Carex.] CLXXII. CYPERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 741 



461. C. paludosa, Gooden. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 202 ; Nees in Wight 

 Contrib. p. 129 ; Anderss. Gyp. Scand. 17 ; Kunih Enum. ii. 487 ; Reichb. 

 Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 28, t. 266 ;' Boott Carex, iv. 214. G. Kochiana, DC. Hort. 

 Monsp. 89; Reiclib. I. c. t. 271. 



KASHMIR, alt. 7000 ft., Thomson. NEPAL, Eoyle (n. 130). DISTEIB. Cool 

 N. temp, regions. 



This differs from C. rostrata and C. vesicaria by the thick dark-colrd. male 

 spikes, the suberect (not divaricate) ripe utricles, the fu.-cuus lurid grey colour of 

 utricles with shorter beak. In Jaeschke's Lahoul collections is a young Carex with 

 11 spikes, the lower peduncles carrying 3-4 spikts, style 3-fid, utricle glabrous ; 

 it is too young for determination, and resembles generally C. acuta rather than 0. 

 acutiformis, but the style is 3-fid so that it must be placed here. 



121. C. tumida, Boott Carex, i. 66, t. 181 ; spikes 5-6 suberect, 

 terminal one male long linear, lower fern, short-pedtmcled distant long- 

 cylindric dense, fern, glumes lanceolate short aristate pale, style 3-fid, 

 utricle ellipsoid fuscous glabrous suddenly narrowed into a conic-linear 

 shortly-notched beak. Boeck. in Linnsea, xli. 243. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 9000 ft., J. D. H., alt. 5000 ft., C. B. Clarke. KHASIA 

 HILLS ; Shillong, alt. 6000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Glabrous. Ste,ns 1218 in. Leaves longer than stem, 3 in. broad. Terminal 

 spike 2 in., very narrow, pale. Lower spikes fern. 2-3 by in., ripe iruits obliquely 

 suberect. Fern, glumes narrow-lanceolate, 3-nerved, stramineous, sborter than 

 utricle, aristate or muticous; bracts much overtopping infl. Utricle ^ in., not 

 inflated, thin, obscurely nerved, lurid slate-colrd. ; beak nearly as long as utricle 

 its lower half conic. Nut obovoid -ellipsoid, trigonous, filling utricle. The swelling 

 in the middle of the beak, figured and insisted on by Boott, is taken from a single 

 (not well-ripe) collection ; in well-ripened fruits the lower half of the beak is conic 

 the upper narrow oblong ; it is hardly possible to describe it as tumid in the 

 middle. 



122. C. olivacea, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 286, fy in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xx. 138, & Carex, i. 56, t. 149 ; spikes 4-8 suberect, terminal one male, 

 lower fern, somewhat distant short-peduncled long-cylindric dense, fern, 

 glumes lanceolate aristate pale, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid inflated fuscous 

 glabrous finally deflexed suddenly narrowed into a short linear notched 

 beak. C. confertiflora, Boott in Mem. Am. Acad. N. S. vi. [1859] 418, Sf 

 Carex, iv. 184 ; Franch. Sf Savat. PI. Japon. ii. 151, 578. 



SIKKIM ; Terai, /. D. H. ASSAM, alt. 300-1000 ft, frequent, C. B. Clarke, &c. 

 CACHAB, Keenan. DISTRIB. Java, Japan. 



usually shorter thicker denser. Young utricle ovoid-conic, gradually narrowed up- 

 wards, when ripe much inflated ; teeth of beak short, linear, finally spreading not 

 very prominent. Nut ellipsoid or ovoid, much smaller than utricle. Usually larger 

 than C. tumida ; it is easily told from it when young by the much thicker deeply- 

 colrd. male spike, when ripe by the inflated deflexed utricles. 



123. C. lobulirostris, Drejer Sijmb. Caric. 27, t. 14; spikes 4-6 

 approximate large cylindric erect, terminal one male dark brown, glumes 

 lanceolate aristate dark brown fern, much smaller, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid 

 somewhat inflated black red glabrous nervose suddenly narrowed into a 

 linear shortly-notched beak. Boott Carex, iv. 190; Tliw. Enum. 356; 

 Boeck. in Linncea, xli. 244. C. Arnottiana, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 



