>Carex.] Cyperacece. 101 



minute ; fern, spikelets i-fld. ; glumes 4, distichous, 2 lower 

 -cymbiform, empty, upper oblong, 3-lobed, many-veined, side 

 lobes short, incurved, mid lobe stout, subulate; disk obscurely 



3-lobed ; style slender, stigmas 3 ; nut globose. — Monotypic. 



D. caricinum, Br. Prod. 241 (1810). 



Thw. Enum. 354. D. zeylanicum, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 119. 

 Scleria caricina, Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 426. S. axillaris, Moon, Cat. 

 162. C. P. 3035. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 668 {Scleria caricina). Endl. Iconogr. t. 25. 



Stem 4-8 in., slender, clothed with the l.-sheaths ; 1. 1-3, 

 by To~i in., obtuse or subacute, flat, flaccid, 3-veined, radical 

 •erect, cauline alt, spreading, sheaths closed, trigonous ; 

 •clusters of spikelets \~\ in. diam., green, ped. enclosed in the 

 l.-sheath; spikelets few in a cluster, ^ in. long; nut yg-^Vin. 

 -diam., globose, vertically 3-ribbed, cancellately rugose between 

 the ribs, white. 



Moist low country below 1000 ft., in wet places ; rather common. FL 

 .Sept.-March. 



Also in India, Malaya, China, Australia. 



Included in Scleria by most recent authors, but very distinct in habit 

 .and in the trifld, many-veined, fruiting glumes. In some Indian speci- 

 mens the lower clusters of spikelets are panicled. — J. D. H. 



22. CAREX, L. 

 Perennial, glabrous, rarely pubescent, grass-like herbs ; 

 stem leafy, chiefly at the base ; spikelets solitary, or few, one 

 terminal, the others lower down, rarely all clustered in terminal 

 -or axillary panicles or compound spikes, unisexual or andro- 

 gynous, the lower spikelets fern., with a few male at the base 

 •or top, very rarely dioecious, uppermost often wholly male ; 

 :glumes many, imbricate all round the rhachilla, persistent or 

 •deciduous ; fl. solitary in the glumes, male of 2 or 3 stam., anth. 

 linear, obtuse ; fern, a compressed or triquetrous ov. enclosed 

 in an urceolate 2-toothed sac (utricle), style slender, stigmas 



2 or 3 protruding from the sac ; nut minute, coriaceous, com- 

 -pressed or trigonous, included in the utricle. — Sp. about 500 ; 



142 in Fl. B. Ind. 



zStigmas 2, utricle compressed ( Vignea). 

 Terminal spikelet with male and fern. fl. 



Spikelets short, ovoid, or oblong . . . 1. C. nubigena. 

 Spikelets cylindric, elongate. 



Utricle scaberulous 2. C. BRUNNEA. 



Utricle glabrous, or nearly so. 



Utricle green 3. C. longipes. 



Utricle brown 4. C. LONGICRURIS. 



