Carex.'] CLXXII. CYPERACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 719 



53. C. leptocarpus, G.B. Clarke; leaves subbarsal very long, infl. 

 elongate, partial panicles distant long-peduncled pyramidal compound thin, 

 spikes -| in. distant 3-6-nutted, style 3-fid, utricle very distant ellipsoid 

 tapering -lanceolate much recurved strongly-nerved glabrous greenish, 

 beak linear conic f utricle. 



MUNEYPOOR ; Watt (n. (6728.) 



Glabrous (panicle branches minutely scabrous hairy). Stems 23 ft., stout. 

 Leaves as long as stem, ^~i in. broad, harsh, two lateral nerves conspicuous. Infl. 

 1-1 foot ; lowest peduncle exsert, 6 in. ; partial panicles 3 by 2f in. ; bracteoles in., 

 filiform. Young spikelets linear, pale-brown ; ripe spikelets rather wide -from the 

 strongly divaricate utricles. Fern, glumes elliptic-lanceolate, mostly bristle-pointed. 

 Utricles yV-yV i n apart, T V~T\> ' u< l n g> slender (not well ripe). From the remote 

 utricles this species does not resemble any of the other allies of 0. cruciata, Wahl. 



54. C- mercarensis, Hochst. ms. ; Steud. Syn.- Cyp. 194 ; partial 

 panicles oblong or scarcely pyramidal, fern, glumes aristate ferruginous 

 (otherwise as C.Jilicina). 0. cruciata, var. /3 Nees in Wight Contrib. 124. 

 C. amoena, Boott Carex, iii. 106, t. 321; Boeck. in Linn&a, xl. 354. C. 

 ramosa, Boott Carex, iii. 105, t. 322 (excl. Maurit. pi., not Schkulir). C. 

 Lindleyana, Herb. Ind. Or. IL. f. & T. (partly). C. glaucina, Boeck. in 

 Linncea, xl. 353 excl. Hohen. n. 629 (which Boeckeler never saw). 



NILGHIRI and PULNEY MTS. ; frequent, from COTJETALLUM, Wight, to Ooty, 

 alt. 8000ft., C. B. Clarice. 



A. nearly glabrous form, branches of panicle only minutely scabrous on angles. 

 Utricle nearly | in., ellipsoid-trigonous, 15-nerved, glabrous, pale, tapering into 

 oblique linear beak about as long as utricle. Hardly differs from the Madras G. 

 filicina growing with it, but by the pale ferruginous-green colour, the rather larger 

 utricles, and (especially) the definitely aristate female glumes. C. ramosa, Schkur, 

 a Mauritius plant, with which Boott combined it, has hairy utricles and distant 

 spikelets laxly panicled. 



Var. major, Steud. Syn. Cyp. p. 194 ; spikelets ^-f in. linear with 6-10 distant 

 scabrous-hairy utricles. C. ramosa, Schk. ? Boott ms. Canara, Hohenacker (n. 

 629) ; Anamallays, Beddome. This has been greatly confused, having, on account 

 of its number (Hohenacker, n. 629) been taken in Herb. Kewfor C '. glaucina, Boeck., 

 and " written up " accordingly. But Boeckeler's C. glaucina is founded on Wight, 

 n. 1293 = Boott, tab. 322, which is not exactly = Hohenacker n. 629 ; but here is 

 treated as a form of it. 



55. C. raphidocarpa, Nees in Wight Contrib. 122; leaves minutely 

 hairy, panicle-branches densely hispid (otherwise as C. mercarensis). 

 Kuntli Enum. ii. 512 ; Boott Carex, ii. 85, t. 244; Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 363 

 (raphiocarpa). 



PULNEY HILLS, Wight, n. 1911 (one collection). 



A rather stouter plant than G. mercarensis, with rather larger fruits, that might 

 be esteemed merely a larger hairy form of it. 



56. C. ceylanica, Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 341 ; glabrous (panicle- 

 branches minutely scabrous), leaves rather short not caudate, utricle 

 rather large shining brown (otherwise as C. filicina, Nees). C. cruciata 

 Thw. Enum. 355 (partly}. 



CEYLON ; alt. 6COO ft., Tkwaites (C.P, 820 partly). 



Leaves not exceeding 5 in., tip sword-shaped (very unlike all the G. filicina 

 group). Fern, glumes brown-red, ovate-lanceolate, not .aristate. Utricles ^ in. 

 ellipsoid-trigonous, 15-nerved, minutely hairy in upper part, tapering into an oblique 



