696 CLXXII. CTPERACE^!. (C. B. Clarke.) [Kubresia. 



cinnamon colour, style 3-fid. C. trinervia, Nees in Wight Gontrib. 120 (not 

 of Degland). C. Esenbeckii, Kunth Enum. ii. 522; Strachey Cat. PI. 

 Kumaon, 73; E. T. Atkins. Gaz. x. 618 (not of Boott). C. linearis, Boott 

 Careoc, i. 51 (partly). Hemicarex trinervis, G. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn, 

 toe. xx. 382 in small part (was chiefly G. linearis, Boott). 



WESTERN NEPAL; Eoyle n. 138. GFKWHAL j alt. 10,000 ft., Strachey ty 

 Winterbottom n. 19. 



Leaf -sheaths testaceous or somewhat chestnut-colour, lacerate. Summer leaves 

 12-16 by ^-J- in. flat. Male spikes -f-1 by -i in. Fern, spikes with occasionally a 

 few male spikelets at top. This does not greatly differ from K. HooTceri ; in which 

 the summer leaves are shorter, long-caudate. It hardly differs from Carex linearis, 

 Boottj but by the " utricle " being split f the way down to base. 



6. It. foliosa, C. B. Clarke ; dioecious, stems 20 in. somewhat robust, 

 summer leaves 20 by in. not caudate-setaceous, female spikes l in. 

 linear, male bracteoles elliptic-lanceolate acute yellow-brown keel green, 

 style 3-fid. 



GUUWHAL; alt. 11-13,000 ft., DutJiie (nn. 57, 4494). 



Rhizome oblique, stout, thick with lacerate leaf-sheaths. Closely allied to K. 

 trinervis, but larger. 



7. K. fissiglumis, C. B. Clarke j female stems 4-5 in, summer leaves 

 4-5 by -nj-i 1 i n no * caudate-setaceous, fern, spikes 1 in. linear black -purple, 

 fern, glume split down to base margins quite free, style 3-fid. 



WESTERN NEPAL ; alt. 12,500 ft., Duthie (n. 6092). 



Stems slender, not thickened at base ; leaf -sheaths tight, brown, not lacerate. 

 Fern, spikes lax, somewhat interrupted at base ; upper hracteoles elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse, black with green back. Pistil distinctly stalked. Specimens all female; a 

 male plant sent by Duthie under the same number appears not to belong to this 

 species (possibly K. foliosa). 



8. K. pyg-meea, C. B. Clarice ; stems i-l| in., leaves \-\l in. setaceous, 

 spikes - g- in. oblong, style 3-fid, beak of nut very short, hardly exsert 

 from glume. Hemicarex pygmaea, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 383. 

 Elyna sp. n. 7, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. et T. T. 



WESTERN TIBET; Ladak, alt. 12-15,000 ft., TJiomson. KUNAWUR; Jacque- 

 mont, n. 1783. SIKKIM ; Momay and Kangra Lama, 13-15,000 ft., J. D. H. ; Phari ; 

 G. King. 



Stems in dense tufts; leaf-sheaths testaceous, little torn. Leaves numerous, 

 channelled. Spikes unisexual. Bracteoles ovate-oblong, scarcely acute, fern, brown, 

 male paler. Fern, spikelets 4-6 in each spike. Fern, glume having margins united 

 toward base. Nut -fa in., oblong-ellipsoid, pale, apiculate, hardly beaked. 



Sect 2. ELYNA (Gen.) Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. 155. Stem with 1 appa- 

 rently simple linear or oblong spike. Fern, spikelets (at least several of 

 lower ones) with rhachilla (within fern, glume) bearing 1-4 male fl. Style 

 2-fid. [Glume (i.e. homologue of utricle in Carex) split down to base.] 



9. K.. filicina, C. B. Clarke ; slender, fern, spikes 1-H in. narrow 

 linear neither rigid nor dense, style 3-fid, nut small narrow oblong, beak 

 exsert often ultimately recurved. K. seticulmis, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 

 3 (partly). Hemicarex filicina, G. B. Clarke in Journ. I/inn. Soc. xx. 384. 

 Elyna sp. n. 1, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. T. 



N. W. HIMALAYA, alt. 10,000 ft. ; Simla, Thomson ; Kumaon, Duthie. 

 Stems 2-10 in. Leaves 4-6 by J^in., tip caudate. Spike very slender, T ^ in. 

 broad, green ultimately brown. Upper brxcteoles ^ in., elliptic -lanceolate, acute. 



