7C2 CLXXII. CYPERACEJJ. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



4. C. vulpinaris, Nees in Wight Contrib. 121 ; nearly as C. divisa, 

 but utricle smaller elliptic-lanceolate membranous obscurely nerved. 

 Kuntlt Enuwi. ii. 383 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 63. C. curaica, var. # 

 Boott Carex, iv. 204 C. divisa, Boott 1. c. iv. 186 (partly}. C. Henning- 

 siana, Boeclc. Gyp. Nov. i. 42. 



KUNAWUR ; Royle n. 73. GTTRWHAL ; alt. 11,000 ft., Duthie (n. 55). LAHOTTL ; 



Schlagintweit (n. 2813). KASHMIE j Baramulla, Jacquemont (nn. 338, 362). 



DISTRIB. Cabal. 



Leaves % in. broad. Infl. dense. Glumes acute or almost acuminate, brown. 

 Utricle slender, very thin ; beak somewhat winded on scabrous margins. Stems 15 

 in. type form ; Jacquemont's are identical, with stems 5-9 in. ; one is marked by 

 Boott C. divisa, Hudson, the other C. stenophylla, Wahl. ? 



5. C. curaica ? Kunth Enum. ii. 375 ; rhizome long-creeping, culms 

 distant somewhat stout, spikes ovoid androgynous male at top forming 

 one ovoid compound spike, style 2- fid, utricle ellipsoid lanceolate nearly 

 nerveless, beak minutely or obsoletely scabrous on margins. Boott Carei-, 

 iv. 204 in small part. C. ovata, C. A. Meyer in Ledeb. J%. Alt. iv. 207 and 

 Ic. PI. Ross, iv. 10, t. 323. C. incurva, var. /3, Trev. in Ledeb. Ft. Ross. iv. 

 270 (excl. syn.). C. stenophylla, Benth. in Senders. Yarkand 338. 



KASHMIR; Barzil; alt. 10,500ft, C. B. Clarke. Lower Karakash, alt. 14,000 

 ft., Henderson n. 367. DISTRIB. Central Asia. 



Very like large states of C. stenophylla ; stems 8-10 in., stouter, leaves broader; 

 margins of glumes less shining scarious. Ripe utricle very convex, hardly inflated, 

 yellowish, nerveless on the plane face, very obscurely nerved on the convex face. 

 This plant is (as C. A. Meyer states) near C. fcetida, Allioni.' The C. curaica, of 

 Turczan., Maxim., and others is largely (or wholly) founded on C. pycnostachyi, 

 Karel. et Kiril. (in Bull. Soc. Mo?c. xv. 522) which is of similar appearance, and 

 with utricles of similar shape but strongly many-nerved, 



6. C. nubigrena, D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 326 and Prodr. 

 42; rhizome short or 0, leaves long narrow incurved when dry, spikes 

 ovoid androgynous male at top forming an ovoid oblong or interrupted 

 linear compound spike, style 2-fid, utricle ellipsoid narrowed into an 

 oblong-linear beak many -nerved on both faces. Nees in Wight Contrib. 

 120; Kunth Enum. ii. 385; Strachey Gat. PI. Kumaon, 73; Thw. Enum. 

 355 ; Boott Carex, i. 1, t. 2 ; Boeck. in Linn&a, xxxix. 90. C. fallax, Steud. 

 in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 60 and Gyp. 189 ; BoecJc. I. c. Carex, Wall. 

 Cat. 3396. 



HIMALAYA ; alt. 5-13,000 ft., abundant. KHASIA to MUNEYPOOR, alt. 4-6000 

 ft., abundant. SIND ; Pinwill. NILGIIIRI, Anamallays, and CEYLON j alt. 5-8000 

 ft., common. DISTRIB. Cabul, Malaya, China, Japan. 



Stems 6-30 in., caespitose on a tough perennial rhizome. Lower leaves long. 

 Infl, from i in., dense, ovoid, to 5 in. linear interrupted, greenish becoming brown ; 

 lowest bract usually much overtopping infl., sometimes not 4 in. Spikes i in., dense. 

 Fern, glumes ovate scarcely apiculate, shorter than utricle. Anthers linear-oblong, 

 very shortly apiculate. Style occasionally 3-fid, fide Boott. Utricle small, of thin 

 texture, plano-convex, green or pale brown, 9-11-nerved on plane face, 11-15 on 

 convex ; small red glands frequently scattered all over utricle between the nerves ; 

 beak not winged, commonly quite smooth, not rarely scabrid, sometimes almost 

 hispid. Nut hardly utricle, compressed, obtuse, brown, General aspect of C. 

 momrieaia, Linn. var. foliosa, but may be generally separated by the narrower in- 

 volute leaves. Well distinguished from all allied Indian species by the utricle many- 

 nerved on. both faces. C. leiorhyncha,G. A. Meyer Mem. Sav. Etrang. Petersb. i. 

 217, t. 9, a Central Asian plant, differs only by the leaves being rather broader, 



