of the Genus Carea. 329 
rostrati, costati, setis numerosis exiguis scaberrimi, glumis 
breviores, apice alté bifurci. 
This species agrees in some respects with the Carex hirta ; but 
this last belongs to a different section, having terminal, distinct, 
male spikes; the leaves are also green, and generally clothed 
with soft hairs ; the fruit is hairy, with a shorter beak, constantly 
longer than the glumes, which are broader, more scariose, and 
terminated by a much shorter and less rigid point. In the male 
spikes the glumes are broad, ferrugineous, and shortly pointed. 
The Carex hirta being trigynous is also an important differential 
mark. 
5. C. longipes, digyna; vaginis elongatis pedunculo 4-pló bre- 
vioribus, spicis cylindraceis erectis apice masculis, glumis 
ellipticis aristatis, arillis ovatis costatis glabris rostratis. 
Habitat in Nepali: alpibus. Wallich. x. 
Radix fibrosa. Culmus erectus, lentus, sesquipedalis, obtuse 
trigonus, sulcatus, glaber, nitidus. Folia linearia, plana, 
viridia, striata, lineam lata, margine scabra, culmis bre- 
viora, apice mucronata. Bracteæ foliaceæ, pedunculorum 
longitudine: vaginis elongatis, sulcatis, glabris, pollicari- 
bus v. ultrà. Pedunculi erecti, graciles, ancipiti-compressi, 
4—7 polliceslongi: angulis apicem versus scabris. Spice 
cylindraceæ, erectæ, pollicares, simplices, rard basi spi- 
culâ unicá laterali auctæ, apice semper terminate spiculá 
masculà. Glume ellipticæ, pallidè fuscescentes, dorso 
virides, nervo medio in aristam longam scabrè denticula- 
tam producto. Arilli ovati, compressiusculi, aristis glu- 
marum multó breviores, costis pluribus notati, virides, 
apice longiüs rostrati, bifurci, omni parte, nisi rostrum, 
glabri, parüm lucidi. 
6. C. seti- 
