€arex.] Cyperacece. 1 1 1 



tufted, 6-16 in., slender, leafy, trigonous, angles smooth ; 

 il. longer and shorter than the stem, erect, narrowly ensiform, 

 \ in. broad or narrower, acuminate, flat, glaucous, margins 

 smooth, basal sheaths membranous; spikelets 1-1 J in., solitary 

 or rarely 2 in one sheath, lower long-peduncled, erect, 

 cylindric, \ in. diam., almost black, uppermost wholly male; 

 bracts leafy, longer than the infl. ; fern, glumes closely im- 

 bricate, broadly ovate, obtuse or acute, dark brown, keel 

 green ; utricles tV ~tV m -» longer than the glumes, very broadly 

 •ovoid or almost orbicular, strongly dorsally compressed, 

 obscurely trigonous, strongly veined, puberulous or sub- 

 farinose, dark brown, beak o or very short ; nut ellipsoid, 

 trigonous, subacute at both ends, style short, stigmas 3, short. 



Upper montane zone ; rather rare. Adam's Peak (Moon) ; Amba- 

 gamuwa; N. Eliya; Horton Plains. Fl. Feb., March. 



Also in the Khasia and the Nilgiri Hills, and in Australia, Japan,' 

 .and Korea. 



17. C. breviscapa, Clarke in Fl. B. hid. vi. 736 (1894). 



C. Jackiana, var. /3, breviculmis, Thw. Enum. 356. C. P. 3781. . 



Rootstock short, root-fibres wiry; stem 2-6 in., leafy, 

 concealed in the 1. sheaths, the infl. only exposed ; 1. 1-2 ft. 

 by \-\ in. broad, overtopping the infl., erect, narrowly ensi- 

 form, acuminate or caudate, flat, striate, margins smooth or 

 scaberulous, midrib very slender; lower sheaths pale brown; 

 infl. narrow, lower peduncles short with 2-3 spikelets; bracts 

 leafy, lower nearly as long as the leaves; spikelets J-i in., 

 close together, so as to appear fascicled, striate, erect, green, 

 uppermost slender male overtopped by the longer lower fern., 

 rhachilla stout, angular; fern, glumes loosely imbricate, erect, 

 broadly ovate-oblong or nearly orbicular, shortly awned ; 

 utricle erect, y~g m - l° n g> ovoid, trigonous or subterete, many- 

 veined, constricted above the middle, the upper third conical and 

 narrowed into a bifid beak; nut filling the utricle, trigonous, 

 faces convex, narrowed from the swollen middle upwards to 

 -a broad truncate flat top, and downwards to a pyramidal 

 base, pale brown, smooth, polished, style about half as long 

 as the nut, stigmas 3, rather short. 



Moist country in lower montane zone ; very rare. I have seen only 

 the, C. P. specimens collected by Thwaites in Ambagamuwa in 1862. 

 Fl. Sept. 



Endemic. 



A very abnormal species. 



18. C. lig-ulata, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 127 (1834). 



C. breviculmis, Thw. Enum. 356 (non Br.). C. Thwaitesii, Hance in 

 Journ. Bot. v. 235; Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 104. C. P. 2750. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 747. Boott, Carex, i. t. 113. 



