<Carex.] Cyperacece. 105 



stout, hispid awn in the sinus, rusty-red, keel green; utricle 

 ■ iV ' ib in-, sessile, subtrapezoid, obovoid or ovoid, obtuse, beak 



0, strongly compressed, dark purple, veinless, sparsely fur- 

 furaceous; nut nearly filling the utricle, ellipsoid, strongly 

 compressed, narrowed above into a short truncate beak, and 

 below into a short stout stipes, smooth, pale brown, style very 

 short, stigmas 2, shorter than the utricle. 



Upper montane zone ; common. Fl. Aug. 

 Hills of India, Burma, and Malaya, Japan. 



6. C. Arnottiana, Nees ex Drejer, Symb. Caricol. 16 (1844) {non 

 Boott). 



Thw. Enum. 356. C. soda, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 254. C. P. 

 3219. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 709. Drejer, 1. c. t. 5. 



Rootstock small, root-fibres stout; stem 2-3 ft., stout, 

 triquetrous, angles smooth or scaberulous; 1. as long as the 

 stem or shorter, nearly ^ in. broad or narrower, flat, finely 

 acuminate, margins and keel scaberulous, lower sheaths 

 coriaceous, pale; infl. elongate, of many long-peduncled 

 spikelets, lower bract long, foliaceous; spikelets 2-4 in. by 

 ^ in. diam., drooping, ped. of lowest 1-3 in., dark brown, 

 •cylindric, tips of many contracted, male; fem. glumes closely 

 imbricating, fruiting spreading or subrecurved, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, or awned, dark red-brown, keel green; utricle 

 Y2 in., obovoid or nearly orbicular, strongly compressed, 

 rather abruptly narrowed above into a short, truncate, ob- 

 scurely 2-toothed beak, purplish-black, shoulders subfur- 

 furaceous; nut much smaller than the utricle, orbicular, 

 biconvex, brown, suddenly narrowed above into a very short 

 truncate beak, and below into a stout short stipes, style slender, 

 stigmas 2, shorter than the utricle. 



Upper montane zone ; common. Fl. April. 

 Endemic. 



7. C rara, Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 139 (1846). 

 Thw. Enum. 354. C. P. 3080. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 713. Boott, Carex, t. 109. 



Rootstock very short, slender; stems 6-20 in., densely 

 tufted, filiform, leafless except towards the base, triquetrous; 



1. as long as the stem or shorter, filiform, flexuous, channelled 

 along the upper surface, scaberulous towards the narrowed 

 obtuse tip, sheaths very short, membranous, pale; spikelets 

 J-| in., solitary, ovoid, pale, male at the top ; fem. glumes not 

 •numerous, broadly ovate or oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 3-veined 

 in the middle; utricle longer than the glumes, - 1 V""i 1 g m - l° n g> 

 ovoid or ellipsoid, subtrigonous, strongly veined, narrowed 



