326 Mr. D. Don’s Descriptions of Nine new Species 
with him, that it will be found, perhaps, expedient to divide it 
into several genera: for Carer, as at present constituted, may 
rather be regarded as a tribe of the family Cyperacee, than as 
constituting a solitary genus. 
* Spicá compositd, androgynà. 
1. C. nubigena, digyna; spiculis sub-novenis ovatis confertis, 
arillis ovatis striatis rostratis bifidis margine denticulato- 
scabris, glumis ovatis acuminatis, culmo striato nudo in- 
ferné tereti, foliis involutis. : 
Habitat in summis alpibus Nepaliæ. Wallich. x. 
Radix fibrosa, cæspitosa. Culmi numerosi, erecti, palmares 
v. nunc fere pedales, striati, glabri, nudi, fistulosi, lenti, in- 
fernè, e medio ad basin usque, teretes, apice ancipiti-com- 
pressi; altero latere convexo. Folia angustè linearia, acuta, 
glabra, pallide viridia, culmis breviora, primó erecta, dein 
recurvata, subtüs striata, semilineam lata, apicem versus 
attenuata, margine aspere crebrèque denticulata. Bractee 
. anguste lineares, striate, apice attenuate et triquetræ, 
marginibus dorsoque scabræ, spicà dupló triplóve longio- 
res. Vagine nulle. Spica composita, densa, ferè un- 
cialis. Spicule ovate, 6, 8, sæpids 9 confertæ, 2 lineas 
longæ. Glume ovate, argenteæ, nitide, demüm rufe- 
scentes, dein apice decidente arillis breviores: nervo va- 
lido scabro, in acumen deciduum ultra squamam ipsam 
producto. Arilli subrotundo-ovati, rostrati, striati, suprà 
concaviusculi, subtüs convexi, apice bifidi et incurvi; 
margine inferiore alato ac inermi; superiore denticulis | 
scabro. 
The rounded naked culms of this species, and its involute 
leaves, which give it a distant resemblance to some species of 
Scirpus, 
