706 CLXXII. CYPEBACEjE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



glumes lanceolate acute, style 2-fid, ripe utricle ferruginous much flattened 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate into beak glabrous except green margins, beak 

 slightly notched with the green scabrous margins incurved, exsert portion 

 of style-branches fully as long as utricle. Kunth Enum. ii. 417; Boott 

 Carex, i. 59, t. 157 ; Boeck. in Linnsea y xxxix. 148. C. longipes, Thw. 

 Enum. 355. 



W. HIMALAYA; from Kisbtwar, alt. 4000ft., C. 3. Clarke, to Nepal, Wallich. 

 NILGHIRIS, Perrottet, Wight, alt. 8000 ft., C. B. Clarke. CEYLON, Thwaites (C.P. 

 2749). 



Very similar to C. longipes, brunnea, and teinogyna, but distinct by the utricle. 

 Utricle long, triangular-acuminate, the strictly linear portion of beak short; plane 

 face 7 9-nerved, convex face 15-nerved bright ferruginous yellow with two sca- 

 brous green margins, margins in lower half of beak incurved over the plane face. 

 Fern, glumes shorter than utricle. Branches of style 2, nearly as long as in C. 

 teinogyna. 



Sect. 2. REMOTE. Terminal spike male at base fern, at top (or rarely fern, in 

 the middle male at both ends or accidentally wholly male), the other spikes male at 

 base or the lower often wholly fern. 



* Spikes short, sessile or nearly so, ovoid or oblong, dense. Glumes pale. 



15. C. remota. Linn. Sp. PI. 1383; infl. elongate, lower 

 distant, lowest bract long usually overtopping infl., style 2-branched, 

 utricle ellipsoid flattened narrowed into an oblong beak slenderly many- 

 nerved on both faces. SchTc. Riedgr. i. 46, & ii. 22, t. E, fig. 23; Nees in 

 Wight Contrib. 121 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 404 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 8, 

 t. 212, figs. 556, 557 ; Boott Carex, iv. 198, & Ic. Ined. 669, 670; Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxxix., p. 129. C. axillaris, Linn. Sp. PI. 1382. Vignea remota, 

 Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p. 58. 



N. TEMPEEATE HEMISPHERE. 



Glabrous. Rhizome short, slender, without stolons. Stems clustered, 1-2 3- ft., 

 slender. Leaves f stem, scarcely in. broad, weak. Infl. often half length of plant, 

 lower spikes solitary 1-3 in. apart; lowest bract 4-10 in., very narrow, weak. Spike 

 i-| in., ellipsoid, greenish. Glumes ovate, acute, keel green, sides pale. Anthers 

 linear, muticous. Utricle small, glabrous, scabrous on margin ; beak 2-fid, lobes 

 erect ; margins scabrous. Nut subovoid, flattened, f utricle excluding beak. 



Var. (3 Rochebruni (sp. ), Franch. et. Savrat. PI. Japon. ii. pp. 126, 555; utricles 

 nerveless on plane face, very slenderly 3 5-nerved on convex face, gradually narrowed 

 upwards into a narrow-triangular beak. Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir, alt. 

 7 8000ft., to Sikkim, alt. 7-12,000 ft., &c., and KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4500 ft 

 Beak of utricle is, in all Indian material, more or less winged, in this (as in the 

 nerveless plane face) showing an approximation to 17. C. alta. In general appearance, 

 it matches well typical European C. remota. 



16. C. canescens, Linn. Sp. PL 1383 ; infl. linear, spikes short cylin- 

 dric approximate, bracts short lowest much shorter than infl., style 2- 

 branched, utricle ovoid flattened narrowed into a short triangular beak 

 slenderly 8-10- nerved on both faces. Reic/ib. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 7, t. 206, 

 figs. 546, 547; Boott Carex, iv. 154, t. 496; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 122. 

 C. curta, Gooden. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. [1794] 145 ; Schk. Riedgr. i. 43, 

 & ii. 21, t. C, fig. 13 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 403. Vigna canescens, Reichb. Fl. 

 Germ. Excurs. 58. 



KASHMIR, alt. 6-12,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. DISTBIB. Cooler parts of globe. 



