704 CLXxii. CTPBRACE^. (G. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



many-tierved without glands acuminated into a short rough-edged beak. 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxrix. 93. 



tJpPEE BuKUA ; Wullaboom in Hookhoom, (Jrt^tft {Kem Distrib. n. 6103). — 

 DiSTBiB. China, Japan. 



Rliizome woody. Sterna 1-2 ft. Infl. 4r-6 by ^-f in., dense, of 40-70 spikes ; 

 lowest bract scarcely 1 in. Spikes nearly J in., straw-colrd. Utricle (larger than 

 in Thomsoni) plane-convex ; nerves 8 on the plane, 12 on the convex face ; beak 

 minutely scabrous on edges. — ^"^ery near C. Thomsoni) but much less rigid ; tiie infl. 

 in fruit resembles that of Setaria italica. It is sometimes completely dioecious ; in 

 other cases the inil. has male spikes in the middle fern, at both ends (or at top only ) 

 as occurs in C. disticha. 



10. C> teretiuscula, Good, in Trans. lAnn. Soe. ii. 163 {excl. tab. 

 cited) ; stems 2 ft. scubrous at top, leaves nearly as long as stems narrow, 

 spikes ovoid or ellipsoid androgynous male at top green variegated brown 

 forming a linear oblong interrupted compound spike, style 2-ad, utricle 

 small stalked slightly spongy ovoid conical-beaked gibbous few-nerved 

 on convex face, margins of beak serrate snbhyaline almost winged. Schk. 

 Riedgr. i. 30, tt. D. 19, & T. 69 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 390; Boeck. in lAnnxa, 

 xxxix. 104. C. teretiuscula, var. /3 major, Boott Carex, iv. 145, t. 466. 

 C. mitis, Boeck. I. c. 104. 



Kashmir, alt. 6-70C0 ft., Thomson. Bhotan, Griffith, n. 2663 (Keto Distrib. 

 n. 61u4). — Distrib. Cooler N. Hemisphere. 



Griffith's example shows no root, but is in ripe fruit; the utricle has a ridge on 

 the nerveless face and about 4 nerves on the middle of the turgid gibbons face, 

 exactly as in European C teretiuscula. Thomson's Kashmir plant has numerous 

 stems closely placed on an intricately branched short weak rhizome; the young 

 utricles are stalked and show the subalate miir^ins of the beak. 1 put these two 

 plants together, for they must be very closely allied ; Mr. J. G. Baker says that 

 neither of them matches exactly C. teretiuscula. 



** Spikes linear-cylindric, peduncled, inflorescence loose. 



11. C. long'lpes, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 329, & Frodr. 43 ; 

 infl. long very lax, lowest peduncle solitary usually 1-spiked long, feiii. 

 glumes mucronate some aristate, style 2-fid, utricles green or fully ripe 

 yellowish. JVees in Wight Contrih. 124; Kunth Enum. ii. 418; Drejer 

 Symb. Caric. 24, t. 10 ; Boott Carex, iv. 190, Ic. Ined. t. 644 ; Boeck. in 

 Linnxa, xl. 376 {not of Thwaites). —Garex, Wall. Cat. 3388. 



Nepal, Sikkim, and Khasia, alt. 4r-12,000 ft., common. — Distrib. Cliina. 



Uhizome short, woody, divided. Stems 6-24 in., slender. Leaves f the stem, 

 ^ in. broad. Cauliue sheatlis distant, lowest often near base of stem. Lowest 

 peduncle usually exsert 2-8 in. (but see var. 7), almost filiform, nodding. Spikes 

 3-10 on each stem, 1-3 in., green or yellowish, usually solitary or lowest with 1 or 2 

 smaller near base. Male glumes obtuse with a minute rough excurrent mucro ; 

 anthers submuticous. Fern, glumes ovate, acuminate, mucro produced into a rouKh 

 bristle often overtopping utricle. Utricles much flattened, ovoid or ellipsoid, sud- 

 denly narrowed into a long beak, distinctly 7-9-nerved on each face, glabrous, or 

 scabrous on margin sometimes also on two marginal nerves (see var. j3) ; beak 

 narrowly oblong, deeply bifid, li>bes lanceolate erect, scabrous or rarely glabrous on 

 margins. iVitf much flattened, f utricle (with beak), ovoid, obtuse, dark brown; 

 style little thickened, extert branches shorter than utricle. 



Var. P nepalensis, Boott Carex, iv. 190; utricles scabrous-pilose over both faces. 

 C. macrolepis, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 329, & Frodr. 42 (710* of DC). C. 

 nepalensis, Spreng, Syst. iii. 811 ; Nees in Wight Contrib. 125 ; Drejer Symb. 



