Carex.] CLXXII. CYPERACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 735 



small specimens Boott could not sort between C. cruenta and C. ustulata. These 

 are very near C. fuliginosa, Schkur, which looks different by reason of its paler 

 utricles. C. cruenta no doubt extends to Central Asia, but it is not known under 

 what name the Russian botanists record it. 



104. C. maculata, Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 128 and Carex, i. 

 9, t. 26 ; stems 8-24 in. slender, spikes 3-10 cylindric dense rigid dark 

 terminal one male paler, lowest remote, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid-triangular 

 nervose dark brown glabrous granular beakless gland-dotted to base. Thiv. 

 Enum. 355 ; Boeck. inLinncea, xl. 191. C. micans, Boott in Mem. Am.Acad. 

 (N. s.) vi. 419. 



KHASIA; alt. 4000 ft., C.B. Clarke, &c. NiLaniRi HILLS; alt. 5000 ft., C. B. 

 Clarice, &c. CEYLON; alt. 5000 ft., Thwaites. DISTKIB. Korea, Japan, Australia. 



Glabrous. Rhizome creeping ; steins 1-3 together. Leaves nearly as long as 

 stem, narrow (hardly more than ^ in. broad). Fern, spikes nearly 1 in. by f- in. 

 in diam. ; lowest (sometimes very remote), peduncled (peduncle often 2-4 in.), upper 

 fern, often clustered erect, male slenderer sessile bright brown ; bracts overtopping 

 the infl., leaf-like. Fern, glumes % in., narrow triangular, sub-3-nerved, pale 

 brown with a green centre. Utricles unequally trigonous, 5-8-nerved on each face. 

 Nut sessile, -f utricle. 



105. C. vicinalis, Boott Carex, iv. 133, t. 428, fig. 2 ; three upper 

 spikes male, fern. 3 distant long-cylindric dense lowest peduncled, style 

 3-fid or occasionally 2-fid, utricle ovoid beakless glabrous minutely 

 granular. 



NILGHIBI HILLS ; Schmidt. 



Apparently 3 ft high. Lowest "bract about 1 foot, much overtopping infl., not 

 sheathing. Male spikes f in., pale bright brown, close together. Fern, spikes 1 by 

 ^-i in., erect; lowest peduncle 2 in. ; lowest spike 3 in., distant. Fern, glumes 

 elliptic, obtuse, dark purple with green back. Utricle (unripe) -j- 1 ^ in. long, dusky 

 grey, obscurely 3 5-nerved on convex face, triangular at either end ; style-branches 

 hardly ^ length of utricle. Boott compares this species with 0. caespititia, Nees ; 

 but the style in C. vicinalis appears generally 3-fid. The only specimen consists of 

 the top of one stem, as figured by Boott. 



** Utricle glabrous, beak long. 



106. C. Jackiana, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 260 and in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 132 and Carex, i. 9, t. 25 ; spikes 3-9 distant, uppermost one 

 male, others cylindric-lanceolate, style 3-fid, utricle rather large ellipsoid- 

 lanceolate strongly many-nerved glabrous lurid green gradually narrowed 

 into conic beak. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 353. C. instabilis, Boott ms. ex 

 Boeck. in Linncea, xli. 246. C. papulosa, Boott in Mem. Am. Acad. vi. 

 n.s. 418. 



KHASIA HILLS; alt. 3-6000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 6090), &c. DISTRIB. 

 Java, Japan. 



Glabrous. Stems 2 ft., triquetrous, stoutish, scabrous at top. Leaves nearly as 

 long as stem, i in. broad. Spikes 1 by - in., lower usually 34 in. apart, then 

 erect on short stout peduncle, but rarely a peduncle near base of stem (then of course 

 long slender) is added ; spikes lax-fld., somet'mes 23 in. long with lower flowers 

 remote ; bracts overtopping infl. Fern, glumes ovate, acute, pale, scarious, acute or 

 mucronate. Utricle in., subtrigonous, slightly inflated, very strongly nerved ; beak 

 as long as nut, notched. Nut obovoid, triquetrous, pale. The Khasian plant agrees 

 very closely with the Javan. 



Var. ? minor ; much slenderer, spikes few often few-fld. ovoid, utricle ovoid 

 slightly nerved suddenly narrowed into a linear beak. C. Jackiana, Thw. Enum. 



