of the Genus Carex. 331 



ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis apice scabris, arillis ventri- 

 cosis costatis apice rostratis bifurcis glum^ longioribus. 

 Habitat in Nepaliae alpibus. Wallich. % . 



Radix fibrosa. Culmi erecti, pedales, acute triquetri, sulcati, 

 virides : angulis aspere serrulatis. Folia linearia, plana, 

 utrinque viridia, nervosa, membranacea, acuminata, cul- 

 mis saepfe longiora, erecta, 2 lineas lata, supra margineque 

 asper^ denticulata. Bractece foliaceai, lath lineares, viri- 

 des, apicem culmi superantes : vaginis nullis. Pedunculi 

 semiunciam longi v. ultra, capillares, triquetri, scabri, 

 SpiccB fceminece 4, erectae, poUicem v. sesquipoUicem longae, 

 cylindraceae, crassiusculae, omnino virentes ; masculince so- 

 litariae, terminales, brev^ pedicellatae, unciales, filiformes. 

 GlumcB foeminecB ovato-lanceolatae, acuminatae, arillis bre- 

 viores, virentes, apice scabrae ; mascula ovato-oblongae, 

 argenteffi, mucronatae, apice asperae. ArilU ovati aut el- 

 liptici, ventricosi, longfe rostrati, bifurci, virides, costati, 

 laeves. 



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 Nepaliae alpibus. Wallich. % . 



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