330 Mr. D. Don's Descriptions of Nine new Species 



6". C. setigera, trigyna ; vaginis elongatis sulcatis, spicis cylindra- 

 ceis strictis apice masculis ; terminalibus omnind masculis, 

 glumis laih ellipticis aristatis, arillis ovalibus triquetris 

 rostratis scabris. 

 Habitat in Nepaliae alpibus. Wallich. 1/ . 



Radix repens. Culmi erecti, pedales v. sesquipedales, foliosi, 

 obtusfe trigoni, infern^ teretes, glabri, striati. Folia line- 

 aria, plana, rigida, subtus carinata, glabra, supra scabra, 

 laetfe viridia, apice mucronata ; radicalia culmo longiora, 

 basi sanguinea, et in vaginam longam cylindraceam, more 

 Caricis ampullacecB, rudimentis fibrosis connexam imbri- 

 cata. Bractea inferiores longissimae, foliis similes ; sii- 

 prema setaceae : vaginis sesqui- v. bipollicaribus, glabris, 

 sulcatis. Pedunculi stricti, ancipiti-compressi, striati, om- 

 nino, nisi apices, laeves, vaginis bractearum longiores, ipsi 

 infra medium propria vaginul^ instructi. Spica fcemineae 

 strictae, plures (4 — 5), sesqui- v. bipollicares, cylindraceae, 

 densae, apice semper masculae ; inferioribus remotis, lon- 

 giiis pedunculatis ; masculinis terminalibus, paucis (2 — 3), 

 sessilibus, strictis, foemineis non absimilibus. Glumes lath 

 ellipticae, ferrugineae, nitidae, margine scarioso argenteo, 

 nervo lutescente ultra ipsius squamae apicem in aristam 

 setaceam producto. Arilli ovales, triquetri, rostrati, sca- 

 bri, apice emarginati, glumis breviores. 



The habit of this species approaches near to Carex ampullacea ; 

 but the obtuse glumes and the smooth inflated fruit in that spe- 

 cies will prevent their being confounded. 



*** Spicis sexu distinctis, masculis subsolitariis. 

 7. C. chlorostachys, trigyna; vaginis nuUis, spicis foemineis cy- 

 lindraceis erectis pedunculatis ; masculis solitariis, glumis 



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