Carex. | CLVI. CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). 
Utricle (often minutely) hairy. 
Utricle more than + in. long, linear-lanceolate ; 
nut stalked c : : : 
Utricle about 2 in. long, ellipsoid, beaked. 
Panicles on axillary peduncles, open pyramidal 13. 
Panicles on axillary peduncles, dense, oblong . 
Spikes linear-cylindrie, 1 in. long at least, 
Utricle exceeding + in. in length, linear-lanceolate 16. 
ells 
Utricle 3-2 in. long, ellipsoid 
trStem with 5-10 elongate cylindric spikes; terminal 
spike male at the base, with (nearly always) utricles 
in the upper part. 
Lower spikes male at the base. 
Utricles 1-1 in. long, scabrous on the beak 
Utricles 4 in, long, smooth on the beak 
Lower spikes female at the base; utricles 4 in, long. 
Beak of utricle minute, subentire 
. 14. 
15. 
515 
C. Steudneri. 
C. spicato- 
paniculata, 
C. condensata. 
C. Johnstonii. 
CO. Vallis-Rosetto. 
C. simensis, 
. C. longepedunculata. 
. C. petitiana. 
. C. Fischeri. 
Beak 4-3 the length of the utricles, bifid 
++tStem with 5-12 elongate cylindric spikes; terminal 
spike wholly male, or (rarely) with some utricles at 
the base. 
Utricles straight, narrowed upwards into the beak . 22. C. boryana. 
Utricles curved, inflated upwards, suddenly contracted 
into the minute beak . 23. C. cyrtosaccus, 
1. C. monostachya, 4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 512. Glabrous. 
Rhizome short. Stems tufted, 8—22 in. long, triquetrous, rough on the 
angles ; basal sheaths chestnut-red. Leaves often as long as the stems, 
hardly } in. broad, triquetrous in the upper part. Spike 1 on each 
stem, 1} by } in., male at the top, female below, from chestnut-red to 
ferrugineous-brown. Female glumes }-} in. long, lanceolate, acute; 
margins scarious. Anthers } in. long, linear. Utricle (without beak) 
nearly } in. long, narrowly obovoid, obtuse, very much compressed, 
indistinctly nerved, glabrous, rarely slightly scabrid; beak exactly 
linear, }—} the length of the utricle, very shortly split; rhachilla of 
the rudimentary spikelet linear, green, included in one margin of the 
utricle, often as long as the nut. Nut narrowly ellipsoid, flattened, 
much narrower than the utricle ; style 4 as long as the nut, branches 2, 
much longer than the nut, red-brown, conspicuously exserted.—Boott, 
Carex, ii. 80, t. 221; Boeck in Linnea, xxxix. 80; Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. 
Trop. Afr. 151; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
v. 687; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129. C. parasitica, Kunze, 
Suppl. Schkuhr’s Riedgr. 83 in note. (. triquetrifolia, Boeck. in Engl. 
Jahrb. vii. 279; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 353; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 153. Uncinia digyna, Hochst. in Schimper, 
Exsicc. 687. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen; Mount Silke, Schimper, 687! Mount Bachi:, 
Schimper! Begemeder; Mount Guna, 13,100 ft., Schimper, 1413! and without 
precise locality, Schimper, 83! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 12,300 ft. Volkevs, 
1146! Johnston, 120! 
