742 CLXXII. CYPERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



260, Sf in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 129 (not of Drejer). C. Neesiana, Arnott 

 ms. (not of Endl.}. 



CEYLON, Gardner, &c., alt. 6-7000 ft., Thwaites. 



Glabrous. Stems 2-3 ft., rather stout. Leaves often overtopping stem, in. 

 broad. Spikes very close together, subsessile ; lowest sometimes 1 in. distant on a 

 1 in. peduncle ; bracts very long. Fern, spikes 2 by -^ in., rigid. Utricle in., 

 spreading, hardly deflexed/ longer than glumes, thin but somewhat succulent; beak 

 concolorous less than -| length of utricle. Nut ellipsoid, trigonous, subsessile, 

 pyramidal at top, shortly apiculate, dark-brown. 



124. C- lurida, C. B. Clarice ; spikes 4-5 distant cylindric, terminal 

 2-3 male purple, lower fern, erect peduncled dense, fern, glumes elliptic 

 aristate, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid inflated thin lurid glabrous suddenly- 

 narrowed into a deeply bifid beak with 2 spreading prominent linear teeth. 

 C. rostrata, BoecJc. in Linnsea, xli. 317 (the Sllckim plant}. C. ampullacea, 

 var. Boott ins. Caricis sp. (n. 1067), Griff. Itin. Notes, 194. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen, alt. 9-12,000 ft., /. D. H. BHOTAN ; Chupcha, 

 alt. 8000 ft., Griffith (Keiv Distrib. n. 6066). 



Male glumes purple-red with green keel, triangular tipped. Fern, glumes purple- 

 red on sides, the 3-nerved yellow back excurrent in a rigid scabrous arista, about a& 

 long as utricle. Utricles in size and shape about equalling those of small examples 

 of C. rostrata, but different in colour; beak 2-fid very deeply into linear teeth 

 finally stellately divaricate, conspicuous. Boott observes that he has never seen 

 anchfem. glumes as these in C. rostrata. 



125. C. fuscifructus, C. B. Clarice ; spikes 3-6 suberect somewhat 

 distant, terminal one male greenish, lower fern, cylindric dense short- 

 peduncled, fern, glumes lanceolate acute mucronate pale, style 3-fid, utricles 

 ovoid, fuscous many-nerved glabrous, beak oblong conic very long shortly 

 2-fid. 



ASSAM; Luckimpore, alt. 300 ft., C. -B. Clarke. 



Glabrous, stoloniferous. Stems 15 in., rather stout. Leaves overtopping stem, 

 scarcely in. broad. Lowest spike sometimes as much as 3 in. distant on a 2 in. 

 peduncle, usually much closer ; bracts 1 ft. Male spike 1| in., glumes very green 

 on back, aristate. Fern, spikes H by - in. ; glumes 3-nerved, rather shorter 

 than utricles, scabrous-pointed. Utricle nearly i in., conically narrowed at base, 

 somewhat inflated ; exserted part of style-branches hardly utricle. 



*** Utricle hairy, or minutely setulose. 



126. C. flacca, Schreb. Spicil. Fl. Lips. Append, n. 669 ; spikes 4-6 

 distant long-cylindric, terminal 3-2 male, fern, glumes ovate acute, style 

 3-fid rarely 2-fid, utricle ellipsoid turgid obtuse puberulous-scabrous, 

 beak minute subentire. Host Gram. Austr. i. 66, t. 90; t. P, fig. 57, & 

 t. Zz, fig. 113. C. glauca, Scop. Cam. ii. 223; Kunih Fnum. ii. 459; 

 ReicJib. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 29, t. 269; Drejer Symb. Caric. 20, t. 6; BoecJc. 

 in Linncea, xli. 187. 



SIND, Pinwill. Temp. N. Hemisphere. 



Glabrous, glaucous. Stolons long, hardening into a creeping branching rhizome 

 15 in. long in a Sind example. Stems 8-18 in. Leaves f stem, f in. broad, harsh. 

 Fein, spikes 1 by -^ in., dense in fruit ; male spikes often longer 1| in. in Sind 

 examples. Lowest spike short-peduncled, erect, or if very remote long-peduncled 

 long-sheathed; bracts usually about as long as infl. Utricle small, about r ^ in. in 

 the Sind plant, obscurely trigonous. 



