710 CLXZII. CTPERACE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



27. C. fucata, Boott ms.; spikes dense blackish, styles 2 fid exsert 

 about ^ length of utricle, utricle nerveless, otherwise nearly as C. 

 notha. 



SIZKIM; Lachen, alt. 9-12,000 ft , J. I). H. 



Lowest bract far overtopping iufl. Spikes much more densely packed, and thicker 

 than in C. notha , glumes rather longer, black with a linear green mark on back. 

 Lowest spike 3-10 in. distant in some examples. 



28. C. rubro-brunnea, C. B. Clarke ; spikes 4-8 close together 

 nearly sessile, styles 2-fid persistent very long red-brown, utricle ellipsoid 

 plane-convex very slenderly 3-5-nerved or nerveless minutely glandular 

 narrowed suddenly into a short linear beak. C. heterolepis, Boott in Perry 

 Exped. Japan, ii. 327, not of Bunge. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 2-6000 ft., very common, C. B. Clarke. MUNEYPOOR, 

 Watt. DiSTBiB. China, Japan. 



Glabrous. Rhizome woody, short. Stems clustered, 1-2 ft. Leaves numerous, 

 often as long as culm, scarcely -i- in. broad. Spikes 2-3 by - in., brown-red, 

 often comose by long persistent styles; male spike paler ; lowest spike rarely 1 in. 

 distant; lowest bract much overtopping inflorescence. Fern, glumes ovate-triangular, 

 muticous or nearly so, rich brown with yellow keel. Utricle very nearly as of G. 

 fucata (or C. notha}, but exsert part of style-branches much longer than utricle. 



29. C. Prescottiana, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 286, & in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 135, & Carex, i. 45, t. 115 (excl. Hawaii plant] ; spikes, 3-6 

 lower peduncled 4-6 in. long slender, styles 2-fid, utricle small compressed 

 ovoid slightly nervose smooth eglandular beakless. C. producta, Boott in 

 Herb. Hook. C. teres ? partly, Boott Carex, i. 62, 1. 167 (lower utricle only}. 

 Carex, Wall. Cat. 3386. 



NEPAL, Wallich. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4500 ft. ; Myrungand Nunklow, J.D. H. 

 DISTBIB. Japan. 



Glabrous. Stems li-2 ft. Leaves nearly as long as stem, up to in. broad. 

 Lowest spike 1-5 in. distant, peduncle ^-2 in. ; lowest bract equalling iufl., not 

 sheathing ; terminal spike 2^ in. by ^ in., male, with a short second male spike often 

 added. Fern, spikes nodding, wavy, i in. broad, yellow brown in fruit. Fern, glumes 

 about as long as utricles with a short excurrent tip or obtuse. Utricle scarcely 

 -jL jn.j slightly inflated, irregularly 3-5-nerved on each face, with a very few scattered 

 sunk obscure glands, suddenly narrowed at top to a small entire mouth, hardly 

 microscopically a beak. Very near C. prcelonga, but the utricles are smaller, less 

 nerved, without linear beak ; and in all the specimens seen the terminal spike is 

 wholly male. In his " Carex " i. 62, t. 167 (and herbarium), Boott mixed this with 

 C. sandwicensis, Boeck. (C. Prescottiana, H. Mann) from the Sandwich Isles of 

 which the utricle differs materially. I think it probable that C. Prescottiana, Boott. 

 was C. Jieterolepis, Bunge, Enum. PI. Chin. Var. [1831] 69 (not of Boott); for 

 Bunge says his C. heterolepis resembled G. pendula, but had a bifid style. 



30. C. caespititia, Nees in Wight Contrib. 127 ; spikes 4-10 lowest 

 subsessile or erect on a short peduncle cylindric dense rigid, styles 2-fid, 

 utricle ovoid compressed irregularly few- nerved smooth eglandular sud- 

 denly narrowed into a minute entire beak. Kunth Enum. v. 2, p. 412 ; 

 Boott Carex, iv. 133, t. 428, fig. 3 : Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 437. Carex, 

 Wall. Cat. 3392. 



SYLHET, Wallich, 0. S. Clarice. 



Glabrous, 2 ft. high, habit of C. rigida, Gooden., but with a most irregular iufl. 

 Terminal male spike sometimes 4 in. usually 0-2 in. above the next, 2 in. long, 



