700 * CLXXII. CYPERACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) \Carex. 



Subgenns II. EUCABEX. Style 3-fid. 



Sect. 4. Kara. Stem with 1 spike, fern, at base (0. rara, &c.) sp. 34-39 

 Sect. 5. Indices. Terminal spike fern, at base, male at top ; 

 or, when spikes very numerous many male at top, ter- 

 minal spike sometimes wholly male. 



* Subscapose, basal leaves long (C. cyrtostachys, &c.) . . sp. 40-42 

 ** Spikes short, very numerous (C. cruciata, &c.) . . . sp. 43-66 



*** Spikes long-cylindric. Peduncles mostly solitary (C. 



Nyosurus, &c.) sp. 67-73 



**** Spikes long-cylindric. Peduncles often several from 

 each lower sheath. Terminal spike sometimes wholly 



male (C. polycephala, &c.) sp. 74-84 



***** Species not easily placed in any one of the 'preceding 4 

 subsections (C. curticeps, 0. speciosa, C. fragilis, 



&c.) sp. 85-91 



Sect. 6. Atrata}. Terminal spike male at base fern, at top (C. 



atrata, &c.) sp. 92-98 



Sect. 7. Proprice. Terminal spike wholly male (in the first- 

 group occasionally fern, at top). Spikes not very numerous, 

 occasionally up to 12. 



* Utricle glabrous, beak short sp. 99-105 



** Utricle glabrous, beak long (C.japonica, &c.) . . . . sp. 106-125 



*** Utricle hairy or minutely setulose (C. hirtella, &c.) . . sp. 126-142 



Subgenus I. VIGNEA (Genus) Beauv. in Lestib. Essai Gyp. 22. Styles 

 2-fid ; in C. stenopliylla rarely 3-fid. 



[N.B. In Subgen. Eucarex, in the Indian species, 2-fid styles occur in 2 or 3 

 species in the upper part of the spike, or in poorly-developed spikelets.] 



Sect. 1. MURICATJE. Terminal spike (and usually some or many of the others) 

 fern, at base male at top. [Spikelets in C. flumatilis all or mostly 1-sexual, 

 monoecious or dioecious.] 



* Spikes short, ovoid or oblong, sessile or nearly so; infl. a dense or interrupted 

 compound spike. [The series of species proceeds from the dense to the more 

 interrupted.] 



1. C. incurva. Light/. FL Scot. ii. 544, t. 24, fig. 1 ; rhizome descend- 

 ing, stems short, spikes ovoid androgynous male at top forming one ovoid 

 compound spike, glumes brown slightly scarions-edged, style 2-fid, utricle 

 ellipsoid-acuminate inflated thin plicate scarcely nerved, beak short 

 minutely scabrous on margins. Sclik. Riedgr. i. 27, t. Hh. fig. 95; Kunth 

 Enum. ii. 375 ; Seichb. Ic. FL Germ. viii. 4, t. 199, fig. 533 ; Boott Carex, 

 iv. 210 ; Boeck. in Lir<nsea, xxxix. 48. C. juncifolia, Allioni FL Pedem. ii. 

 264, t. 92, fig. 4 (not of Sclik.}. Yignea incurva, Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 

 56. 



N. W. HIMALAYA, from Kunawur and Kashmir to the Karakorum, alt. 11-15,500 

 ft., Thomson, &c. DISTRIB. Mountain and cold regions. 



Stems up to 6 in. (in India), often several clustered on top of ascending rhizome. 

 Leaves sometimes as long as stem, narrow, often (when dry) incurved sometimes 

 flat. Infl. about ^ in. diam. ; lowest bract j in. Glumes obtuse, margins shining, 

 yellowish, not broadly white scarious. Utricle rather longer than glume, larger than 

 nut, withering with folds on it ; beak shortly 2-fid, hyaline ultimately at top. Nut 

 f utricle, plano-convex, obtuse, shining-chestnut. Style | nut, branches long exsert. 



2. C. stenophylla, Wahlenb. in Kong. Vet. Akad.Handl. StocJch. [1803] 

 142 ; rhizome descending, stems ehort, spikes ovoid androgynous male at top 

 forming one ovoid or oblong compound spike, glumes strongly scarious- 



