Carex. | CLXXIL OYPERACEE, (C. B. Clarke.) 143 
127. C. setigera, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 330, & Prodr. 43; 
stoloniferous, spikes 4—8 cylindric distant, terminal 1 (or 2-3) male, lowest 
fem. peduncled erect, fem. glumes ovate often aristate, style 3-fid, utricles 
ovoid hispid suddenly narrowed into small oblong notched beak. Nees in 
Wight Contrib. 126; Kunth Enum. ii. 515 (partly); Boeck. in Linnea, xli. 
189 (excl, Boott, t. 6, cited). C. hymenolepis, Nees l.c. 126; Kunth Le 
505. C. setigera, var. minor, Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73 (not Boott).— 
Carex, Wall. Cat. 3385. 
Himataya, alt. 7-10,000 ft., frequent, from Mussoorie, Jacquemont, to Sikkim, 
J. D. H., and Phari, G. King. 
Stems 1-2 ft. Leaves 
Glabrous. Rhizome long, creeping, ig in. in. diam. 
nearly as long as stem, i-i in. broad. Spikes 1}-2 in. long (in the typical C. 
hymenolepis, hardly half as much in the var. chroolepis, Dreier), fem. up to 4 in. 
broad (but not more than à in. broad in smaller forms referred here) ; lowest fem. 
spike often male at top, rather lax, often interrupted at base. Fem. glumes as long 
as utricle, with a bristle much overtopping utricle in the standard form (which is 
often small or disappears) usually with bright brown sides and scarious margins (but 
the colour of male and fem. glumes varies widely). Utricle 35-3, in., brown-green, 
very hispid, nerveless, strongly 2-edged, the concave face only obscurely ridged by _ 
the angle of nut, margined by the incurved edges, Nut ellipsoid, trigonous, nar- 
rowed much at base, dark brown; style slender, glabrous, base not dilated; exsert 
part of branches about as long as utricle. 
.128. C. Schlagintweitiana, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. i. 48; stoloniferous, 
spikes 3-6 very small cylindric distant pale, terminal 1 (or 2) male, lowest 
fem. peduncled erect, fem. glumes ovate often mucronate, style 3-fid, 
utricle very small ovoid hispid suddenly narrowed into small oblong 
potched beak. C. setigera, var. 8 minor, Boott Carez, i. 2, t. 6, fig. 1 (not 
g. 2). 
N.W. HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft. ; Kashmir, C. B. Clarke; Nynee Tal, Thomson ; 
Simla, Schlagintweit (n. 5039), &e. SIND, Pinwill.—DisTRIB. Yarkand. | 
Stolons numerous, long. Stems 4-10 in., slender. Leaves overtopping stem, 
s in. broad. Fem. spikes (in fruit) } by ~5-§ in, weak. Utricles hardly d. in. 
long.— Otherwise as C. setigera, Don, from which this differs mainly in size. 
129. C. inanis, Kunth Enum. ii. 522; spikes 4-12 cylindric approxi- 
mate, terminal one male, fem. glumes ovate sometimes mucronate, style 
9-fid, utricle small ovoid trigonous hispid suddenly narrowed into a small 
notched beak. C. setigera, 8 minor, Bolt Carex, i. 2, t. 6 (mostly, i.e. 
fig. 2). C. setigera, y humilis, Nees in Wight Contrib. 126. ` C. setigera, 
var. fascicularis, Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73. C. setigera, Kunth Enum. 
ii. 515 (partly).—Carex sp. (Royle, n. 122), Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 120. 
HIMALAYA, alt. 7-10,000 ft. ; from Kashmir, C. B. Clarke, to Sikkim, J. D.H. 
Rhizome divided, short, i. e. arises from lateral offsetts not from elongate sto ons. 
Stems 2-15 in., slender. Leaves overtopping stem, narrow. Bracts very ong, con- 
Spicuously overtopping infi. Spikes (in fruit) $ by à in. dense, grey “ere upper 
often fascicled, lowest sometimes a little distant, short-peduncled, occasionally carry. 
ing 3-4 spikes, Fem. glumes frequently muticous, the midrib sometimes shortly 
excurrent. Utricle much smaller than in C. setigera, Don, more turgid, without 
One face concave.—Spikes much denser than those of C. setigera, Don. 
ie; spl 3-6 short-cylindric 
130. C. kashmirensis, C. B. Clarke; spikes 3-6 8 
Approximate, terminal 1-3 male, fem. glumes ovate muticous, style 3-fid, 
utricle ellipsoid lanceolate trigonous hispid acuminated into oblong deeply 
bifid beak. C. hirtella, Boott ms. (partly). 
