TAR, 2 aOGs 
CAREX BAOCCANS.* 
Native of South-East Asia. 
Nat. Ord. Cyrperacea. Tribe Caricez. 
Genus Carex, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 1078), 
Carex baccans; robusta, foliis bracteisque longis, paniculé magna laxa 
oblong& vel lineari-oblongé, spicis numerosis longius cylindraceis basi 
foomineis apice masculis, glumis foomineis ovatis acutis seepissime cuspi- 
datis per totam fere latitudinem longitudinaliter striatis, utriculis 
ovoideis trigonis gibbosis proventu baccantibus rubris, rostro parvulo 
brevissimo bifido. . 
©. baccans, Nees in Wight Contrib. [1834] p. 122; Kunth. Enum. vol. ii. 
p. 513; Thwaites Enum. Pl. Zeyl. p. 855; Boott Carex vol. ii. p. 83, 
tt. 234, 235, 236, 238, 239; Bock. in Linnea, vol. xl. [1876] p. 389; C. B. 
Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxv. [1889] p. 82. 
C. a Kunze Suppl. Riedgr. p. 79, t. 20; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. iii. 
p- ° 
C. recurvirostris, Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. Heft ii. p. 60, et Syn. PT: 
Glum. vol. ii. p. 207. » 
C. dolicophylla, Link. ms, (fide Boeckeler). 
‘ 
This plant extends from North East India to Ceylon, 
Malaya, Tonkin, China, and the Philippines. It is plenti- 
ful at an altitude of two thousand five hundred to seven 
thousand feet, in Sikkim, and the whole Khasi range. 
Here, as in the Kew plant-houses, when fully ripe it 1s a 
prominent and unmistakable plant. Till the utricles are 
more than half-ripe it is exceedingly difficult to distinguish 
it from some Himalayan forms of C. Myoswrus, Nees 
(C. floribunda, Back), and it may be doubted if even 
Boott has sorted all the imperfectly-ripe herbarium 
material aright. Probably the best character for this 
purpose is the broad not striated edge of the female glume 
* T am indebted to my friend, Mr. CO. B. Clarke, who is engaged upon a 
FoR Ne of the whole Order Cyperacex, for the above account of 
cans, 
Aprit Ist, 1893. 
