Carex."] CLXXTI. CYPERACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 709 



xiv. 331, & Prodr. 43 (not of Mich.}. C. platycarpa, Hochst. Steud. Syn. 

 Gyp. p. 214. Carex, Wall. Gat. 3394 (type sheet), 3395 A, partly. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft., from Gurwhal to Bhotan, frequent. KHASIA HILLS, 

 alt. 2-6000 ft., and PATKOY MTS., Griffith. ASSAM ; Luckimpore at 300 ft. 

 TENASSEEIM, alt. 3500 ft. PACHMARI, PULNEYS, NILGHIRIS, and CEYLON, alt. 

 4-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Malaya, Japan. 



Glabrous. Rhizome woody, short. Stems closely tufted, l-2 ft., triquetrous. 

 Leaves often as long as stem, \ in. wide. Irtfl. usually 4-6 in., lowest spike 1-2 iu. 

 distant; lowest bract usually far overtopping the infl., but sometimes shorter than 

 it, not sheathing. Fern, spikes 1-2 in. (sometimes longer) by *- in., in fruit appear- 

 ing purple with green linear marks (glumes); male spike 1-2 in., rather slender lax, 

 pale ferruginous. Fern, glumes narrow, rather longer than utricle, green 3-nerved 

 on back, sides pale ferruginous or scarious. Utricle about $ in., usually dark 

 purple with a green margin, densely granular with red-purple glands throughout; 

 mouth of beak entire. The largeqoantity of this common species now to hand 

 leaves hardly any absolute characters to distinguish it from the two following. In 

 some, the bracts are slender, shorter than the iufl. ; in others, the beak of the utricle 

 has a distinct linear prolongation nearly as in the very close C. Arnottiana. The 

 colour of the plant glumes and spikes varies much from tbe type ; the Ceylon 

 examples have the soikes a rich brown (as in C. Arnottiana). The most general 

 characters for C. phacota appear to be the rough excurrent green tip of the fern, 

 glume with the utricle dense with glands to its base. 



24. C. pruinosa* Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 255; Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xx. 131, & Garex, i. 65, t. 174 ; spikes broader laxer than in G. phacota, 

 utricle larger i in. long, obscurely 3-5-nerved ; otherwise as G. phacota, 

 of which Boeckeler esteems it a form. 



EAST BENGAL, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6106). KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4200 ft., 

 C. B. Clarke. DISTEIB. Java. 



Boott (Carex, iv. 198, Ic. Ined. 667) has brought here his C. picta from Japan, 

 which has nerveless utricles. 



25. C. Arnottiana, Neea ms. ; Drejer Symb. Caricol. 16, t. 5 ; ex- 

 current tip of glume smooth, utricle glandular in its upper half, beak short 

 triangular with a minute linear prolongation, otherwise as C. pliacota. 

 'Boott Carex, iv. 178, Ic. Ined. 607 (not in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 129) ; Thtc. 

 Enum. 356 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 435. C. socia, Boott in Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. i. 254, & in Trans. Linn. Soc. I. c. 128. 



CEYLON ; elevated parts of Central Province, Walker, Thwaites. 



26. C. notha, Kunth Enum. ii. 421 ; spikes 3-7 lower on slender 

 peduncles linear-cylindric, fern, glumes obtuse or minutely mucronate, 

 styles 2- fid shorter than utricle, utricle ellipsoid plane-convex slenderly 

 3-5-nerved minutely glandular narrowed suddenly into a short linear 

 beak. Boott Garex, i. 8, t. 24 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 433. C. Victorialis, 

 Nees in Wight Gontrib. 126 (style erroneously 3-fid) ; Kunth JEnum. ii. 516. 

 C. punctata, Nees 1. c. 127 (not of Gaudiri). C. Benthamiana, Boott in 

 Boyle Himal. 412. C. phacota, Drejer tiymb. Caricol. 15 (partly}. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 5-11,000 ft., from Chiui, Jacquemont, and Gurwhal, Thomson, 

 to Bhotan, Griffith. 



Male spikes 2 in., brown. Lowest bract hardly so long as iufl. Glumes green, 

 obscurely 3-nerved on back, often quite muticous ; if a small mucro it is quite unlike 

 C. phacota, in which the whole green width of the glume is produced as an oblong- 

 linear flat tip. Utricle exceeding the glume about T ^ in., with round or linear, 

 yellow or brown, scattered sunk glands; beak slightly notched, minutely granular. 

 Otherwise as C. phacota. 



