716 CLXXII. CYPFEACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Care,':. 



fibres. Infl. 12-20 in. ; lower peduncles often 2-3 in. exsert, bracts usually as long 

 as infl., leaf-like. Spikes in fruit divaricate on the stiff divaricate panicle-bnrochea. 

 Glumes (from middle female flowers) much shorter than utricle, ovate, minutely 

 or not mucronate, 3-1-nerved on back, ferruginous, lineolately marked. Utricle 

 jL in., ferruginous or brown, prominent in fruiting panicle, scarcely inflated, rarely 

 glandular-dotted, quite smooth or minutely scabrous towards neck ; ribs about 12, 

 thick; beak usually sparsely scabrous, with elliptic mouth on one side. Nut fitting 

 pretty closely utricle, ellipsoid, substipitate, pyramidal at top ; style-base scarcely 

 dilated. 



Var. |8 nagporensis ; secondary panicles with suberect branches scarcely 

 p>ramidal sometimes very slender, ripe utricle scarcely inflated fuscous-green often 

 with black or red dots in upper half, beak subcouic at base ^ f utricle. Chota Nag- 

 pore ; alt. 2-4000 ft., common from the Kolhan to the summit of PAKASNATH. A 

 great variety of forms is here included, all undoubtedly one species and no one 

 matching C. cruciata, Wahl. typ. One form is large, with the secondary panicles 

 long-peduncled large dense branches in fruit very stout rigid erect ; another has very 

 narrow leaves, panicles slender the lower with only 5-8 spikes. There is every 

 gradation between. The utricles are sometimes nearly glabrous, sometimes intensely 

 scabrous with large linear-conic points. 



Var. 7 argocarpus ; secondary panicles pyramidal often very dense, ripe utricle 

 glistening white inflated conspicuous. C. bengalensis, Boott Carex, ii. 85 (e-hiejly) 

 tt. 240-242 ; Boeck. in Linrura, xl. 346 (partly}. C. vacua and C. condensata, Buott 

 ms. (partly.) Abundant in INDIA, from the E. Nepal, J. D. H., to Khasia and 

 Assam, Tonkin. A plant collected by Boott on the Brahmapootra bank, having 

 fuscous-green utricles much less conspicuously ribbed, is supposed a plains form 

 of var. argocarpus. Most of the glistening- white fruits are fuscous in the 

 herbarium. 



46. C. parvigluma, C. B. Clarke-, leaves very long, stem short, 

 infl. usually of one pyramidal compound panicle, spikes as of C. cruciata, 

 style 3-fid, utricle globose trigonous many-striate glabrous suddenly 

 narrowed into a linear beak f utricle. 



ASSAM; Luckimpore, alt. 1500 ft., C. B. Clarice. 



Glabrous, except panicle-branches. Rhizome horizontal, woody. Leaves 2-3 

 ft. by ^ in. Stem including infl. 5-8 in. Infl. 3 by 1^ in., resembling much a 

 single peduncled panicle of C. cruciata ; in one example a small nearly-basal panicle 

 is added. Fern, glumes exceedingly small, elliptic, aristate. Utricle not inflated, 

 rather larger, and nerves 15-18, slenderer than in C. cruciata, to which it is nearly 

 allied, but dili'ers by the short stem, and very small glumes. 



47. C. condensata, Nees in Wight Contrib. 123 (Royle, n. 83 only, not 

 of Ji.ir,iitt}; leaves very long, infl. elongate of distant peduncled oblong 

 panicles, spikes ^-f in. clustered ferruginous 3-6-nutted, style 3-fid, utricle 

 narrow-ellipsoid trigonous irregularly ribbed not inflated, beak \ length 

 of utricle 2-fid. Boott Carex, ii. 86, tt. 247, 248 ; Duthie in E. T. Atkinson 

 Gaz. x. 616. C. bengalensis, Boeck. in Linnsea xl. 347 (chiefly).' C. 

 indica, var. condensata, Sirachey Cat. PI. Kumaon, 73. C. indica, J$e&s in 

 Wight Contrib. p. 123 (Royle n. 85). Carex, Wall. Cat. 3400 A. 



SINT>; Pinwill. HIMALAYA, alt. 1-10,000 ft., common; from Dalhousie to 

 Bhotan. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4 5000 ft., abundant. 



Separated from C. cruciata by the less pyramidal partial panicles, and the 

 utricle, which is smaller with linear-oblong shorter beak, less nerved (often nearly 

 nerveless on the plane face), frequently black- or red-dotted in the upper half. The 

 utricle is more or less scabrous-pilose, but sometimes glabrate. The panicle (when 

 dry) is always between cinuamoineous and brown. 



