700 cLxiii. CTPERACE^. (C.B.Clarke.) [Carex. 



Subgenus II. Etjcaeex. Style 3-fid. 



Sect. 4. Sara. Stem with 1 spike, fem. at base {0. rara, &c.) sp. 34-39 

 Sect. 5. Indices. Terminal spike fem. at base, male at top ; 

 or, when apikes very numerous many male at top, ter- 

 minal spike sometimes wholly male. 



* Subscapose, basal leaves long (C. cyrtostachys, &c.). . sp. 40-42 

 ** Spikes short, very numerous (0. cruciata, &c.) . . . sp. 43-66 



*** Spikes long-cylindric. Peduncles mostly solitary (C. 



Mi/osurut, &e.) sp. 67-73 



**** Spikes long-cylindric. Peduncles often several from 

 each lower sheath. Terminal spike sometimes wholly 



male {C. poli/cepkala, &c.) sp. 74-84 



»*«*# Species not easily placed in any one of the preceding 4 

 subsections (C curticeps, C. speciosa, C. fragilis, 



&c.) sp. 85-91 



Sect. 6. Atrafte. Terminal spike male at base fem. at top (C. 



atrata, &c.) . . . sp. 92-98 



Sect. 7. Propri<e. Terminal spike wholly male (in the first 

 group occasionally fem. at top). Spikes not very numerous, 

 occasionally up to 12. 



* Utricle glabrous, beak short . . i sp. 99-105 



** Utricle glabrous, beak long (C. japonica, &c.) . . . . sp. 106-125 



*** Utricle hairy or minutely setulose (0. hvrtella, &c.) . . sp. 126-142 



Subgenus I. Vi&nea. (Genus) Beauv. in Lestib. Essai Cyp. 22. Styles 

 2-fid ; in G. stenophylla rarely 3-fid. 



[N.B. — In Subgen. Eucarex, in the Indian speeips, 2-fid styles occur in 2 or 3 

 species in the upper part of the spike, or in poorly-developed spikelets.] 



Sect. 1. MuElCATii. Terminal spike (and usually some or many of the others) 

 fpm. at base male at top. [Spikelets in C. flnviatiiis all or mostly l-sexual, 

 moncecious or dicecious.] 



* Spikes short, ovoid or oblong, sessile or nearly so; infl. a dense or interrupted 

 compound spike. [The series of species proceeds from the dense to the more 

 interrupted.] 



1. C. Incurva, Lighif. Fl. Scot. ii. 544, t. 24, fig. 1 ; rhizome descend- 

 ing, stems short, spites ovoid androgynous male at top forming one ovoid 

 compound spike, glumes brown slightly scarious-edged, style 2-fid, utricle 

 ellipsoid-acuminate inflated thin plicate scarcely nerved, beak short 

 minutely scabrous on margins. Schlc. Riedgr. i. 27, t. Hh. fig. 95; Kunth 

 Enum. ii. 375 ; Seichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 4, 1. 199, fig. 533 ; Boott Carex, 

 iv. 210 ; Boeck. in Lir^nma, xxxix. 48. 0. junoifolia, AUioni Fl. Pedem. ii. 

 264, t. 92, fig. 4 (not of Schh.). Tignea incurva, Beichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 

 56. 



N. W. Himalaya, from Kunawur and Kashmir to the Karakorum, alt. 11-15,500 

 ft., Thomson, &c. — Dibikib. Mountain and cold regions. 



Stems up to 6 in. (in India), often several clustered on top of ascending rhizome. 

 Leaves sometimes as long as stem, narrow, often (when dry) incurved sometimes 

 flat. I«^. about i in. diam.; lowest bract ^ in. Olumes ohtnse, margins shining, 

 yellowish, not broadly white scarioua. Utricle rather longer than glume, larger than 

 nut, withering with folds on it ; beak shortly 2-fid, hyaline ultimately at top. JVttt 

 f utricle, plano-convex, obtuse, shining-chestnut. Style J nut, branches long exsert. 



2. C. Stenophylla, Wahlenb. in Kong. Vet. Akad.Mandl. Stochh. [1803] 

 142 ; rhizome descending, stems short, spikes ovoid androgynous male at top 

 forming one ovoid or oblong compound spike, glumes strongly sbarious- 



