Carex.'] CLXXII. CTPERACE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) 743 



127. C. setigrera, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 330, & Prodr. 43 ; 

 stoloniferous, spikes 4-8 cylindric distant, terminal 1 (or 2-3) male, lowest 

 fern, peduncled erect, fern, glumes ovate often aristate, style 3-fid, utricles 

 ovoid hispid suddenly narrowed into small oblong notched beak. Nees in 

 Wight Contrib. 126 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 515 (partly] ; Boeck. in Linncea, xli. 

 189 (excl. Bpott, t. 6, cited). C. hymenolepis, Neea I. c. 126 ; Kunth I. c. 

 505. C. setigera, var. minor, Strachey Cat. PI. JZumaon, 73 (not Boott). 

 Carex, Wall. Gat. 3385. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 7-10,000 ft., frequent, from Mussoorie, Jacquemont, to Sikkim, 

 J. D. H., and Phari, G. King. 



Glabrous. Rhizome long, creeping, ~ in. in. diam. Stems 1-2 ft. Leaves 

 nearly as long as stem, | i in. broad. Spikes 1^-2 in. long (in the typical C. 

 hymenolepis, hardly half as much in the var. chronlepis, Drejer), fern, up to ^ in. 

 broad (but not more than | in. broad in smaller forms referred here) ; lowest fern, 

 spike often male at top, rather lax, often interrupted at base. Fein, glumes as long 

 as utricle, with a bristle much overtopping utricle in the standard form (which is 

 often small or disappears) usually with bright brown sides and scarious margins (but 

 the colour of male and fern, glumes varies widely). Utricle -^ ^ in., brown-green, 

 very hispid, nerveless, strongly 2-edged, the concave face only obscurely ridged by 

 the angle of nut, margined by the incurved edges. Nut ellipsoid, trigonous, nar- 

 rowed much at base, dark brown; style slender, glabrous, base not dilated; exsert 

 part of branches about as long as utricle. 



128. C. Schlag-intweitiana, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. i. 48 ; stoloniferous, 

 spikes 3-6 very small cylindric distant pale, terminal 1 (or 2) male, lowest 

 fern, peduncled erect, fern, glumes ovate often mucronate, style 3-fid, 

 utricle very small ovoid hispid suddenly narrowed into small oblong 

 notched beak. C. setigera, var. ft minor, Boott Carex, i. 2, t. 6, fig. 1 (not 

 fig. 2). 



N.W. HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft. ; Kashmir, C. B. Clarice ; Nynee Tal, Thomson ; 

 Simla, Schlagintweit (n. 5039), Ac. SIND, Pinwill. DISTRIB. Yarkand. 



Stolons numerous, long. Stems 4-10 in., slender. Leaves overtopping stem, 

 y^ in. broad. Pern, spikes (in fruit) j by T y-g in., weak. Utricles hardly ^ in. 

 long.- Otherwise as C. setigera, Don, from which this differs mainly in size. 



129. C. in an is, Kunth Enum. ii. 522; spikes 4-12 cylindric approxi- 

 mate, terminal one male, fern, glumes ovate sometimes mucronate, style 

 3-fid, utricle small ovoid trigonous hispid suddenly narrowed into a small 

 notched beak. C. setigera, minor, .Boott Carex, i. 2, t. 6 (mostly, i. e. 

 fig. 2). C. setigera, y humilis, Nees in Wight Contrib. 126. C. setigera, 

 var. fascicularis, Strachey Cat. PI. Kumaon, 73. C. setigera, Kunth Enum. 

 ii. 515 (partly). Ca.rex sp. (Royle, n. 122), Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 120. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 7-10,000 ft. ; from Kashmir, Q. B. Clarke, to Sikkim, J. D. H. 



Rhizome divided, short, i. e. arises from lateral offsetts not from elongate stolons. 

 Stems 2-15 in., slender. Leaves overtopping stem, narrow. Bracts very long, con- 

 spicuously overtopping infl. Spikes (in fruit) f by in., dense, grey-green, upper 

 often fascicled, lowest sometimes a little distant, short-peduncled, occasionally carry- 

 ing 3-4 spikes. Fem 4 glumes frequently muticous, the midrib sometimes shortly 

 excurrent. Utricle much smaller than in C. setigera, Don, more turgid, without 

 one face concave. Spikes much denser than those of C. setigera, Don. 



130. C. kashmirensis, C. B. Clarke ; spikes 3-6 short-cylindric 

 approximate, terminal 1-3 male, fern, glumes ovate muticoug, style 3-fid, 

 utricle ellipsoid lanceolate trigonous hispid acuminated into oblong deeply 

 bifid beak. C. hirtella, Boott ma. (partly). 



