724 CLXXTI. CYPERACEJ3. (C. B. Clarke ) [Car?.>: 



lowest peduncle exsert 5 in. Partial panicles 4 by H, appearing as if simple with 

 distant whorls of sessile spikes. Spike* If in., throughout the plant many mule, 

 many with only one basal fern. Utricle with many, not prominent, nerves. This 

 may be a sexual (nearly male) state of C. Myosurus, as Duthie regarded it. 



70. C. spiculata, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 288, and in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xx. 139 and Carex, i. 3, t. 7 ; leaves narrow, spikes denser with 

 obliquely ascending fruits, panicle more rigid (otherwise as C. Myosurus, 

 var. |3). 



SIKKIM; alt. 1-2000 ft., common. KHASIA KILLS, alt. 250-6000 ft., very 

 common. 



Utricle ellipsoid, trigonous ; lanceolate upwards ; beak as though short cylindric, 

 the strong margins of the utricle carried up the beak as winged margins. Boott 

 says separable from C. Myosurus by the glabrous utricles, but in Boott's own 

 material the utricle is more or less hairy just as in C. Myosurus. 



Var. nobilis (sp.) Boott Carex, \. 4, tt. 9, 10, 11; infl. large compound, ripe 

 utricle more spreading their short beaks somewhat recurved. C. pandata, Boott 

 mSf Jaintea Hills ; alt. 3500-5000 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. This local form is 

 very striking, and is named 0. nobilis by Boott in Herb. Hook. ; but the C. nobilis 

 Boott, tt. 9, 10, 11, appear large forms" of Q. spiculata, leading on to the Jaintea 

 plant. 



71. C. composita, Boott Carex,].. 3, t. 8; leaves long narrow, panicle 

 long narrow, spikes in fruit dense, fern, glumes brown-margined cuspidate 

 often overtopping beak of fruit, style 3-fid, utricle small obovoid pyra- 

 midal-compressed at top hairy nearly or quite nerveless beak very small. 

 BoecJc. in Linnsea, xl. 328 ; G. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 82. C. 

 Myosurus, Boott ms. (partly). 



From BHOTAN, Griffith, to MERGTJI, Griffith, KHASIA HILLS ; alt. 3-6000 ft., 

 J. D. H., &c., and east to NAGA HILLS. 



Glabrous, except utricles. Rhizome creeping ; stolons often 3-6 in. by ^ in. 

 diara. Stems 2 ft. Leaves usually (with bracts) overtopping stems, in. broad, 

 caudate-setaceous rough-tipped. Infl. 6-12 in., narrow, 6-15-spiked ; lowest 

 peduncle usually short 4-1-spiked, occasionally more distant long filiform. Spikes 

 usually 1-1-J- in., sometimes nearly 3 in., and much broader with very long fern, 

 glumes. Utricle short-stalked, green then stramineous. Primarily distinguishable 

 from C. Myosiirus and C. spiculata by the nerveless utricles. 



72. C- desponsa, Boott Carex, ii. 82, t. 228; leaves long narrow, 

 peduncles 3-7 very distant 1-spiked, terminal spike with fern, at base or 

 wholly male, fern, glume small ovate cuspidate, style 3-fid, utricle large 

 ellipsoid trigonous nerrose glabrous, beak linear utricle. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5 6000 ft., Moflong and Mairung Woods, J. D. H. 



Glabrous. Rhizome woody, horizontal. Stems 1220 in. Leaves numerous 

 overtopping stem, -\ in. broad ; lower spikes 3-6 in. apart, long-peduncled. Spikes 

 la by in., lax, ferruginous green. Utricle (including beak) in., ferruginous 

 or brown-red, beak sparsely scabrous with 2 small teeth. Boott likens this to C. 

 longipes, Don in general habit. It does not seem really allied to C. Myofturus, and 

 the terminal spike being not rarely wholly male, its true affinity is perhaps not with 

 the Sect. Indica. 



73. C. scitula, Boott Carex, iv. (1867), 177, t. 600 ; stems slender 

 tufted, leaves overtopping infl. linear, spikes 3-7 oblong cylindric dense 

 comose from brown-red stigmas, fern, glumes lanceolate acuminate, style 



