CXLVI. CYPEEACE.Ti;, 905 



0. Scleria Stocksiana, Boeck. in Linncca^ v. 38 (1874) p. 474. 

 Root fibrous, small ; stem 6-15 in. long, erect, slender, striate, tri- 

 quetrous above, scabrous on the margins, the minute spinules on the 

 upper part pointing upwards, those below pointing downwards. Leaves 

 0-12 in. long, linear, acuminate, | in. broad, multistriate, with scabrous 

 margins. Panicle elongate, slender, the lower branches remote ; sheaths 

 long, striate, truncate, usually hairy at the mouth ; bracts of variable 

 length, leaf-like, yL-i in. broad; bracteoles narrowly linear, acute, much 

 longer than the spikelets. Spikelets with female and androgynous 

 flowers more or less mixed with males, oblong, obtuse. Glumes ovate- 

 lanceolate. Nut -1--^ in. long, exceeding the glumes, globosely ellipsoid, 

 truncate at the base, slightly umbonate at the apex, terete or obsoletely 

 trigonous, densely cancellate-reticulate. Disk 2-seriate, the outer with 

 3 broad rounded spreading lobes, dark-brown \\ith a whitish margin, 

 the 3 inner lobes ovate, acute, closely appressed to the nut, whitish. 

 El. B. I. V. 6, p. 687 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 432. 



KoNKAN : stocks \, Lnw\ S. M. Country : Loiida, Woodrowl Kanaka: Woodrow, 

 76! — DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



14. CAREX, Linn. 



Pereni]ial, glabrous (rarely pubescent) grassy sedges ; stems leafy, 

 chiefly at the base ; spikelets solitary or few, one terminal, the others 

 lower down (rarely all clustered in terminal or axillary panicles or 

 compound spikes), unisexual or androgynous, the lower spikelets female 

 with a few males at the base or top, verj' rarely dioecious, uppermost 

 often wholly male. Glumes many, imbricate all round the rhacliilla, 

 persistent or deciduous ; flowers solitary in the glumes. Male flowers 

 of 2-3 stamens ; anthers linear, obtuse. 1'emale flowehs a compressed 

 or triquetrous ovary enclosed in an urceolate usually 2-toothed utricle ; 

 ^tyle usually slender ; stigmas 2 or 3, protruding from the utricle. — 

 DiSTRiB. Species about 500. 



Spikelets short (f in. long or less), numerous, arranged in 

 compound panicles. 



Nuts 3-4 ; beak of utricle f the length of the body ; 

 style njuch shorter than the nut; female glumes 



ovate-lanceolate, shortly apiculate 1. C. condcnsaia. 



Nuts G-10 ; beak of utricle nearly as long as the body ; 

 style nearly as long as the nut ; female glumes 



elliptic, conspicuously aristate 2. C. mercarensis 



Sj)ikes 1 -li in. long, few (3 or fewer), very remote, slender, [var. major. 



racemosely arranged 3. C. speciosa, 



1. Carex condensata, Naes, in Wiyht, Contrib. (1834) p. 123. 

 Stem 2-3 ft. high, erect, rigid, slender, obtusely triquetrous above, 

 smooth, leafy. Leaves long, linear, acuminate, flat, with minutely 

 scabrous margins, ^-^ in. broad, the upper exceeding the inflorescence. 

 Panicle axillary, decompound, pale brown, concolorous, 6-8 in. long; 

 partial panicles I5-2I in. long, much-branched, the upper approximate, 

 the lower rather remote, pedunculate ; bracts foliaceous with long 

 sheaths ; bracteoles beneath the spikelets filiform. Spikelets sessile, 

 |-| in. long, with 3-4 nuts, reddish-brown, oblong, terete, with many 

 male flowers. Glumes reaching ^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 apicidate, membranous, pale bro\\n. Utricle rather more than ^ in. 



