Carex."] CLXXII. CYPERACEJJ. (C. B. Clarke.) 705 



Carfo. 23, fc. 9; Kunth Enum. ii. 391. Carex, Wall. Cat. 3388 (largely}. Nepal, 

 Wallich. Kept up as a species by Drejer and Nees, working with one or two pieces 

 only. A good series of material shows a transition from the perfectly glabrous 

 utricle (through forms with one or two marginal uerves scabrous) to the very sca- 

 brous utricle ; and both Boeckeler and Boott unite the two. 



Var. 7 dissitiflora ; stouter with broader leaves and longer utricles, lowest peduncle 

 usually very shortly exsert, spikes elongate very slender the lower utricles solitary, 

 distant. Nilghiri, alt. 6-7000 ft., Wight, C. B. Clarke. Anamallays, Beddome. 

 Khtisia, alt. 5-6000 ft., C. B. Clarke. Perhaps a distinct sp., according to Drejer 

 Si/m'b. Caric. 24. Lowest peduncle often carrying 2 or 3 spikes. The Nilghiri 

 plant appears a distinct species ; but the Khasia series shows a complete transition 

 from var. 7 dissitiflora to typical C. longipes. 



12. C. brunnea, Thunb. Fl. Japon. 38 ; infl.long lax, lowest peduncle 

 often several-spiked often 2 or more from one sheath, fern, glumes acute or 

 scarcely mucronate, style 2-fid, ripe utricle brown, ellipsoid much flattened 

 pilose (in Indian examples) striate, beak linear, exsert portion of stigmas 

 about as long as utricle. Schk. Reidgr. ii. 16, t. Xx. fig. Ill ; Kunth Enum. 

 ii. 392 ; Soeck. in Linn&a, xxxix. 145. C. gracilis, Br. Prodr. 242 ; Boott 

 Carex, i. 59, tt. 154, 155, 156 [excl. syn. C. lachnosperma, Wall.'] ; Thw. 

 flnum. 355. C. flexilis, Don Prodr. 42, riot of Budge. C. lenta, Don in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 327 ; Kunth 1. c. 418. C. nepalensis, 0. B. Clarke 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 82, not of Spreng. 



N.W. HIMALAYA, alt. 4500-6000 ft., frequent. MUNEYPOOR, alt. 3750 ft., C. B. 

 Clarke. ASSAM, Griffith. SIND, Pinwill. PULNEY and NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 

 6-7000 ft., Wight, &c. CEYLON, alt. 5000 ft., Thwaites. DISTKIB. The Mascarene 

 Isles, Australia, Japan, Sandwich Islds. 



Rhizome oblique. Stems 1-3 ft., slender. Leaves f stem, * in. broad. Oauline 

 sheaths somewhat distant, lowest usually above middle of plant. Peduncles often 

 several from each sheath, lowest exsert 1-8 in., slender, nodding, sometimes bearing 

 3-10 spikes. Spikes l|-2 in., slender. Male glumes obtusely triangular, reddish- 

 brown. Pern, glumes ovate, apex triangular, ultimately ferruginous-brown. Utricle 

 rather small, not parallel-sided, 9-15-nerved on each face, minutely hairy on nerves, 

 suddenly narrowed into a beak about utricle; beak shortly bifid, lobes erect. Nut 

 much flattened, ovoid, suddenly narrowed at top, yellow-brownj nearly filling utricle 

 except beak. Style about as long as beak, slightly swollen, contracted at base; 

 branches long very brown, but much shorter than in the two following species. 

 Limits and geographic range uncertain. In many of the non-Indian examples the 

 utricles are glabrous, or there are several peduncles even from the middle sheaths -af 

 the inflorescence. 



13. C. teinog-yna, Boott Carex, i. 60, t. 158 ; infl. long lax, peduncles 

 often 2 or more from one sheath, bearing 1 or few spikes, fern, glumes 

 acute often mucronate, ripe utricle brown oblong much flattened striate, 

 beak linear long deeply bifid, style 2-fid branches longer than utricle. 

 Boec/c. in Linnsea, xxxix. 145. 



KHASIA and JAINTEA HILLS, alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Resembling C. brunnea, Thunb., but a slenderer plant with narrower leaves. 

 Utricle remarkably parallel-sided, suddenly narrowed into a linear beak nearly as 

 long as itself, many-nerved on both faces, often minutely scabrous pilose on all the 

 nerves, the minute hairs sometimes only on the margins or near the top very rarely 

 wanting; lobes of beak erect. Nut oblong, filling utricle. Branches of style 2, 

 very long, brown red, persistent on ripe fruit. 



14. C. long-icruris, Nees in Wight Contrib. 124; infl. long lax, 

 peduncles often 2 or more from one sheath bearing 1 or, few-spikes, fern. 



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