704 CLXXII. CYPERACE^;. (C.B.Clarke.) [Carex. 



- many-nerved without glands acuminated into a short rough-edged beakr 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 93. 



UPPER BURMA; Wullaboom in Hookhoom, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6103). 

 DISTRIB. China, Japan. 



Rhizome woody. Stems 1-2 ft. Infl. 4-6 by -f in., dense, of 40-70 spikes ; 

 lowest bract scarcely 1 in. Spikes nearly % in., straw-colrd. Utricle (larger than 

 in Thomsoni) plane-convex ; nerves 8 on the plane, 12 on the convex face ; beak 

 minutely scabrous on edges. Very near C. Thomson?) but much less rigid ; the infl. 

 in fruit resembles that of Setaria italica. It is sometimes completely dioecious ; in 

 other cases the infl. has male spikes in the middle fern, at both ends (or at top only) 

 as occurs in C. disticha. 



10. C- teretiuscula, Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 163 (excl. tab. 

 cited) ; stems 2 ft. scabrous at top, leaves nearly as long as stems narrow, 

 Bpikes ovoid or ellipsoid androgynous male at top green variegated brown 

 forming a linear oblong interrupted compound spike, style 2-fid, utricle 

 small stalked slightly spongy ovoid conical-beaked gibbous few-nerved 

 on convex face, margins of beak serrate sub hyaline almost winged. Schlc. 

 Riedgr. i. 30, tt. D. 19, & T. 69 ; Kunfh Enum. ii. 390 ; BoecJc. in Linnsea, 

 xxxix. 104. C. teretiuscula, var. /3 major, Boott Carex, iv. 145, t. 466. 

 C. mitis, BoecJc. I. c. 104. 



KASHMIR, alt. 6-7000 ft., Thomson. BHOTAN, Griffith, n. 2663 (Kew Distrib. 

 n. 6104). DISTRIB. Cooler N. Hemisphere. 



Griffith's example shows no root, but is in ripe fruit; the utricle has a ridge on 

 the nerveless face and about 4 nerves on the middle of the turgid gibbous face, 

 exactly as in European C. teretiuscula. Thomson's Kashmir plant has numerous 

 stems closely placed on an intricately branched short weak rhizome ; the young 

 utricles are stalked and show the subalate margins of the beak. I put these two 

 plants together, for they must be very closely allied ; Mr. J. G. Baker says that 

 neither of them matches exactly C. teretiuscula. 



** Spikes linear-cylindric, peduncled, inflorescence loose. 



11. C. longipes, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 329, & Prodr. 43; 

 infl. long very lax, lowest peduncle solitary usually 1-spiked long, fern, 

 glumes mucronate some aristate, style 2-fid, utricles green or fully ripe 

 yellowish. Nees in Wight Gontrib. 124; Kunth Enum. ii. 418; Drejcr 

 "Bymb. Caric. 24, t. 10; Boott Carex, iv. 190, Ic. Ined. t. 644; BoecJc. in 

 Linmea, xl. 376 (not of Thwaites).Qa,rex, Wall. Cat. 3388. 



NEPAL, SIKKIM, and KHASIA, alt. 4-12,000 ft., common.' DISTRIB. China. 



Rhizome short, woody, divided. Stems 6-24 in., slender. Leaves f the stem, 

 i in. broad. Cauline sheaths distant, lowest often near base of stem. Lowest 

 peduncle usually exsert 28 in. (but see var. 7), almost filiform, nodding. Spikes 

 3-10 on each stem, 1-3 in., green or yellowish, usually solitary or lowest with 1 or 2 

 smaller near base. Male glumes obtuse with a minute rough excurrent mucro ; 

 anthers submuticous. Fern, glumes ovate, acuminate, mucro produced into a rough 

 bristle often overtopping utricle. Utricles much flattened, ovoid or ellipsoid, sud- 

 denly narrowed into a long beak, distinctly 7-9-nerved on each face, glabrous or 

 scabrous on margin sometimes also on two marginal nerves (see var. /3) ; beak 

 narrowly oblong, deeply bifid, lubes lanceolate erect, scabrous or rarely glabrous on 

 margins. Nut much flattened, f utricle (with bewk), ovoid, obtuse, dark brown; 

 style little thickened, ex&ert branches shorter than utricle. 



Var. /3 nepalensis, Boott Carex, iv. 190; utricles scabrous-pilose over both faces. 

 C. macrolepis, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 329, & Prodr. 42 (not of DC.). C. 

 nepalensis, Spreng. Syst. iii. 811; Nees in Wight Contrib. 125; Drejcr Symb. 



