Carex.] Cyperacece. 107 



Var. minor, Thw.; Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. C. P. 824. 

 Stem 6-10 in. high, densely tufted, 1. very narrow, spikelets 

 small, often depauperate, with very few shortly beaked pale 

 utricles T V in. long. 



Var. rubella, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. C. spicigera, var. /3, Thw. 

 1. c. C. rubella, Boott, 1. c. iv. 176, and t. 599. C. P. 2966. 



Tall, rather stout, spikelets crowded in ovoid lobed heads, 

 utricle dorsally compressed, orbicular or very broadly obovate, 

 obtuse, beak o. 



Var. rostrata, Boeck. in Linncea, xl. 369. C. P. 2629. Fl. B. 

 Ind. 1. c. 



Tall, slender, spikelets crowded on short axillary peds., 

 utricle ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a bifid beak, nut 

 chestnut-brown. 



Moist region up to 6000 ft. ; common, especially in the lower montane 

 zone. Var. minor, montane zone, 4-7200 ft, Ramboda ; Dimbula ; 

 Pedurutalagala. Var. rubella, Maturata. Var. rostrata, N. Eliya. FL 

 Oct.. March. 



Endemic. 



I suspect that C. exigua, Boeck., in Engl. Jahrb. v. 524 (1884), from 

 Ceylon, is included in var. minor. There is a specimen from him col- 

 lected in 1862 in Pedra, whence also came his specimen from Wichura,. 

 n. 2690, cited in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 748. — Trimen. 



10. C. leucantha. Am. ex Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 257 (1849). 

 Thw. Enum. 355. C. P. 2631. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 721. Boott, Carex, t. 28. 



Rootstock woody, creeping; stems 1-2 ft, slender, leafless 

 upwards (except for the bracts), trigonous, angles scaberulous; 

 1. longer and shorter than the stem, very narrow, \ in. broad 

 and less, rigid, scabrid, narrowed into long slender points, 

 basal sheaths dirty brown ; infl. very long, of very distant, 

 small, pale, clusters \ in. long and less, of shortly peduncled 

 few-fi., sessile, ovoid spikelets \-\ in. long; bracts leafy, 

 lower overtopping the infl. ; fern, glumes ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, awned, awn long or short ; utricles about 

 as long as the glumes with their awns, \-\ in. long, turgid 

 ovoid or obovoid, trigonous, many-veined, puberulous, sud- 

 denly narrowed into a flat 2-toothed scabrid beak as long as 

 the body or nearly so, pale, not shining ; nut ellipsoid, tri- 

 gonous, pale, style conical at the base, puberulous, stigmas 3. 



Moist low country, 1-3000 ft; rather rare. Matale ; Kurunegala j. 

 Belihul-oya. Fl. Feb., Nov., Dec. 



Also in S. India. 



11. C. baceans, Nee s in Wight, Contrib. 122 (1834). 

 Thw. Enum. 355. C. P. 821. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 722. Boott, Carex, ii. tt 234-239. Bot Mag. t. 7288. 



Rootstock short, stout, horizontal; stem 2-3 ft, stout,. 



