Carex.] CLXXII. CYPERACETE. (C. B. Cbrke.) 707 



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

 Leaves f stem^ i-i in. broad. Infl. 2-5 in., lower spikes solitary, 1 in. apart ; lowest 

 bract setaceous, about 1 in. lonsf. Spikes ^ a in., greenish. Utricle small, glabrous, 

 often nearly smooth on margin ; beak triangular, hardly notched, minutely glandular- 

 scabrous. 



17. C. alta, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 254, & in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xx. 130, & Carex, i. 59, t. 153 ; larger and stouter in all its parts than 

 C. remota. beak of utricle strongly winged, so that utricle is widest in its 

 upper half, nut small not filling utricle (otherwise as C. remota). Boeck. 

 in Linnxa, xxxix. 126. C. Brizopyrum, Kunze Suppl. 169, t. 43. 



KHA.SIA ; Molim, alt. 5800 ft., C. . Clarke. MUNEYPOOR, alt. 5-60CO ft., Watt. 

 DISTRIB. Java. 



Altogether resembles a large C. remota. Leaves and bracts up to - i in. broad. 

 Spikes often ^ in., cylindric. Utricle in outline elliptic with a short point, scabrous 

 almost serrulate on the green shoulders formed by the wings of the beak, with a 

 groove on the plane face below the termination of the slit of the beak. 



18. C. cooptanda, C. B. Clarke-, small, leaves linear, spikes 2 

 cylindric short dense close together, upper male at base pale brown, bracts 

 hardly any, style 2-branched, utricle ovoid flattened narrowed into a short 

 conical subentire beak nerveless smooth. 



KHASIA. HILLS ; Griffith. 



Glabrous. Rhizome slender, creeping, divided. Stems 6 in., slender. Leaves 

 4 by ^L jn. Spikes i in. apart, upper ^ by ^ in., lower rather smaller female. Glumes 

 as long as utricles, ovate, obtuse, brownish with scarious margin upwards. Utricle 

 ^ in. long, without glands ; exsert part of stigmas as long as utricles. There are 

 three excellent specimens, exactly like each other, and very unlike any other Indian 

 Carex, with the note of Boott on them in Herb. Hooker stating that they were 

 collected by Griffith in Assam. 



** Spikes long-cylindric or linear, lower peduncled. Glumes coloured. 



19. /. praelongra, C. J5. Clarke-, tall, leaves long, spikes 4-9 linear 

 nodding, styles 2-tid, utricle broadly ovoid compressed nerveless smooth 

 suddenly narrowed into a very short linear sube.itire beak. C. phacota, 

 /3 minor, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 141. 



SIKKIM, alt. 7-9000 ft., frequent, 0. B. ClarJce. 



Glabrous, tufted, lower sheaths shining, brown. Stems 2-3 ft. Leaves 18 by 

 \-\ in. Lowest spike ^-3 in. distant; peduncle ^-3 in. long; bract overtopping 

 infl., not sheathing. Spikes 4 by | in. terete; terminal male at base, fern, in 

 middle, fern, or male (sometimes branched) at top. F 'em. glumes as long as utricles, 

 3 -nerved, green on back, black-purple on side, emarginate or acuminate, excurrent 

 green tip often scabrous. Utricle % in., obovate turgid, yellow-brown, whole sur- 

 face minutely yellow-glandular-punctate ; beak exactly linear, granular-glandular, 

 becoming very white when quite ripe, shortly notched ; stigmas shortly exsert. 

 Nut obovoid, biconvex, very smooth, nearly filling utricle. 



Var. /3 angustior ; stpms 12-18 in. slender more scabrous, leaves scarcely | in. 

 broad, spikes 3-1 in. Khasia Hills, alt. 4-6000 ft., C. B. Clarke. Burma; Shan 

 States, alt. 5000 ft., Collett. Terminal spike occasionally wholly male. There are 

 still 16 Sikkim and 34 Khasi specimens of this species in my collection, which show 

 that Boott was right in attaching moderate importance to the sex of the terminal 

 spike. 



20. C. teres, Boott Carex, i. 62, t. 167 (excl. lower utricle) ; tall, leaves 

 long, spikes 4-9 linear nodding, styles 2-fid, utricle ellipsoid compressed 



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