744 CLXXII. CYPERACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



KASHMIR, alt. 10-15,000 ft., Thomson, frequent, C. . Clarke. 



Resembles generally C. ^rcecox or C. pilulifera, but has an oblong 1 beak to 

 utricle ending in two s<arious lanceolate teeth. Rhizome short, creeping, divided. 

 Stems 8-16 in., slender. Leaves all nearly basal, length of stein, in. broad, flat. 

 Infl. usually 1-1 i n - > bracts not (or scarcely) overtopping infl, Spikes very close, 

 nearly sessile ; lowest fern, occasionally 1-1^ in. distant, then shortly peduncled. 

 Spikes 5 in., ferruginous; fem. with 8-20 utricles. Utricle % in. long (much 

 smaller than in C. hirtella}, greenish, about 8-ribbed. Nut filling utricle, dark 

 brown, oblong-ellipsoid ; style microscopically scabrous-pilose, exsert branches about 

 as long as utricle. The preceding C. tftants, Knnth, is distinguished from the present 

 sp. by its very long bracts. 



131. C. haematostoma, Nees in Wight Contrib. 125; spikes 4-10 

 linear-cylindric, uppermost 3-1 male, lower fem. somewhat distant short- 

 peduncled suberect, fem. glumes ovate, style 3-fid, utricle much com- 

 pressed ovoid tip triangular-oblong deeply 2-fid hairy, nut stalked, style 

 hairy. Kunth Enum. ii. 514 ; Strachey Cat. PI. Kumaon, 73 ; Boott 

 Carex, i. 72, t. 196 ; Boeck. in Linneea, xli. 302. C. macrogyna, Boott I. c. 

 7, t. 22 ; Boeck. I. c. 223 (not of Turcz). 



HIMALAYA and W. TIBET ; N. Sikkim, alt. 12-17,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. Kumaon, 

 alt. 10-13,000 ft., Duthie, &c. Kunawur, alt. 7-9000 ft., Royle, &c. Nubra, alt. 

 15-17,000 ft., Thomson. DISTRIB. Central Asia. 



Glabrous, except spikes. Rhizome short; no stolons seen. Stems 830 in., 

 unusually terete. Leaves 4-20 by in., weak, flat when dry. Spikes sometimes 2 

 by in. (or in some high-level Sikkim examples^ by in. few-fld.), chestnut-purple. 

 Fem. glumes shorter than utricle, mucronate, dark chestnut with or without a broad 

 green back, in the large Sikkim examples brown-pilose, in Royle's plant nearly 

 (sometimes quite) glabrous. Utricle -i in., with few obscure nerves, usually 

 browner upwards. Nut oblong-obovoid, trigonous, obtuse, with short oblong api- 

 culus. 



132. C. hirtella, Drejer Symb. Caric. 21 ; leaves very narrow en- 

 rolled when dry, utricle ellipsoid-lanceolate very long otherwise as G. 

 hsematostoma, Nees. Boott Carex, i. 11, t. 31 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xli. 209, 

 <$f in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 105. C. tenuis, Nees in Wight Contrib. 128; 

 Kunth Enum. ii. 516. 



KASHMIR, alt. 9-13,OCO ft., very common. KUNAWUR, Royle. GURWHAL, 

 alt. 9-10,000 ft., Duthie (n. 62). 



The full form has utricles | in. long and is very marked ; but eastern examples 

 have smaller utricles, and are hardly distinguishable from C. hirtella by their very 

 narrow inrolled leaves. The utricles in both species are triangular at tip without 

 any definite beak ; the terete stems, the" much-stalked nut, and the very hairy style 

 are characteristic of both species. The spikes in C. hirtella are (usually) 3 male, 

 3-2 fem. ; the glistening margins of the glumes are sometimes very prominent, some- 

 times not more so than in C. hcematostoma and many sp. 



133. C. cardiolepis, Nees in Wight Contrib. 127 ; spikes 3-5 distant 

 cylindric, terminal one male, fem. glumes ovate truncate mucronate pale- 

 backed, style 3-fid, utricles obovoid-ellipsoid trigonous scabrous bristly 

 suddenly narrowed into minute oblong beak. Kunth Enum. ii. 516 ; 

 Strachey Cat. PL Kumaon, 73 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xli. 200 # in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xviii. 105 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 409. 



N.W. HIMALAYA, alt. 8-11,000 ft., frequent; from Kumaon to Kashmir. 

 DISTRIB. Cabul. 



Glabrous. Stems 6-18 in., csespitose on a tough short rootstock. Leaves often 

 nearly as long as stem. -^ in. broad, flat. Lowest fem. spike in fruit 1 by i in., 



