Cyperaces} THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 41] 
and New Holland; Scleria and Remirea in the intratropical parts, both of the New and 
the Old, with Lipocarpha and Hypolytrum in those of the whole world; Eleogenus and 
Haplostylis in the hot parts, both of America and Asia. The genera Fuirena, Fimbristylis, 
and Zrichelostylis, as well as Isolepis and Eleocharis, are found in tropical parts of the 
world ; but all have species in the southern hemisphere, as in New Holland ; Fuirena, 
Trichelostylis, and Isolepis, at the Cape of Good Hope, and also in the northern hemi- 
sphere ; as all, except Trichelostylis, extend into the warm parts of N. America, One 
species of Fuirena, F. annua, is found in the S, of Europe, and species of Isolepis, 
Eleocharis and Eleogiton, (E. fluitans, Link.), in the British Isles ; so Rhynchospora, 
which has a few species in the southern provinces of the United States, with two in 
Europe, has also one species in the Himalayas ; and that a apace (R. sabia iahea which 
has also been found in China. j . | 
_ The genera Scirpus and Carer are the most numerous in spiecies; and are also the 
most widely diffused, being found in marshy situations, both in hot and cold parts of 
the world, as well within the tropics as in high latitudes ; so do we find species of 
both genera, as well in the plains as in the mountains of India, and in the. Himalayas 
we have some species which are also found in Europe and America. ' t 
Many species of genera which delight only in hot and moist ‘climates are, aS we 
have seen in other families, found in the Himalayas in the rainy season, as species of 
Cyperus, Mariscus, Kyllingia, Lipocarpha, Fimbristylis, Trichelostylis, Isolepis, Scirpus, 
Eleocharis, and Hypoporum, Eriophorum is a genus of which the species are found in 
Europe and N, America, and one, £. comosum, is extensively distributed in the 
Himalayas, both in low valleys and on elevated mountains, as well as in Kunawur. 
Dichostylis Micheliana, found in the S, of Europe and N.of Africa, extends also to Delhi, 
in the north-western part of India. Uncinia and Trilepis, genera with the habit of 
Carex, have each a species in the Himalayas, U. Nepalensis, being found in Nepal, as 
well as in Kunawur; Trilepis Royleana in Chango, and Lippa in Kunawur; and 
the only other species, Z. Lhotzkiana, is found in the mountains of Brazil; and 
Kobresia, +a genus of the mountains of iit has a ee KK on in Kunawur, 
found at Rogee and Nachagaon. 
The Carices, in the Author’s collection, Aeucsitadt by Prohaiee Nees von jEmetibesk, 
have also been examined by Dr. Boott, who is so well acquainted with the genus. He 
states that, including the four undescribed species in the E. 1. Herbarium, fifty-two 
species of Carev have been found in India; of these seventeen are found in each of the 
collections made by Drs. Wallich and Wight,.and by myself; eleven occur only, in Dr, 
Wallich’s, and five are peculiar to that of Dr. Wight, while twenty belong exclusively 
to that of the Author, making in all thirty-seven species, all of which were found in the 
Himalayas, and none in the plains of India. Among these are three which are common 
to Europe and India, being the only ones yet found in that country which are identical _ 
with European species: these are, C. paludosa and C. remota, found in the Hima- 
Jayas; the latter also in Kunawur. C. Vahlii, obtained from Pungee, in Kunawur, 
3a2 differing 
