104 Cyperacecz. [Carex. 



biconvex, narrowed above into a scaberulous beak as long 

 as the body, and below into a stipes, 8-9-veined on both faces, 

 membranous, shining; nut broadly ellipsoid or almost orbi- 

 cular, apiculate, biconvex, sides rounded, style long, base 

 swollen, stigmas 2, shorter than the utricle. 



Montane zone (Trimen). 



Also in the Himalaya and Khasia Hills and China. 



I find a sheet of this very distinct species in the Peradeniya Herbarium 

 ticketed by Dr. Trimen C. longipes, Don, and a single specimen on a 

 sheet of C. brunnea, ticketed C. gracilis, Br.; both sheets are numbered 

 C. P. 2749, but not in Thwaites's hand. 



4. C. longricruris, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 124 (1834). 

 C. longifies, Thw. Enum. 355 (non D. Don). C. P. 2749. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 705. Boott, Carex, t. 157. 



Rootstock small, hard, nodose, root-fibres wiry ; stem 

 1-2 ft., very slender, leafing above; 1. many, shorter than the 

 stem, 8-18 in. by yV in., very narrowly linear, narrowed into a 

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

 •dark brown, not shining ; infl. very long, narrow, nodding, 

 rhachis filiform, ped. several from the lower bracts, simple or 

 branched, capillary; bracts very slender, lower 2-3 in., upper 

 capillary ; spikelets many, J-i in., erect, slender, red-brown, 

 upper male at the top, rhachilla capillary; fern, glumes laxly 

 imbricating, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or shortly 

 awned ; utricle rather longer than the glume, 7-^ in., elliptic- 

 lanceolate, narrowed above into a slender, straight beak as 

 long as the body, and below into a stipes, biconvex, about 

 5-veined on each face, quite glabrous, or margins of beak 

 scaberulous ; nut elliptic, rounded at both ends, sides acute, 

 brown, style slender, stigmas 2, very long. 



Montane zone above 4000 ft.; rather common. Maturata; Hewaheta, 

 Nuwara Eliya. Fl. Nov., July. 



Also in the Himalaya and Nilgiri Hills. 



5. C. phacota, Spreng. Syst. iii. 826 (1826). 

 Thw. Enum. 356. C. P. 2965. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 708. Boott, Carex, t. 168. 



Rootstock creeping, woody, with stout root-fibres; stem 

 \-2\ ft., stout, triquetrous, except at the top, smooth, leafy 

 upwards ; 1. as long as the stem or shorter, by \-\ in. broad, 

 finely acuminate, flat, rigid, margins smooth except towards 

 the tips, lower sheaths coriaceous, pale; infl. short, of 4-6 

 spikelets; bracts long, lowest leafy, upper filiform; spikelets 

 \\-i\ by \ in. diam., peduncled, cylindric, straight or curved, 

 terminal, slender, rusty-red, wholly male, as are the tips of 

 some of the lower; fern, glumes closely imbricating, squarrosely 

 spreading and recurved in fr., oblong, 2-lobed, with a short, 



