370 | CYPERACEZ. {| Carex. 
sometimes all the rest shortly male at the base otherwise female, 
_ the lower on short spinulose peduncles. Bracts foliaceous, much 
exceeding the inflorescence. Glumes obovate-oblong, truncate or 
emarginate, sides pale brown with small dark spots, keel broad 
3-nerved excurrent as a long hispid tip, 4 in. long including the tip. 
Utricle 4 in. long, flattened, obovate-acute in outline, minutely 
stipitate, yellowish or brownish with minute purple spots, apiculate 
by the very short entire beak. 
Kheri (Inayat 22,886). Distrrs.: Kashmir (Gammie!), Jaunsar 
(Rogers !), Assam eastwards to Japan with varieties in Australia 
and 8. Africa. 
2. C. myosurus, Nees, in Wight, Contrib, (1834), 122; F. B. I. 
vi, 723 ; Pflanzenr, IV, 20 p. 258. | 
Rhizome stout woody Stems 2-3 ft. high, obtusely triquetrous, smooth 
leafy, base covered with reddish-brown reticulately fibrous sheaths. 
Leaves 3-2 in. wide, flat, the upper as long as the inflorescence, 
coriaceous, scabrid. Panicle 8-12 in. long, lax, bracts foliaceous, 
rachis scabrid. Spikes 2-3 in. long, 4 in. broad, long-tailed by the 
upper male portion. Glumes } in. long, ovate-oblong, apiculate, 
-keel green slender, sides chestnut, membranous, margins narrow 
hyaline. Utricle 4 in. long, ellipsoid, narrowed at both ends, longi- 
tudinally nerved, somewhat hairy, beak hispid-scabrid, 2-fid, half 
as long as the utricle. 
Dehra Dun (Sohan Lal). Distris.: Himalaya 2-7,000 ft. from Kashmir 
to Bhotan, Khasia and Nilgiri Hills. 
3. C. Wallichiana, Presc. ex Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834), 129 ; 
F. B. I. vi, 747; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1131; Collett, Fl. Siml. 570 ; 
Pflanzenr. IV, 20, p. 749. 
Rhizome stoloniferous. Stems 12-30 in. high, sharply triquetrous 
smooth or scabrid upwards, basal sheaths purplish, somewhat reti- 
culately fibrous. Leaves y5-4 in. wide, flat, with rigid filiform tips 
exceeding the stems. Spikes 5-6, the upper 2-3 approximate, linear- 
cylindric, male 2-1} in. long, the rest female, distant, 3-1} in. long, 
dense. Bracts foliaceous exceeding the inflorescence. Glumes % in. 
long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, more or less aristate, pale brown, 
3-nerved. Ultricle } in. long, ovoid, greyish-brown, densely pubes- 
cent, abruptly tipped by the short deeply 2-fid beak. 
Saharanpur, Moradabad (Thomson), Kheri (Inayat), Bahraich (Inayat), 
Gorakhpur (Harsukh). Distris.: Afghanistan to Japan. 
