Carex.] Cyperacece* 103 



smaller than the utricle, about -^ in. diam., orbicular, plano- 

 convex, apiculate, pale yellow-brown, polished, style longer 

 than the nut, slender, stigmas 2, long. 



On the patanas of the upper montane zone; rather common. Fl.. 

 Sept. 



Also in the Himalayas and Nilgiris, Malaya, China, and Japan. 



2. C. brunnea, Thunb. Fl. Japon, 38 (1784). 

 C. gracilis, Br.; Thw. Enum. 355. C. P. 2632. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 705. Boott, Carex, tt. 154, 155 {C. gracilis). 



Rootstock short, with wiry root-fibres ; stem 1-3 ft., very 

 slender, leafing above ; 1. many, as long as the stem and 

 shorter, linear, T V in. broad or narrower, narrowed into a long 

 capillary point, flat, margins scaberulous, sheaths short, lower 

 dark brown, not shining; infl. long, lax, nodding, sometimes 

 branching from the lowest sheath ; spikelets J-i in., on long 

 slender peduncles ; rhachilla slender ; bracts capillary, lower 

 shorter than the infl. ; fem. glumes very small, tV - tV i n -> rather 

 distant, membranous, from ovate and shorter than the utricle, 

 to lanceolate, long-acuminate, and much longer than the 

 utricle ; male fl. at the very slender tops of the terminal 

 spikelets ; utricles \ in., longer or shorter than the glumes, 

 elliptic, compressed, narrowed above into a 2-toothed beak, 

 sometimes as long as the body, and below into a stout stipes, 

 8-lO-veined on both surfaces, sparsely pubescent, dark brown ; 

 nut broadly elliptic, filling the body of the utricle, flattened, 

 polished, yellow-brown, style swollen at the base, at length 

 disarticulating, stigmas 2, very long. 



Upper montane zone; rather rare. N. Eliya; Horton Plains ; Matu- 

 rata. Fl. Nov.-Feb. 



Also in the Himalaya and Nilgiri Mts., and in Mauritius, Australia, 

 Japan, Sandwich Is. 



The nut is described in Fl. B. Ind. as suddenly contracted at the top, 

 and the utricle as 9-15-veined and as sometimes glabrous. — J. D. H. 



3. C. longipes, D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 329 (1824). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 704. 



Rootstock woody, creeping, root-fibres stout, tortuous ; 

 stem 18-24 in., very slender, 1-2-leaved above; 1. shorter than 

 the stem, 8-16 in. by \ in. broad or narrower, linear, flat, 

 narrowed into a filiform point, margins scaberulous, lower 

 sheaths short, pale ; infl. of few, very distant, very long- 

 peduncled, solitary, pale, few-fid. spikelets \-\\ in. long, the 

 upper male at the top, lower ped. up to 4 in. long, filiform; 

 bracts very slender ; fem. glumes rather loosely imbricating, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate or shortly awned, sides broadly 

 membranous ; utricles longer than the glumes, |-^ in., ellipsoid, 



