728 CLXXII. CYPEEACE^B. (C. B. Clarke.) [Cares. 



nearly capillary ; bracts not overtopping panicle. Spikes solitary (rarely a small 

 second added) by ^ in. ; two upper male (in one case with a disjunct fern, at base) 

 ferruginous, the others fern, often shortly male at top. Fern, glumes ovate, acute, 

 (lower often mucrouate), pale, shorter than utricle. Utricle small, less than T \ in., 

 yellow-green, obscurely nerved, setulose-scabrous at least in the upper half, granular 

 or subscabrous below ; beak shorter than utricle, setulose, scabrous, shortly notched ; 

 exsert style-branches much shorter than utricle. 2fut fitting the utricle, ellipsoid, 

 triquetrous, brown. Very like C. munda, Boott. 



***** Species of Sect. " INDIOE" not easily placed in anyone of the precediug 

 four subsections. 



85. C. curvata, Boott Carex, i. 2, t. 5 (non Knaf) ; small, leaves 

 filiform, infl. compound oblong yellow dense, spikes very small ovoid 4-6- 

 nutted with few males at top, utricle ellipsoid plano-convex 3-nerved, 

 glabrous, beak very short oblong bifid, style 3-fid. Boeck. in Linncea, 

 xxxix. 110. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Tungu, alt. 12-13,OfO ft., J. D. H. Pharee, Dungloo. 



Glabrous. Rhizome woody. Stems densely caespitose, 2-6 in., sometimes curved. 

 Leaves overtopping the short steins, often curved, edges inrolled. Infl. l by A in., 

 lowest bract often overtopping it. Lowest partial panicle subsessile (peduncle in- 

 cluded in the short sheath), nearly in. with 2-6 spikes. Spikes % in., nearly 

 entirely fern. Fern, glumes ovate, acute, scarcely mucronate, yellow, back green, 

 about as long as utricle. Utricle ^ in., sessile, almost concavo-convex, yellow with 

 3 gran longitudinal bands; beak bifid, nerves of utricle running up into its teeth. 

 Rudiment of the spicula usually present, as long as utricle, flat, green, 3-striate, 

 applied to the posticous face of nut, often (as observed by Boott) splitting the utricle 

 down. Boott was unable to indicate the affinities of this species ; Boeckeler has 

 placed it in the middle of Vignea ; it has several points in common with Kobresia. 



86. C. inclinis, Boott ms. ; stems 4-9 in. slender 4-6-spiked, leaves 

 much overtopping infl. narrow, spikes solitary nearly all male at top 

 Terminal usually fern, at base, style 3-fid, utricle narrow-ellipsoid tri- 

 gonous nearly nerveless, beak ^ | length of utricle. C. setigera, var. S 

 inclinis, Boott ms. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Tonglo, alt. 1C.OOO ft, and Lachen, alt. 12-13,000 ft., 

 J. D. H., &c. 



Glabrous, except minutely hairy utricles, Rhizotne creeping ; stolons elongate, 

 rather slender. Leaves numerous, 1 ft. (and upwards) by i in. Out of 17 terminal 

 tpikes 2 are wholly male, 15 fern, (usually only a few distant utricles) at base. 

 Spikes solitary f by in. ; male glumes dark red. Fern, glumes ovate-lanceolate, 

 mucronatc, not quite reaching beak of utricle. Technically near C. composita, 

 Boott. 



87. C. frag-ilis, Boott Carex, i. 7, t. 21 ; stem very slender, leaves 

 about as long as stem narrow, peduncles 3-6 very distant filiform, spikes 

 pale basal fern, distant, style 3-fid, utricle (unripe) oblong-obovoid minutely 

 scabrous-hairy, beak linear f- utricle. Boeck. in Linntea, xl. 383. 



SIKRIM HIMALAYA, alt. 11,000 ft. ; Lachen and Lachoong, J. D. H. 



Glabrous, except utricles. Rhizome very short, horizontal. Stems densely uni- 

 seriate, 8-14 in. Leaves | in. broad, lower 'l-3 in. long, upper up to 12 in. Lowest 

 peduncle 3-4'in., capillary, uppermost 1-2 in. Spikes sometimes 1 by i in. with 10 

 ferns, at base; sometimes 6-8-fld., very slender the 2 or 3 basal ferns, distant. Fein. 

 fjlvmes elliptic, 3-nerved, emargimite, often muticous. Utricle very obscurely few- 

 nerve d. Extremely like C. inclinis, collected at the same place by J. D. H. ; the 

 material of both being scanty, and the fruits of C.fiagilis only half ripe, it is not 



