Carex.] CLXXII. CYPEBACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 737 



(occasionally fern, at base) small, lower fern, cylindric very dense rigid pale, 

 style 3-fid, utricle ovoid glabrous suddenly contracted into a linear-conic 

 beak. Schk. Riedgr. i. 115, t. Ww, fig. 110 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 517. C. 

 japonica, /3 minor, Boott Carex, ii. 88. C. chlorostachys, Don in Trans. 

 'Linn. Soc. xiv. 330 and Prodr. 43. C. Doniana, Spreng. St/st. iii. 825 ; 

 Neesin Wight Contrib. 128; Kunth I.e. 503; Boott in Perry Exped. Jap. 

 ii. 327 (Donniana). C. Motoskei, Miq_. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 148. 

 C. trichostyles, Franch. et Savat, PL Japan, ii. 152, 581. Carex, Wall. 

 Cat. 3395. 



NEPAL; Wallich. SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Herb. Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6079) 

 KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5500-6000 ft., frequent, C. B. Clarke. DISTRIB. Japan. 



Description of Khasian plant. Glabrous. Rhizome often 8 in. very slender, 

 with pale brown scales. Stems 6-15 in., rather stout, very acutely triquetrous. 

 Leaves often as long as stem, i- in. broad. Fern, spikes -1 by in., very short- 

 peduncled, suberect, green or yellowish, when young almost comose from the brown- 

 red styles; terminal spike small, almost concealed among the fern, spikes; bracts 

 far overtopping infl. Fern, glumes ovate-lanceolate, aristate, green with scarious 

 margins, hardly so long as utricle. Utricles in., very close-packed, obliquely 

 ascending, trigonous, 8-nerved, beak narrow, notched, glabrous or most minutely 

 scabrous. Nut ellipsoid, subacute at both ends, filling the utricle. None of the 

 Khasian specimens match the original 0. japonica, described by Thunb. " spicis 

 ovati*," and figured by Schkuhr (= C. aphanolepis, Franch. et Savat.). The 

 Indian C. japonica is C. chlorostachys, Don, which is near the- following var. 



Var. /3 alovecuroides (ep.) Don in Trans. Linn. Sbc. xiv. 332 & Prodr. 43 ; tall, 

 spikes 2 in. long linear-cylindric, male spike often as long as female/ frequently 

 female at top, utricle ellipsoid passing almost gradually into oblong b^ik. Nees in , 

 Wight Contrib. 128; Boott Carex, ii. 88, t. 258; Boeck. in Linnaa, xli.172. C. 

 emodorum, Spreng. Syst. iii. 818; Kunth Enum. ii. 516. C. juponica, Booti Carex, 

 ii. 88, t. 257 (easel, var. /3) ; Boeck. I. c. 283. C. Doni .na, Drejer Symb. 26 V t. 13. 

 Carex, Wall. Cat. 3395 A (partly) B. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; alt. 5-7000 ft., J. D. H. KHASIA HILLS; Nunklao, alt. 

 4-5000 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. MUNEYPOOR : alt. 8500 ft, Watt. -^-DiST RLE. 

 Japan. > " ^ ~ 



Out of 31 spikes collected by me at Nunklao 14 have the terinjnal spike ^(mostly 

 plentifully) fern, at top. Stems much less 3-winged than in the Khasia C. japonica. 

 Both Boott and Boeckcler have reduced this plant to C. japonica, Thunb., but it is 

 very unlike it in general aspect ; the principal difference I find in the male spike 

 which is in C. japonica short occasionally female at base, in var. (?) alopecuroides 

 long, frequently fern, at top. 



111. C. diluta, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Caycas. ii. p. 388 ; iii. 614; 

 spikes 3-10 distant, terminal one male, lower fern, cylindric dense rusty 

 green, glumes shorter than utricle rough- tipped, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid 

 obscurely striate glabrous green narrowed into a short-oblong notched 

 beak. Kunth Enum. ii. 448 ; Boott Carex, iv. 139, t. 448 ; Boer.Jc. in 

 Linntea, xli. 235 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 425. C. punctata, Gaudin Agrost. ii. 

 (1811), 152 & Fl. Helvet. vi. 106, t. 2 ; Kunth I. c. 448 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 viii. 22, t. 251 ; Boott Carex, iv. 155, t. 500 ; Boeck. 1. c. 271. C. laevicaulis, 

 Kunze Suppl. 31, t. 6, fig. 2. C. rigidifolia, Seub. Fl. Azor. 21, t. 2, 

 fig. 1. 



N. KASHMIR ; Indus Valley, alt. 7650-9000 ft., frequent, C. B. Clarke. KUNA- 

 WUR ; alt. 11,000 ft., Munro. DISTBIB. Cabul and Central Asia to Lapland and 

 the Azores. 



Glabrous. Stolons 0. Stems caespitose, 6 in. to 3 ft. Leaves very variable (in 

 Indian examples) sometimes less than length of stems in. broad, sometimes 20 

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