708 OLXXII. CYPERACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



nerved smootli gradually passing into a conical entire beak. BoecJc. in 

 Linnsea, xl. 393. 



SIKKIM, alt. 8-9000 ft. j Sinchul, J". D. H. j Tonglo and Sundukphoo, C. B. 

 Clarice, &c. 



Glabrous, tufted, lower sheaths shining brown. Stems 3 ft. Leaves 18 by \ in. 

 Lowest spike |-4 in., distant; pt-duncle 2-4 in. long; bract overtopping infl., not 

 sheathing. Spikes 5 by % in., terete; terminal male at base, fein. in middle and 

 usually at top. Fern, glumes as long as the utricles, oblong-lanceolate, aristate, 

 broadly 3-nerved, green on the back, sides black-purple, bristle green scabrous. 

 Utricles % in., turgid, fuscous, 7-11-nerved on each face, whole surface minutely 

 yellow-glandular-punctate ; beak scarcely granular, hardly notched ; stigmas very 

 shortly exsert. Nut ovoid, somewhat narrowed upwards. This species, from the 

 root to the glumes, is extraordinarily like 0. prcelonga, but rather stouter ; the 

 fruiting spikes and utricles are totally unlike. 



21. C. sikkimensis, (7. B. Clarice ; tall, leaves long narrow, spikes 

 4-7 linear clavate, styles 2-fid, utricle ellipsoid compressed most slenderly 

 nerved brown smooth narrowed into a conico-linear entire beak. 



SIKKIM ; Jongri, alt. 12-13,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Lowest spike 2-3 i in. distant ; peduncle 2-3 in. long; lowest bract overtopping 

 the infl., not sheathing. Spikes 2 by in., terminal usually fern, at top clavate, 

 sometimes fern, only in the middle, sometimes wholly male. Fein, glumes as long as 

 utricles, oblong-lanceolate, not or scarcely mucronate, black-purple, back pale yellow. 

 Utricle T ^ in., stalked, not glandular ; beak oblong from a conical base, glandular- 

 scabrous ; stigmas exsert ^ the length of utricle. Nut ellipsoid, ^ the length of 

 whole utricle. Not closely allied to the preceding species; it has the utricle identi- 

 cally of C. notha from which it differs not only in the fern, top of the terminal spike, 

 but in its larger size and much larger spikes. 



22. C. cernua, Boott Carex, iv. 171, t. 578 ; leaves long, spikes 4-8 

 cylindric very dense, styles 2-fid, utricle broadly ovate much compressed 

 nerveless densely glandular subscabrous to base rich-brown, beak conical 

 entire. 



ASSAM; to Sudiya, Jenkins, /Simons, Ch'iffiih (Kew Distrib. 6099). DISTRIB. 

 Tonkin, Japan. 



Stems 12-18 in. Leaves as long as stem, up to i in. broad. Lowest spike 

 -2 in. distant ; peduncle |-2 in. long ; bract overtopping inn 1 ., not sheathing. 

 Spikes up to 2J by i in. ; terminal one male at base (sometimes fern, in middle male 

 at both ends). Fern, glutnes as long as utricle, 3-nerved, green on back, bristle 

 lanceolate excurrent rough. Utricle scarcely T ^ in., stalked; conical beak un- 

 distinguishable from utricle with no (or hardly any) linear termination. In C. 

 prcelonga the whole utricle is sprinkled with minute yellow translucent glands sunk 

 in the substance of utricle ; in C. cernua the glands are very thick, white, almost 

 depressed papillsu. C. cernua appears really nearer C. phacota than C. prcelonga, 

 but differs from both in the densely packed utricles. 



Sect. 3. Vulgares. Terminal spike male, the others fern, or male at 

 top, solitary. 



23. C. phacota, Spreng. Syst. in. 826: spikes 3-11 lower nodding on 

 slender peduncles linear-cylindric, fern, glumes with an excurrent green 

 scabrous tip, styles 2-fid short, utricle ovoid flat nearly nerveless glandular 

 to the base, beak short triangular with hardly any linear prolongation. 

 Nees in Wight Contrib. J26; Kuntli Enum. ii. 420; Drejer Syml>. Caric.ol. 

 15, t. 4 (excl. C. punctata & notha) ; Boott Carex, i, 63, t. 168 ; Thw. Enum. 

 356 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 434. 0. lenticularis, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. 



