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 Carex, as at present constituted, may 

 rather be regarded as a tribe of the family Cyperacea, than as 

 constituting a solitary genus. 



* Spied compositd, androgynd. 



1. C. nubigena, digyna; spiculis sub-novenis ovatis confertis, 

 arillis ovatis striatis rostratis bifidis margine denticulato- 

 scabris, glumis ovatis acuminatis, culmo striato nudo in- 

 femh tereti, foliis involutis. 

 Habitat in summis alpibus Nepaliae. Wallich. ll . 



Radix fibrosa, caespitosa. Culmi numerosi, erecti, palmares 

 V. nunc fer^ pedales, striati, glabri, nudi, fistulosi, lenti, in- 

 femfe, e medio ad basin usque, teretes, apice ancipiti-com- 

 pressi ; altero latere convexo. Folia angust^ linearia, acuta, 

 glabra, pallid^ viridia, culmis breviora, prim6 erecta, dein 

 recurvata, subtiis striata, semilineam lata, apicem versus 

 attenuata, margine asperfe crebr^que denticulata. Bractea 

 angustfe lineares, striatae, apice attenuatas et triquetrae, 

 marginibus dorsoque scabra, spic^ duple!) tripl^ve longip- 

 res. Vagina nullae. Spica composita, densa, fer^ un- 

 cialis. Spicul(Z ovatae, 6, 8, saepi^is 9 confertae, 2 lineas 

 longae. Glumcz ovatae, argenteae, nitidae, dem{im rufe- 

 scentes, dein apice decidente arillis breviores : iiervo va- 

 lido scabro, in acumen deciduum ultra squamam ipsam 

 producto. Arilli subrotundo-ovati, rostrati, striati, supra 

 concaviusculi, subtils 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, 



