II O Cyperacece. [Carex. 



the top ; rhachis hispidulous ; bracts leafy ; fern, glumes 

 iV ' -io m -> loosely imbricate, ovate or ovate - lanceolate, 

 acuminate, membranous ; utricles one-third longer than the 

 glumes or more, \-^ in. long, straight or decurved, ellipsoid, 

 trigonous, nai rowed into a flattened bifid beak about as long 

 as the body, sides strongly veined, glabrous ; nut ellipsoid, tri- 

 gonous, pale brown, style as long as the nut, stigmas 3, short. 



Upper montane zone, '6ooo ft.' Maturata (Thwaites). Fl., Oct., 

 June. 



Endemic. 



I think that this will prove to be only a mountain form or reduced 

 condition of C. Lindleyana, but a much larger number of specimens and 

 from different localities is requisite to prove this. Dr. Trimen referred 

 it to C. filicina, of which, but for the much larger glumes, it might be 

 regarded as a reduced form. The utricles vary in different and even in 

 the same individuals, from straight with a tumid body suddenly con- 

 tracted into the beak, as in C. Lindleyana, to curved with a narrower 

 body passing gradually into the beak, as in the Ceylon C.filicina. The 

 Ceylon plant included by Clarke under var. (?) 8 of C. filicina is certainly 

 C. zeylanica. — J. D. H. 



15. C. filicina, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 123 (1834). 

 Boott, Carex, iii. 105. C. cruciata, Vahl ; Thw. Enum. 355 (part) 

 (non Wahlb.). C. P. 820 (part). 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 717. Boott, Carex, t. 311. 



Rootstock short, hard ; stem 1-3 ft., stout or slender, 

 trigonous, angles smooth, leafy upwards ; 1. shorter than the 

 infl., ensiform, up to § in. broad, or narrowly linear, finely 

 acuminate, softly coriaceous, margins smooth or scaberulous, 

 lower sheaths pale; infl. 10-16 in., rhachis slender, peduncles 

 bearing triangular compound (bipinnate) spikes of horizontally 

 spreading spikelets, peduncles, branches, and branchlets fili- 

 form; bracts leafy, lower shorter than the infl.; spikelets \-h in., 

 pale brown, not shining, mostly with concolourous male tips ; 

 rhachilla exposed, very slender; fern, glumes distant, minute, 

 Yj- in. long, ovate, acute, spreading ; utricles much longer than 

 the glumes, -J-y in. long, narrowly ellipsoid, or lanceolate, 

 strongly decurved, gradually narrowed into a beak as long as 

 the body, trigonous, strongly veined, smooth ; nut ellipsoid, 

 trigonous, style long, stigmas 3, rather long. 



Lower montane zone in shady places; common. Elk Plains, 6500 ft. 

 (Pearson). Fl. June. 



Also in Nilgiri Hills, China, and Java. 



Differs from C. Lindleyana in the minute fern, glumes and narrow 

 utricle. 



16. C. maculata, Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 128 (1846). 

 Boott, Carex, i. 9. Thw. Enum. 355. C. P. 2630. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 735. Boott, 1. c. t. 26. 



Rootstock shortly creeping, root-fibres tortuous ; stems 



