746 CLXXII. CYPEKACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex 



examples since Boott (collected by Duthie) are intermediate between the Sikkim and 

 Kashmir. The Kashmir plant, both in the truncate glumes and utricles, is near 

 0. cardiolepis, Nees, but the spikes and utricles are much slenderer. 



137. C. olig-ocarya, G. B. Clarke-, slender, spikes 4-1 terminal 1 

 male, fern, spikes peduncled with 4-1 utricles, style 3-fid, utricle obovoid- 

 ellipsoid pilose suddenly narrowed into a long deeply-notched beak. 



N.W. TIBET j Dras to the Karakorum, alt. 12-13,000 ft., C. B. ClarJce. 



Glabrous except utricles. Rhizome stout, horizontal. Stems 6-10 in. Leaves 

 numerous, much shorter than stem, -^ in. broad, flat. Spikes - in., terminal one 

 male often with a fern, close to its base or may be termed " androgynous male at top/' 

 Lowest fern, spike 1-2 in. distant, on a 1-1| slender peduncle ; bracts shorter than 

 infl. Fern, glumes elliptic-lanceolate, hardly mucronate, shorter than fruit. Utricle 

 (beak included) - i u>5 trigonous, about 8-ribbed, brown-green ; beak f length, of 

 body. Utricle ending in two long lanceolate white glabrous teeth. Nut ellipsoid, 

 trigonous, filling utricle ; base of style not dilated, branches long. The European 

 and Asiatic few-utriculate species compared have all a much shorter beak than 

 this. 



138. C. breviculmis* Br. Prodr. 242; slender, spikes 2-5 oblong 

 rather small, terminal one male pale, fern, with 8^14 utricles, fern, glumes 

 with long bristle much exceeding utricles, style 3-fid base dilated, utricle 

 small ellipsoid trigonous slightly hairy, tip pyramidal. Kunth Enum. ii. 

 522 ; Boott Carex^iv. 181 ; Boeck. in Linneea, xli. 209. C. Royleana, Nees 

 in Wight Contrib. 127 ; Kunth 1. c. 441 ; Boott Carex, i. 6, t. 19. C. leuco- 

 chlora, Bunge in Petersb. Mem. Sav. Etrany. ii. 142. C. Langsdorfii, Boott 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 144. C. puberula, Boott in Perry Exped. Jap. ii. 

 234. 



N.-W. HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft., Boyle, &c. SIND ; Pinwill. KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 4500-6300 ft., C. JB. Clarke. MUNETPOOE; alt. 6000 ft., Watt. 

 NILGIRI HILLS j alt. 7000 ft., C. B. Clarke DISTRIB. Japan, China, Austral., N. 

 Zealand. 



Glabrous, except utricles. Rhizome creeping. Stems csespitose, 4-16 in. 

 Leaves often f stem, | in. broad, flat. Spikes usually approximate, subsessile ; 

 lowest fern, sometimes 6 in. distant on 2 in. peduncle ; tern, ripe spikes by 

 in. Style at base dilated green, sometimes forming a button as in the nuts of 

 Eleocharis. 



139. C. nemostachys, Steud. in Flora, xxix. 23 and Gyp. 218 ; ro- 

 bust, stolons long, spikes 3-8 approximate long-cylindric very dense, 

 terminal one male, style 3-fid, female glumes linear-caudate, utricle ovoid 

 trigonous somewhat hairy beak long conic-linear. Miq. in Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd. Bat. ii. 150, 211; C. excurva, Boott Carex, i. 57, t. 150; Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xli.' 245. C. Zollingeri, Boeck. I.e. 242. Carex sp., Griff. Itin. 

 Notes, 86 (n. 1256). 



KHASIA and Jaintea Hills, alt. 3-5000 ft., everywhere very common, J. D. 

 Hooker, &c. GARO HILLS ; alt. 1200 ft., G. -B. ClarJce. DISTRIB. China, Japan. 



Glabrous, except utricles. Stolon very long, stout. Stems 3-1 ft., at top 

 triquetrous scabrous. Leaves often as long as stem, i in. broad, flat, margins 

 scabrous, cutting ; sheaths often fimbriated. Male spike sometimes 4 by in., 

 always long; fern, spikes erect (peduncles hardly in.) 3 by in., dense, appearing 

 hispid from the linear beaks spreading in all directions and the long persistent 

 style-branches. Fern, glumes from a very short triangular base, linear as long as 

 utricles, finally whitening. Utricle (beak included) about ^ in. An unmistakable 

 plant that cuts severely. 



