698 CLXXTI. CYPERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Kol resia 



Sect. 3. EUKOBRESIA. Spike on each stem 1, linear oblong or ov t ate, 

 compound subpaniculate, dense or interrupted at base (but smaller simple 

 spikes occur in most species occasionally). Lower spikelets bisexual except 

 in C. uncinoides. Style 3-fid. Trilepis, Nees in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. 

 xvii. 267 (as to type species). 



14. K.. Xtoyleana? Boeck. in Linncea, xxxix. 8 ; stems somewhat stout. 

 leaves linear flat when dried, spikelets medium-sized purple-green or 

 ferruginous-brown, style 3-fid, nut ellipsoid attenuated into beak. K. 

 stenocarpa, G. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 380. K. scboenoides, 

 Renders. Yarkand, 339 (not of Boeck.^. Trilepis Koyleaua, Nees in Edinb. 

 N. Phil. Journ. xvii. 267 and in Wight Contrib. 119; Kunth Ennm. ii. 

 535 ; Strachey Cat. PI. Kumaon, 73. Elyna stenocarpa, Karel Sf Kiril. in 

 Bull. Soc. Imp. Hose. xv. (1842), 526. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 10-16,000 ft. ; from W. TIBET, Thomson, to SIKKIM, 

 J. D. H., frequent. DISTRIB. North Cabul, Central Asia. 



Stem in Royle's specimens scarcely 4 in., in Thomson's 2 ft. Leaves sometimes 



as long as stem, often very much shorter, very variable in width (^"i ' m -)- Spikes 

 (in Royle's) f by in. ; in Thomson's up to 2 in., panicled, branches suberert 

 with many spikelets, ferruginous brown. Lower spikelets i in., often 3-4 fid. Nut 

 ^2 in. The large series of dried examples appears to uniie Royle's (the type) with 

 the fine collections of Thomson. Closely allied to the English K. caricina, Willd., 

 but has, in general, much larger brighter spikes. 



; 15. K. uncinoides, C. B. Clarke ; robust, infl. oblong dense compound 

 (a second panicle on remote long peduncle occasionally added), spikes 

 in large part 1-sexual, lower spikelets fern. 1-nutted ; f'em. glume long 

 utriculate deeply split down, style 3-fid, nut oblong fine brown, style-base 

 linear. Carex uncinoides, Boott Carex, i. 8, t. 23 ; Boeck. in Linnxa, xxxix. 

 109. Triticoides, Griff. Itin. Notes, 140. 



SIKKIMJ alt. 10-16,000 ft., J.D.H., &c. BHOTAN ; Griffith. DISTBIB. 

 Tibet. 



Glabrous. Rhizome 3 in. by A in. diam., woody, densely scarred. Stems 1-2 ft., 

 striate. Leaves sub-basal, very much shorter than stem. Infl. 3 by f in., straw- 

 yellow, somewhat interrupted at base. Glume to fern, spikelet f in. by ^ in., 

 brown, delicately striate, microscopically pubero-ciliate, mouth whitened shallowly 

 lacerate on one side split down below the top of nut sometimes even in young state 

 nearly to base of nut. Rudiment of the spicula exsert out of mouth of utricular 

 glume. Boott shows the utricle nearly complete; the margins of the slit fold over 

 as in several other Kobresia, and escaped his artist's microscopic power. It is a 

 typical Kobresia very like Royleana (except the linear style-base) ; it hardly differs 

 from Elyna kokanica, Kegel (Descr. PI. fasc. 8. 23) except in its larger size. 



Sect 4. HEMICAREX (Genus), Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 1072 (partly}. 

 Spikes loosely panicled ; lowest bract long, leaf-like. Style 3-fid. 



16. XL. laxa, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 6 ; stems 8-24 in. rather slender, 

 spikes 1- or 2-sexual (lowest spikelet fern.), style 3-fid, nut narrow oblong 

 apiculate scarcely beaked. K. pseudo-laxa, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 

 , Soc. xx. 381. Cobresia laxa, Nees in Wight Contrib. 119. Elyna? laxa, 

 Kunth Enum. ii. 534. Hemicarex laxa, Benth. Gen. PI. iii. 1072 ; C. B. 

 Clarke I. c. 385, t. 30. Carex impunctata, Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. (1876), 343 

 (the Himal. plant). 



ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. GoOC-12,000 ft. ; from N.W. KASHMIR, Giles, to 

 SIKKIM, J. D. H. 



