714 CLXXII. CYPERACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



* Subscapose, basal leaves long, cauline leaves and bracts very short. 



40. C. cyrtostachys, Brongn. in Bot. Voy. Coquille 152, t. 25 ; infl. 

 compound, spikes linear-oblong lax pale, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid- 

 trigonous many-nerved minutely hairy, beak scarcely | utricle. Kunth 

 Enum. ii. 613; Moritzi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 98; Boott Garex, ii. 103, t. 310; 

 Boeck. in Linnxa, xl. 327. Carex, Wall Gat. 3383. 



PENANG; Wallich. PERAK; alt. 3500 ft. King's Collector, SINGAPORE, 

 Ridley. DISTRIB. Malaya, China. 



Glabrous, except utricle. Rhizome horizontal, thick. Leaves many, subradical, 

 12 ft. by - in., flat, tough, many-nerved. Scapes numerous, 4-9 in., with sheaths 

 and peduncles nearly throughout their length ; bracts | in., linear ; peduncles 

 exsert 0-1 in., 1-5-spiked. Spikes % by - in. Fern, glumes ovate, acute, scarcely 

 mucronate, shorter than utricle. Utricle in. ; beak scarcely notched. Style with 

 its 3 branches short, style-base linear. Nut "distorted by depressions," Boott, 

 gynophore small yellow, there are two main lateral excavated patches. (The only 

 Indian species that has a strongly excavated-distorted nut.) 



41. C. Kelferi, Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 365 ; basal leaves long up to 1 

 in. broad, scape with 4-6 distant peduncles each carrying one dense ovoid- 

 cylindric pale head, infl. minutely hairy, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid trique- 

 trous beak linear f utricle. 



TENASSERIM ; Eelfer (Kew Distrib. 6111, 2). 



Ehizome stout. Leaves 20 in., flat, sub 3-nerved. Scape 10-14 in. ; bracts 2-3 

 by in., sublanceolate ; peduncles exsert, 4-1 in., minutely hairy. Spikes -- in., 

 oblong or (fruiting) ovoid, 4-1-nutted, ferruginous. Fern, glumes ovatf, bristle 

 exceeding beak of utricle. Utricle ^ in. and upwards, pyramidal at both ends, 

 slenderly many-nerved, minutely hairy ; beak slender, mouth very small, base 

 minutely bulbous to hold slightly bulbous style-base. An unmistakable species. 



42. C. (?) pandanophylla, C. B. Clarke ; leaves long broad, spikes 

 in numerous fascicles on branches of scape female at base male at top, 

 glumes elliptic obtuse minutely scabrous-hairy long cuspidate. Scleria 

 pandanophylla, Kurz ms. 



PEGU; Yomah, Kurz. 



Very stout. Rhizome oblique, woody. Leaves subradical many, 1-2 ft. by 1-1 5 

 in., flat, striated, glabrous, as though petioled, petiole dilated at base. Scape 

 stout, 9 in., branches 2 -3 in., minutely hairy. Spikes - by ^ in.; bracteoles in. 

 setaceous. Glumes closely imbricated on all sides, chestuut-colrd. with narrow 

 white margin. Very young ; at Calcutta where the material is little more advanced, 

 the minute "flowers" in the lower axils of a spike appeared utricular ; but they 

 might represent the youngest stage of a Mapanioid inflorescence; the leaves are 

 altogether like those of Mapania. 



** Spikes short, very numerous (not scapose). 



43. C. iridica, Linn. Mant. 574; leaves subbasal very long, infl. elon- 

 gate, of distant peduncled pyramidal compound panicles, young spikes 

 i-f in. linear pale long-bracteoled, glumes aristate, style 3-fid, utricle sub- 

 globose trigonous many-striate glabrous suddenly contracted into an 

 oblong-linear beak. Boott Carex, ii. 87, tt. 250, 252-254 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, 

 xl. 347 (excl. Wallich n. 3420, not Kunth, or Nees.) C. Moritzii, Steud. in 

 Zoll. Verz. Ind. ArcMp. ii. 60; Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 350. C. longiaristata, 

 Boott ms. ; Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlv. (pars. 2), 160. C. 

 tissilis, Boott ms. 



EASTERN PENINSULA; from SIKKIM TERAi(Dulkajhar) C. B. Clarke, & CACHAR, 



