Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. HT 



4. C. CuRTisii, Ividl. Joiirn. Eoy. As. Soe. S. Br. Vol, 

 Eliizome sliort woody. Leaves subbasal crowded, 6 to 8 inches long ^ 

 incli across linear acuminate many nerved. Inflorescence much 

 shorter S-i inches long. Bracts much longer. Spikelets erect crowd- 

 ed with numerous utricles. Female glumes shorter broad, hardly 

 mucronate. Keel green, glabrous. Utricles ^ inch oblong with a 

 narrow base, abruptly passing into a short bifid beak, ribbed, trigonous. 

 Kut oblong trigonous fairly close fitting apex truncate, shining dark 

 brown. Style trifid. 



Penang: Government Hill (Curtis 1798) at 3500 feet alt. 

 Endemic. 



5. C. ARRiDENS, Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 726. Eobust glabrous 

 except the utricles, rhizome woody stout. Leaves longer than the stem 

 ■| inch broad numerous. Stem 18 inches long. Inflorescence elong- 

 ate, 12 inches long 2 inches wide. Peduncles 1-2 from each sheath, 

 distant exsert 2 inches long, erect stout. Spikes linear lanceolate 

 dark red |-^ inch long. Male glumes oblong ovate obtuse red brown 

 margins scarious. Female ovate acuminate scarcely mucronate. 

 Style trifid. Utricle ovoid trigonous nerveless hairy with golden hairy 

 suddenly narrowed into a beak, slender bifid with 2 large lips. Nut 

 ellipsoid trigonous pyramidal at both ends. 



Perak at 3000 feet elevation (Kunstler). Distrib. Pegu. 



6. C. IXDICA, L. Mant. 574. Ehizome short often covered with 

 the black bristles (remains of leaf-sheaths). Leaves subbasal, linear 

 long acuminate 18 inches long f- inch wide many nerved, edges 

 scabrid. Stem 18 inches to 2^ feet. Inflorescence 12-18 inches long 

 of distant pyramidal panicles crowded at the top, lower panicles on 

 slender peduncles as much as 6 inches long. Bracts long and leaflike. 

 Young spikes narrow distant. Fruiting spikes light brown. Glumes 

 ovate acuminate strongly nerved. Style trifid. Utricle subglobose 

 many nerved glabrous suddenly contracted into a long narrow beak. 

 Nut ellipsoid trigonous. Boott. Carex. No. 87. t. 250, 252-254. 

 Boeck. Linnaea. XL. 347 (part). Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 714 (not 

 Kunth. or Nees.). C. Moritzii, Steud. Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. 11. 

 60. Boeck. Linnaea. XL. 350. C. Jongianstata, Kurz. Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. XLV. (part 11.) 160. 



Johor: Eiver Bank Kota Tinggi (Eidley 4138), Kuala Sera- 

 brong (Kelsall 4099) ; Selangor: Bukit Kutu (Goodenough) ; Perak: 

 Trang (Kunstler 1383); Penang (King 1496). Distrib. India, 

 Cochin China, Java. Banks in woods. Native name " Sesayak." 



var. laetehrunnea, Clarke I.e. 715. Spikes | inch long, browner. 

 Male glumes scarcely artistate. Utricles obliquely erect divaricate. 

 Style base on right nut not swollen. C. hengahnsis, Thw. Enum. 



