1 1 2 Cyperacece. \Carex r 



Rootstock short, nodose, stoloniferous, root-fibres wiry; 

 stem \-2\ ft, tufted, rather stout, leafy above, below hard, 

 acutely trigonous, clothed with long brown sheaths, bear- 

 ing very short blades; 1. from above the middle, and as long 

 as the stem or longer, \ in. long or narrower, linear, finely 

 acuminate, tip filiform, flat, thin, midrib very slender, margins 

 and upper surface scaberulous; infl. 6-10 in. long, spikelets 

 1-2 in. by \ in. diam., solitary, peduncles shortly exserted 

 from the sheaths, erect, green, terminal very slender, pale 

 brown, wholly male, rhachilla rather stout, angular; bracts 

 long, leafy, far exceeding the infl. ; fern, glumes ovate or 

 oblong, acuminate or shortly awned, membranous; utricles 

 about one-third longer than the glumes, suberect, \ in. long,, 

 obovoid or ellipsoid, trigonous, narrowed into a bifid beak 

 \-\ the length of the body, coriaceous, densely tomentose, 

 veins obscure; nut ellipsoid, trigonous, pale brown, style 

 shorter than the nut, base swollen, conical, stigmas 3, rather 

 short. 



Montane zone ; rare. Hewaheta ; Maturata ; Haputale. Fl. Sept.- 

 Nov., 



Also in the Himalayas and Nilgiris, and in China and Japan. 



19. C. Jackiana,* Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 260 (1849). 

 Thw. Enum. 356 (excl. var. /3). C. P. 3198. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 735. Boott, Carex, t. 25. 



Rootstock hard, nodose, root-fibres slender; stem 1-2 ft, 

 slender, leafless or nearly so, weak, flexuous, smooth; 1. longer 

 and shorter than the stem, \ in. broad or narrower, acuminate,, 

 narrowed to the base, flat, thin, margins smooth or scaberulous,. 

 lower sheaths brown ; infl. various ; spikelets green, solitary 

 on filiform radical peduncles, sometimes 6 in. long, or 2-4 

 spikelets sessile in the axils of a bract, or solitary spikelets 

 peduncled in the axils of one or two bracts towards the top 

 of the stem, or 2-3 spikelets clustered at the mouth of a 

 terminal bract, terminal spikelet slender, pale brown, wholly 

 male; bracts leafy; spikelets \-\ in., few-fid.; fem. glumes 

 \ in., membranous, broadly ovate or oblong, obtuse, acute or 

 shortly awned, 3-veined ; utricle \-\ in. long, obovoid or 

 ellipsoid, trigonous, substipitate, gradually narrowed into a 

 bifid beak as long as the body or shorter, strongly many- 

 veined, quite smooth and glabrous; nut obovoid, trigonous,, 

 pale brown, stipitate, minutely beaked, style short, stigmas 3, 

 rather long. 



* Commemorates William Jack of the Bengal Medical Service, who 

 collected and described many Malayan plants. Died 1822. 



