1 06 Cyperacece. [Carex: 



above into a short 2-fid beak, and below into a short, stout 

 stipes, smooth, pale ; nut nearly as long as the utricle, narrowly 

 oblong, trigonous, narrowed above into a long beak, and 

 below into a short stipes, pale, smooth, style short, stigmas 3,. 

 about as long as the utricle. 



Upper montane zone above 6000 ft.; rather common. Fl. Jan., Feb. 

 Also in tbe Himalayas and in Japan, Borneo, and Australia. 

 Spikelets in Indian specimens \-\ in. long. 



8. C. Walkeri, Arn. ex Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 257 (1849). 

 Thw. Enum. 355. Boott, Carex, i. 2. C. P. 2751. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 725. Boott, 1. c. t. 4. 



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

 stem stout, 2-3 ft., high, trigonous, leafy upwards; 1. as long 

 as the stem or shorter, up to \ in. broad, narrowed into a very 

 long filiform tip, rigidly coriaceous, scabrid, strongly keeled,, 

 sheaths coriaceous, basal purplish-red; infl. 12—18 in., panicled,. 

 spikelets very many, from the upper sheaths, long-peduncled, 

 subcorymbosely clustered, 1-3 in. long, very slender, dark 

 chestnut-brown, shining, peduncles and rhachilla capillary; 

 bracts leafy, scabrid, lowest shorter than the infl. ; fern, glumes 

 laxly imbricate, suberect, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse with 

 a long scabrid dorsal awn inserted below the tip ; utricles- 

 \-\ in., longer than the glumes, lanceolate, narrowed into a 

 long acutely 2-fid flattened beak, straight or falcately recurved,, 

 trigonous, smooth, vein less, lateral angles and beak spinulose,, 

 dorsal angle smooth ; nut narrowly ellipsoid, trigonous, pale, 

 narrowed upwards into a rough style longer than itself, and 

 below into a stipes, stigmas 3, shorter than the beak of the 

 utricle. 



Montane zone, above 4000 ft.; rather common. Hantane ; Amba- 

 gamuwa; Maturata; Pedurutalagala. Fl. Feb., April, Sept., Oct. 

 Also in the Nilgiri Hills. 



9. C. spicigera, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 121 (1834). 

 Boott, Carex, i. 10. Thw. Enum. 355. C. P. 822. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 722. Boott, 1. c. t. 29. 



Rootstock hard, creeping, stoloniferous, with copious wiry 

 root-fibres, stems 6 in. to 2 ft., leafy upwards, rather stout, or 

 slender ; 1. narrowly linear, \ in. broad or less, many longer than 

 the stem, finely acuminate, rigid, scaberulous, basal sheaths 

 chestnut-brown ; spikelets short, ovoid or globose, \-\ in. long, 

 panicled or collected in dense lobed heads, all fern, or upper- 

 most male at the top; lower bracts foliaceous, much longer 

 than the infl. ; fern, glumes much shorter than the utricle,, 

 broadly oblong or orbicular-ovate, obtuse or acute, rarely 

 awned ; utricle ellipsoid, T2-1V * n - ^ on S- 



