723 CLXXII. CYPERACE^}. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Carex. 



linear beak f utricle. Boott never named this, but left it in his G. fillclna packet. 

 Muui'o notes that it looks like C. Lindleyana. 



57. C. Wigrhtiana, Nees in Wight Contrib. 122; leaves subbasal 

 very long, iuii. elongate, lower panicles distant peduncled oblong often 

 simply spicate, spikes \ in. often 6-8-nutted pale suberect in fruit, 

 bracteoles inconspicuous, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid-trigonous many- 

 nerved greenish scabrous-hairy, beak linear f utricle. Kunth JEnum. ii. 

 512 ; Boott Carex, i. 11, t, 30 (excl. Khasia plant] ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 

 366. C. meiogyna. Nees I. c. 123 (all the Madras material, Wight, n. 1915, 

 &c.). C. indica, Nees ms. in Serb. Wight n. 1914, and in Wight Contrib. 

 123. Carex, Wall. Gat. 3400, C. (partly}. 



SOUTH MADRAS ; Courtallum, Wight. 



Glabrous, except panicle-branches and utricles. Rhizome stout, horizontal. 

 Stems 2-2| ft. Leaves often as long as stem, - iu. broad. Infl. often 12 by 3 in. ; 

 lovver panicles in fruit 2 by ^ in. Young spikes linear, green, somewhat ferruginous. 

 Fern, glumes ovate, acute, pale, often shortly aristate. Utricles ^ i in., nerves 20 or 

 more ; beak nearly straight, mouth slender 2-fid. A very homogeneous series of 

 specimens, apparently all from one neighbourhood, though Nees described it under 

 three names. 



58. C. ecostata, 0. B. Clarke; leaves narrow, infl. elongate dark 

 brown, lowest panicle distant slenderly peduncled narrow oblong (nearly 

 reduced to a spike), fem. glumes ovate-triangular nob mucronate, style 

 3-ftfl, utricle ellipsoid trigonous nearly nerveless glabrous, beak slightly 

 obKque f utricle. 



EAST ASSAM; Jakpho Summit, alt. 9900 ft., C. B, Clarke. 



Closely resembles in general appearance and infl. the Indian C. Wightiana, but 

 the utricles are almost nerveless; they usually have one face quite nerveless, the 

 other faces with 1 or 2 irregularly-placed thin nerves on each. 



59. C, repanda, C. B. Clarke ; panicles very distant small pyramidal, 

 s pikelets i- in. 4-iiutted pale divaricate in fruit, bracteoles long con- 

 spicuous, utricle narrow-ellipsoid many-nerved pale glabrous, beak linear 

 curved ^ | utricle (otherwise as C. Wightianz). C. Wightiana, Boott 

 Carex, i. 11 (var. perigyniis glabris, Boott, ms. i.e. the ELhasian plant). 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 3000-5500 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



60. C. perakensis, C. B. Clarke; leaves subbasal long narrow, infl. 

 elongate, partial panicles linear-oblong erect, spikes oblong 1-4-nutted 

 white, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid trigonous many-nerved hairy, beak 

 straight linear about f utricle. 



PERAK; Wray. 



Glabrous (panicle branches minutely scabrous scarcely hairy). Rhizome stout, 

 woody. Stem 2 ft. Leaves rather longer than stem, i in. broad, tough, sub-3- 

 nerved. Infl. 8 by 1 in- ; lowest peduncle 3 in. distant ; bracts far overtopping 

 inflorescence. Partial panicles with erect connivent branches in fruit, the dark-red 

 styles prominent over the white glumes and white-green utricles. Fem. glumes 

 as long as utricle, exclusive of short bristle. Utricle (with beak) nearly i in., beak 

 shortly bitid. 



61. C. sanguinea, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 285, & Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 137, & Cct-rea-, ix. 157, t. 515; leaves shorter than ^inrl. 

 narrow, infl. elongate, partial panicles oblong with irregularly capitate 

 dark-red spikes, style 3-fid, iitricle narrow ellipsoid trigonous narrowed at 



