1 08 Cyperacece. [Carex. 



trigonous, leafing upwards, angles smooth; 1. longer and 

 shorter than the stem, | in. broad or narrower, tip long, 

 filiform, rather softly coriaceous, margins smooth or scaberu- 

 lous, sheaths long, coriaceous; infi. 12-18 in. long, panicled, 

 peduncles stout, bearing simple or compound (bipinnate) 

 spikes of divaricate (when ripe) spikelets ; bracts leafy, over- 

 topping the infl. ; spikelets i|-2 in., stout, mostly contracted 

 and male at the tip, the male portion often as long as the 

 fem., dark brown, rhachilla stout, glabrous ; fern, glumes very 

 broadly ovate or oblong, obtuse, acute, or mucronate ; utricles 

 longer than the glumes, \-\ in. long, ovoid or oblong, obscurely 

 trigonous, suddenly or gradually contracted into a short bifid 

 beak, coriaceous or fleshy, many-veined, glabrous or obscurely 

 scaberulous towards and on the beak, when dry shrivelled, 

 plicate, and many-ribbed; nut very narrowly oblong- or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acutely trigonous, narrowed above into a 

 very short style, and below into a short stipes, dark brown, 

 opaque, stigmas 3, short. 



Montane zone up to 6000 ft.; common. Fl. April-June; utricles red 

 in the larger states. 



Himalaya and Nilgiri Mts., Java, China, Philippine Is. 

 Very variable in the size and texture of the utricle. 



12. C. indica, L. Mant. II. Afip. 574 (1771). 



Boott, Carex, ii. 87. C. bengalensis, Thw. Enum. 355 (non Roxb.). 

 •C. P. 2628. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 714. Boott, Carex, t. 251 (from a Ceylon specimen). 



Rootstock stout, woody, crowned with black fibrous re- 

 mains of l.-sheaths; stem 2-2| ft., stout, trigonous, leafing 

 upwards, angles smooth; 1. longer and shorter than the stem, 

 up to I in. broad, finely acuminate, margins scabrid, lower 

 sheaths compressed ; infl. 12-18 in. long, panicled, peduncles 

 stout or slender, bearing short, simple, or compound (bipinnate) 

 spikes of divaricate (when ripe) spikelets; bracts leafy, lower 

 overtopping the infi.; spikelets many, ^-f in., pale brown, 

 not shining, with a short or long terminal male portion, 

 rhachilla rather stout, pubescent ; fem. glumes very variable, 

 in some specimens |- in., ovate-lanceolate, acute, acuminate, 

 or very shortly awned, in others shorter, broadly oblong, very 

 obtuse, or rounded at the top with a very long or a short 

 slender awn; utricles longer than the glumes, divaricate, 

 T V~i in., turgidly often gibbously ovoid, obscurely trigonous, 

 many-veined, suddenly contracted into a slender, 2-toothed, 

 smooth beak, from J as long to as long as the body; nut 

 broadly ellipsoid, trigonous, pale, obtuse at both ends, style 

 long, base conical, truncate, stigmas 3, short. 



