722 OLXXII. CYPERACEjE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



peduncles often 6-8 in. distant, exsert 1-2 in. ; heads depauperated, ^ in. diam. of 

 1-6 spikes. Spikes | in., ovoid (in fruit), 4-8-nutted. Fein, glumes ovate, acumi- 

 nate, cuspidate (cusp not overtopping beak of utricle), nearly glabrous except at 

 top. Utricle (with beak) in., nerves 20 not strong ; beak rather deeply bifid, 

 very little conic-dilated at base. 



65. C. malaccensis, C. B. Clarke-, heads pyramidal rigid f in. 

 diam. white, female glumes minutely hairy, utricle strongly-nerved 

 glabrous subinflated narrowed into conico-linear flattened beak scabrous 

 on margins, otherwise as C. leucantJia. 



MALACCA; Langkawi, Ridley (n. 1669). 



Bracts under terminal head 4 by - in., leaf-like, horizontally spreading (in C. 

 leucantha, weak suberect very narrow). Beak of utricle curved inwards trigonous 

 compressed with two acute very scabrous margins (in C. leucantha nearly terete). 

 The long narrow leaves and few depauperated remote white heads are very like 

 C. leucantha. 



66. C. spicigrera, Nees in Wight Contrib. 121; leaves very long 

 narrow, infl. oblong panicled fuscons, lower peduncles 1-2 in. distant, 

 partial panicles oblong interrupted, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid trigonous 

 many-nerved hairy, beak oblong scarcely \ utricle. Kunth Enum. ii. 512 ; 

 Boott Carex, i. 10, t. 29 ; Thw. Enum. 355 ; BoecJc. in Linncea, xl. 368. 



CEYLON ; "Central Province up to 6000 ft.," Thwaites (C.P. n. 822), &c. 



Stems 1-1^ ft. Leaves overtopping infl., -i in. broad. Infl. 3 by 1 in. j 

 partial panicles i by 5 in., dense. Spikes in fruit ovoid, 4-nutted. Fern, glumes 

 ovate, often aristate, shorter (including bristle) than utricle. Utricle ^ in., brown- 

 red ; beak scarcely notched. 



Var. 8 minor, Thw. 1. c. 355 ; very slender, infl. 1 by in. E. Gardneri, Boott 

 ms. CEYLON (C.P. n. 824), Gardner. Stems 8-10 in., almost capillary. Leaves 

 scarcely ^ in. broad. Inflorescence reduced to a subsessile interrupted spike. 



Var. 7 rubella (sp.) Boott Carex, iv. 176, t. 599 ; infl. a single terminal pyra- 

 midal dense head f in. diam. Ceylon (C.P. 2629). 



Var. ? 8 rostrata, Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 369 ; utricles nearly twice as long 

 narrower evidently beaked nearly smooth, glumes muticous. [Cf. Thw. Enum. 

 355]. CEYLON ; Thw. (C.P. 2629). This appears from description scarcely a var. 

 of C. spicigera, but I have failed to find it among Thwaites C.P. 2629. 



*** Spikes long-cylindric. Peduncles mostly solitary, sometimes 2, in each 

 sheath (cf. C. arridens, n. 78.). [Terminal spike sometimes wholly male in C. 

 desponsa and C. prcestans.~] 



67. C. baccans, Nees in Wight Gontrib. 122; robust, leaves and 

 bracts long, panicle oblong or linear-oblong, fern, glumes striate nearly 

 throughout their width, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid-trigonous gibbous finally 

 berried, beak short ultimately minute. Kunth Enum. ii. 513 ; Thw. Enum. 

 355 ; Boott Carex, ii. 83, tt. 234-236 and 238, 239 ; Bueck. in Linncea, xl. 

 339 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 82. C. curvirostris, Kunze 

 Suppl. 79, t. 20 ; Miq. Fl, Ind. Bat. iii. 350. C. recurvirostris, Steud. in 

 Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 60, and Gyp. 207. C. dolicophylla, Link ms. 

 (fide Boeckeler). 



SIKKIM and KHASIA to the NAGA HILLS; alt. 2500-7000 ft. MALABAB GHATS 

 to CEYLON; alt. 3-6000 ft. DISTEIB. Java, Sumatra, China, Philippines. 



Glabrous. Rhizome very stout, short, horizontal, with approximate ftenis. 

 Stems often 3 ft. Leaves often overtopping inflorescence, } in. broad. Infl. 12-18 



