Garex.'] OLXxir. otperaob^. (C. B. Clarke.) 701 



edged, style 2.fid, utricle ellipsoid acuminate ultimately thick crustaceoug 

 blackish obscurely nerved, beak short scabrous on margins. Kunth Enum 

 11. 374; ReiM lo. Fl. Germ. jiii. 5, t. 200, fig. 534; Boott Garex, iv. 200 

 ^^^Mdi^^-.^.' ■S°^P^- *?" -^*«««'». xxxix. p. 50 and in Jbum. Linn. Soc 

 xviu. (1881), 105. junoifolia, Schk. BMgr. i. (1801), 26 and ii. 6, t. 6, 

 hg. 32 («o» Alhoni), 0. glomerata. Host Oram. Ausbr) i. 34, t. 44 (»o« 

 Thunh.). C Hosti, Schh. Bledgr. ii. 7, t. Ii, fig. 32, 0. duriuscula, G. A. 

 Meyer m Mem. Sav. Etrang. Petersh. i. 214, t. 8; Kunth Enum. ii. 374 

 0. arctica, BeinM. ; Fries Novit. Fl. Buec. Mant. iii. 135 ; Anderss Guv 

 Scand. 70, t. 3, fig. 13. 0. DeinboUiana, J. Gay in Ann. 8c. Nat. ser 2 

 XI. 183. Vignea- stenophylla, Beiohb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 56 Kobresia 

 hyalinolepis, Boech. Gyp. Nov. i. 39. Elyna capillifolia. Benders. Yarkand 

 339.— Carex sp. Griff. Bin. Notes, 239, nn. 310, 311. 



N. W. Himalaya, and W. Tibet from Piti and Kashmir to the Karakorum, alt 

 8-14,000 ft. — DisTBiB. Mountain and cold NorthiTn regions. 



Very near 0. incwrva, Lightf. ; in good fruit distinguished therefrom by black 

 thick-walled utricle nearly filled by nut, in a younger -stiite often distinguishable bv 

 prominent glistening white edge of glumes. But there are examples referred to C 

 stenophylla, Wahl. by Boott that are here placed under 0. incuna, Lightf. or C 

 divisa, Hudson. Many examples of 0. tUnophylla are referred in herbaria to Kobresia 

 (which is separated by the 3-fid style, but a 3-fid style occurs in Oarex stenophylla ) 

 —In a Himalayan example (Lance n. 285 in Herb. Kew) the ripe fruiting spikes are 

 elongate, the lowest spike i inch distant, but the shining margins of glume and the 

 black crustaceous nuts are exactly as in C. stenophylla. The characters taken from 

 roughness of stem, breadth and incurving of leaves, &c., mentioned carefully by 

 European authors, were found not to be valid by Boott. 



3. C. divlsa, Huds. Fl. Angl. 348 ; rhizome horizontal, spikes ovoid 

 androgynous male at top forming one ovoid or oblong or interrupted com- 

 pound spike, glumes brown, style 2-fld, utricle ovoid acuminate stout 

 moderately nerved, beak short scabrous on margins. Good, in Trans. Linn. 

 8oc. ii. 157, t. 19, fig. 2 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 372 ; Seinhb. Ic. Fl. Germ, viii! 

 7,_t. 205, fig, 645; Boott Garex, iv. 186 and Ic. Ined. 631; Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxxix. 55 and in Journ. Linn. 8oc. xviii. 105. C. rivularia Schk. 

 Biedgr. i. 30, t. Oc. fig. 87. 0. austriica, Schk. I. c. ii. 10, t. Qqq, fig. 157, 

 C. Bertolonii, Schk. I. c. ii. 5, t. D tig. 18 and t. Errr, fig. 202. C. coacta' 

 Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. (1846), 285 and in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 133! 

 0. curaica, var. y coarota, Boott Garex iv. 204. C. ouraica, Boiss. Fl Orient 

 iv. 402. 



W. Himalaya {Boott.) — Distbib. Cabul to Britain. 



Stems 1-2 ft., or in some Cabul examples 3-6 in. Leaves often J stem, narrow 

 margins usually incurved when dry. Infi. 2 by J in,, interrupted at base (in well, 

 developed examples). Lowest bract usually J incli, but sometimes overtopping infl. 

 Fern, glumes ovate, hardly mucronate, brown, scarious margin narrow. Utricle 

 greenish or yellowish, ultimately brown, somewhat thickened ; nerves 5-7 on plane 

 face, slender, 11-13 on convex face rather stronger; beak shortly bifid. — Much 

 stouter than C. incurva and 0. stenophylla, and utricles longer. Resembles gener- 

 ally C. foliosa and 0. nubigena, Don; the plane face of the utricle is in G.foUosa 

 hardly striate at all ; in C. nubigena strongly multistriate ; the utricle of C. divisa 

 comes between the two. divisa, Huds. can generally be distinguished by its 

 shorter bracts, browner glumes, and more creeping rhizome. — The Kuram Valley 

 examples of Aitchison were collected [alt. 10,000 ft.] just outside the then frontier, 

 and the Kashmir examples of Jacqnemont cited by Boott are referred here to 0. 

 vulpinaris, Nees, hut C. divisa, Huds. is almost certain to occur within British 

 India. 



