of the Genus Carex. 331 
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis apice scabris, arillis ventri- 
cosis costatis apice rostratis bifurcis glumá longioribus. 
Habitat in Nepali: alpibus. Wallich. x. 
Radix fibrosa. Culmi erecti, pedales, acutè triquetri, sulcati, 
virides: angulis aspere serrulatis. Folia linearia, plana, 
utrinque viridia, nervosa, membranacea, acuminata, cul- 
mis sæpè longiora, erecta, 2 lineas lata, suprà margineque 
aspere denticulata.  Bracteæ foliaceæ, latè lineares, viri- 
des, apicem culmi superantes: vaginis nullis. Pedunculi 
semiunciam longi v. ultrà, capillares, triquetri, scabri. 
Spice feminec 4, erectæ, pollicem v. sesquipollicem longæ, 
cylindraceæ, crassiusculæ, omnino virentes ; masculine so- 
litariæ, terminales, breve pedicellatæ, unciales, filiformes. 
Glume feminee ovato-lanceolatæ, acuminatæ, arillis bre- 
viores, virentes, apice scabrw; mascule ovato-oblongæ, 
argenteæ, mucronate, apice asperæ. — Arilli ovati aut el- 
liptici, ventricosi, longè rostrati, bifurci, virides, costati, 
leves. 
The Carex Pseudo-cyperus, to which our plant is next akin, 
differs from it in the female spikes being drooping ; the glumes, 
both male and female, being terminated by a long rough spinu- 
lose point; in the fruit being shorter than the glumes, more 
strongly ribbed, and deeply forked. The leaves are also rougher 
above, and the whole plant nearly twice the size. 
8. C. lenticularis, digyna ; vaginis nullis, spicis foemineis filifor- 
: mibus pedunculatis patulis; masculis solitariis peduncu- 
latis, glumis cuneatis: acumine longo spinuloso, arillis 
cuneato-orbiculatis papilloso-micantibus compressis mar- 
ginatis. 
Habitat in Nepaliæ alpibus. Wallich. y. 
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