698 CLXxli. CTPERACBJ]. (C. B. Clarke.) IXohresia 



Sect. 3. EuKOBEESiA. Spike on each stem 1, linear oblong or ovate, 

 compound snbpaniculate, dense or interrupted at base (but smaller simple 

 spikes occur iu most species occasionally). Lower spikelets bisexual except 

 in G. uncinoides. Style 3-fid. — Trilepis, JVees in Jldinb. N. Fhil. Juurn. 

 xvii. 267 (as to type species). 



14. BL. Royleana; Boeck. in Linneea, xxxix. 8 ; stems somewhat stout, 

 leaves linear flat when dried, spikelets mediutp-sized purple-green or 

 ferruginous-brown, style 3-fid, nut ellipsoid attenuated into beak. K. 

 stenocarpa, O. B. Clarke in Jowrn. lAnn. 8oc. xx. 380. K. sobcBnoides, 

 Senders. Tarhand, 339 {not of Boeck.). Trilepis Eoyleana, Nees in Edinh. 

 N. Phil. Journ. xvii. 267 and in. Wight Contrib. 119 ; Kunth Enwm. ii. 

 535 ; Strachey Oat. PI. Kumaon, 73. Blyna stenocarpa, Karel.Sf Kiril. in 

 Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. xv. (1842), 526. 



Alpike Himalaya, alt. 10-16,000 ft. ; from W. Tibet, Thomson, to Sikkim, 

 J. D. S"., frequent. — Distbib. North Cabnl, Central Asia. 



Stem in Eoyle's specimens scarcely 4 in., in Thomson's 2 ft. Leaves sometimes 

 as long as stem, often very much shorter, very variable in width (I'^-J in.). SpiTces 

 (in Boyle's) f by 4 in. ; in Thomson's up to 2^ in., panicled, branches subt-Teot 

 with many spikelets, ferruginous brown. Lower spikelets \ in., often 3-4 fld. JV«« 

 ^'j in. — The large series of dried examples appears to uniie Boyle's (the type) with 

 the fine collections of Thomson. Closely allied to the English K. caricina, Willd., 

 but has, in general, much larger brighter spikes. 



15. K. uncinoides, G-B. Glarhe; robust, infl. oblong dense compound 

 (a second panicle on remote long peduncle occasionally added), spikes 

 in large part 1-aexual, lower spikelets fern. 1-nutted; fern, glume long 

 ntricuiate deeply split down, style 3-fid, nut oblong fine brown, style-base 

 linear. Carex uncinoides, Boott Carex,i. 8, t. 23 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 

 109.— Triticoides, Griff. Bin. Notes, 140. 



Sikkim ; alt. 10-16,000 ft., J. S. H., &c. Bhotan; Griffith.— Disibib. 

 Tibet. 



Glabrous. Shizome 3 in. by ^ in. diam., woody, densely scarred. Stems 1-2 ft., 

 striate. Leaves sub-basal, very much shorter than stem. Infl. 3 by f in., straw- 

 yellow, somewhat interrupted at base. Glume to fem. spikelet f in. by -^'^ in., 

 brown, delicately striate, microscopically pubero-ciliatc, mouth whitened sballowly 

 lacerate on one side split down below the top of nut sometimes even in young state 

 nearly to base of nut. Budiment of the spicula exsert out of mouth of utricular 

 glume. — Boott shows the utricle nearly complete j the margins of the slit fold over 

 as in several other Kobresia, and escaped his artist's microscopic power. It is a 

 tjpinal Kobresia very like Royleana (except the linear style-base) ; it hardly differs 

 from Elyna koltanica, Kegel (Descr. PI. fasc. 8. 23) except in its larger size. 



Sect 4. Hemicakbx (Genus), Benth. in Oen. PI. iii. 1072 {partly). 

 Spikes loosely panicled ; lowest bract long, leaf-like. Style 3-fid. 



16. IL. laxa) Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 6 ; stems 8-24 in. ratter slender, 

 spikes 1- or 2-Bexual (lowest spikelet fem.), style 3-fid, nut narrow oblong 

 apiculate scarcely beaked. K. pseudo-laxa, G. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xz. 381. Cobresia laxa, Nees in Wight Contrib. 119. Blyna? laxa, 

 Kunth JEnum. ii. 534. Hemicarex laxa, Benth. Gen. PI. iii. 1072 ; G. B. 

 Clarke I. c. 385, t. 30. Garex impunctata, Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. (1876), 343 

 (the Himal. plant). 



Alpine Himalaya, alt. 6500-12,000 ft. ; from N.W. Kashhie, Giles, to 

 Sikkim, J. D. H. 



