not of Drejer). C. Neesiana, Arnott 
ms. (not of Endl.). 
CEYLON, Gardner, &c., alt. 6-7000 ft., Thwaites. . . 
Glabrous. Stems 2-3 ft., rather stout. Leaves often overtopping stem, i m. 
broad. Spikes very close together, subsessile; lowest sometimes 13 in. distant on A 
lin. peduncle; bracts very long. Fem. spikes 2 by 4-3 in., rigid. Uiricie DE 
spreading, hardly deflexed, longer than glumes, thin but somewhat succulent ; d. 
concolorous less than 4 length of utricle. Nut ellipsoid, trigonous, subsessile, 
pyramidal at top, shortly apiculate, dark-brown. 
194. C. lurida, C. B. Clarke; spikes 4-5 distant cylindric, termine! 
2-3 male purple, lower fem. erect peduncled dense, fem. glumes Zb 
aristate, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid inflated thin lurid glabrous su d 
narrowed into a deeply bifid beak with 2 spreading prominent linear t et 
C. rostrata, Boeck. in Linnæa, xli. 317 (the Sikkim plant). C. ampullacea, 
var. Boott ms.—Caricis sp. (n. 1067), Grif. Itin. Notes, 194. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen, alt. 9-12,000 ft., J. D. H. BHOTAN; Chupcha, 
alt. 8000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6066). - 
Male glumes Sege with green keel, triangular tipped. Fem. glumes purple 
red on sides, the 3-nerved yellow back excurrent in a rigid scabrous aristi, samples 
long as utricle. Utricles in size and shape about equalling those of smal ext teeth 
of C. rostrata, but different in colour; beak 2-fid very deeply into on seen 
finally stellately divaricate, conspicuous.—Boott observes that he has ne 
such fem. glumes as these in C. rostrata. 
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125. C. fuscifructus, C. B. Clarke; spikes 3-6 suberect one? 
distant, terminal one male greenish, lower fem. cylindric d atricles 
peduncled, fem. glumes lanceolate acute mucronate pale, style 3-fid, 
k ` tl 
ovoid fuscous many-nerved glabrous, beak oblong conic very long shorty 
2-fid. 
Assam; Luckimpore, alt. 300 ft., C. B. Clarke. A 
Glabrous, stoloniferons, Stems 15 in., rather stout. Leaves overtopping sy» 
scarcely i in. broad. Lowest spike sometimes as much as 3 in. distant on * green 
peduncle, usually much closer; bracts 1 ft. Male spike 14 in., glumes vo Y porter 
on back, aristate. Fem. spikes 14 by ł—-} in.; glumes 3-nerved, rat " at base, 
than utricles, scabrous-pointed.  Ufricle nearly 4 in., conically narrow 
somewhat inflated ; exserted part of style-branches hardly i utricle. 
*** Utricle hairy, or minutely setulose. 
126. €. flacca, Schreb. Spicil. FI. Lips. Append. n. 669; spikes 
distant long-cylindrie, terminal 3-2 male, fem. glumes ovate ts-scabrous, 
3-fid rarely 2-fid, utricle ellipsoid turgid obtuse puberulons- 1,& 
beak minute subentire. Host Gram. Austr. i. 06, t. 90; t. ^ t 459 ; 
t. Zz, fig. 113. C. glauca, Scop. Carn. ii. 223; Kunth fuum Boeck. 
Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 29, t. 269; Drejer Symb. Caric. 20, t. 95 
in Linnea, xli. 187. 
SIND, Pinwill,—Temp. N. Hemisphere. . ing rhizome 
Glabrous, glaucous. Siolons long, hardening into a creeping brand, ars 
15 in. long in a Sind example. Stems 8-18 in. Leaves 3 stem, $ rid in. in 
Fem. spikes 1} by 1 in., dense in fruit; male spikes often longer, a -peduncled 
examples. Lowest spike short-peduncled, erect, or if very remote ent in. 
long-sheathed; bracts usually about as long as infl, Utricle small, a 
the Sind plant, obscurely trigonous. 
