Carex.l CLXXII. CYPERACEJS. (C. B. Clarke.) 721 



both ends minutely scabrous hairy, beak scarcely | utricle. Boeclc. in 

 Linncea, xl. 374; Boiss. Fl. Orient v. 406. 



W. HIMALAYA j alt. 3000-6000 ft. ; Kunaor, Boyle ; Hazara, Stewart j Murree > 

 Fleming, Trotter. 



Glabrous (panicle branches minutely scabrous, hardly hairy). Rhizome woody, 

 branched, with several approximate stems. Stems including infl. 8-18 in. Leaves 

 numerous, scarcely in. broad. Infl. often occupying f the plant ; lower peduncles 

 exsert; bracts finely caudate, shorter or longer than inflorescence. Spikes - in., 

 4-8-nutted, comose from the long red style-branches. Fern, glumes ovate-triangular, 

 not aristate, much shorter than utricle. Utricle T V~r2 in., narrowed at both end*, 

 red-marked, obscurely nerved. Nut stipitate, narrowed into the linear persistent 

 style-base. The exsert part of style-branches is longer than utricle, and longer than 

 as shown in Boott's picture. This species does not seem very closely allied to the S. 

 Indian C. Lindleyana, &c. ; it should perhaps stand next C. vesiculosa, Boott. 



62. C. rhizomatosa, Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. (1854), 60 

 and Syn. Cyp. 206 ; leaves shorter than infl. narrow, infl. linear, peduncles 

 distant slender nearly simple, spikes ovoid 1-4-nutted brown in irregular 

 heads, style 3-fid, utricle broadly ellipsoid trigonous scabrous hairy, beak 

 scarcely \ utricle 2 -fid. Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 34S. C. Cnminjiana, 

 Steud. Syn. Cyp. 206 ; Boott Gar ex, iii. 107, tt. 324, 325 ; Boeck. in Linn&a,, 

 xl. 367; Vidal PI. Vase. Filip. 286. C. capitulata, Boott ms. 



ASSAM; Gowhatty, Boott. KHASIA HILLS ; N. face, alt. 2-3000 ft., frequent, 

 C. B. Clarke. MUNEYPOOR ; Watt. PATKOYE MTS. ; rz$i^. DISTRIB. Tonkin, 

 Java, Philippines. 



Glabrous (except utricles). Rhizome very tough, covered with black fibres of 

 torn sheaths (it grows where the grass is burnt annually). Sterns tufted, 6-18 in. 

 Leaves usually 3^*6 in. by ^ in., not caudate. Infl. 6-10 by scarcely in. ; upper 

 bracts about as long as infl. Heads of spikes 1-^ in. diam., usually only one on 

 each peduncle, but peduncles often 2 from one sheath. Fern, glume ovate-lanceolate, 

 brown, often mucronate ; male glumes inucronate. Utricle fuscous brown, obscurely 

 8-15-nerred. 



63. C. liindleyana, Nees in Wight Contrib. 121; leaves gubbasal 

 long narrow, infl. elongate lower peduncles distant, partial panicles con- 

 densed oblong brown-green, style 3-fid, utricles oblong-ellipsoid many- 

 nerved glabrous, beak linear straight deeply bifid utricle. Kunth Enum. 

 ii. 512 ; Boeck. in Linnaa, xl. 362. C. thyrsiflora, Boott Carex, i. 12, t. 34. 

 C. cruciata, Thw. Enum. 355 (partly}. 



NILGHIRI HILLS; alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight, frequent. CEYLON; alt. 5-8000 ft., 

 Thw. (C.P. 3161, &c.) 



Stems 1-2^ ft Leaves % in. broad, not overtopping infl., not caudate. Fern, 

 glumes ovate, sometimes shortly -mucronate, many-nerved. Utricles not mu<-h 

 differing from those of C. cruciata, Wahl., with which Thwaites united it. Partial 

 panicles 1^ by \ in., dense, unlike the pale pyramidal partial panicles of C. cruciata. 



64. C. leucantha, Arnott ex Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 257, and 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 135, and Oarex, i. 10, t. 28 ; leaves very long- 

 narrow, infl. elongate depauperated, peduncles few distant very" short 

 carrying 1 or 2 small whitish heads, style 3-fid,. utricles broad-ellipsoid 

 trigonous many-nerved hairy not inflated, beak linear utricle. Thtv. 

 Enum. 355 ; Boeclc. in Linncea, xl. 369. 



SOUTH DECCIN ; Courtallum, Wight. CEYLON ; not rare up to 2000 ft. 

 Thwaites (C.P. 2631, &c.). 



Stems 1-2 ft., rather slender. Leaves overtopping infl., in. broad. Lower 



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