Carex.] clxxii. cTPEEA.OEiE. (0. B, Clarke.) 709 



xiv. 331, & Prodr. 43 {not of Mich.). 0, platycavpa, Hochst. Steud. Syn. 

 Oyp. p. 214.— Garex, Wall. Gat. 3394 (type sheet), 3395 A, partli/. 



Himalaya, alt. 4-7000 ft., from Qurwhal to Bhotan, frequent. Khasia Hiils, 

 alt. 2-6000 ft., and Patkot Mts., Griffith. Assam j Luokimpore at 300 ft. 

 Tenasskeim, alt. 3500 ft. Paohmari, Pulneys, NiiaHiBis, and Ceylon, alt. 

 4-6000 ft. — DiSTEiB. Malaya, Japan. 



Glabrous. BMzome woody, short. Stems closely tufted, 1-2^ ft., triquetrou'i. 

 Leaves often as long as stem, J in. wide. Infl. usually 4-6 in., lowest spike 1-2 in. 

 distant; lowest bract usually far overtopping the infl., but sometimes shorter than 

 it, not sheathing. Fern, spikes 1-2 in. (sometimes longer) by i in., in fruit appear- 

 ing purple with green linear marks (glumes) ; male spike 1-2 in., rather slender lax, 

 pale feriviginous. Fern, glumes narrow, rather lonfier than utricle, green 3-nerTod 

 on back, sides pale ferruginous or scarious. Utricle about ^V in., usually dark 

 purple with a green margin, densely granular with red-purple glands throughout ; 

 mouth of beak entire. — The large quantity oE this oomraon species now to hand 

 leaves hardly any absolute characters to distinguish It from the two following. In 

 some, the bracts are slender, shorter than the iufl. ; in othera, the beak of the utricle 

 has a distinct linear prolongation nearly as in the very close C Arnottiana. The 

 colour of the plant glumes and spikes varies much from the type ; the Ceylon 

 examples have the spikes a rich brown (as in 0. Arnottiana). The most general 

 characters for C. phacota appear to be the rough exeurrent green tip of the fern. 

 glume with the utricle dense with glands to its base. 



24. C. pruinosa, Soott in Proa. Linn. Soc. i. 255; Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XX. 131, & Carex, i. 65, t. 174 ; spikes broader laxer than in O. phacota, 

 utricle larger i in. long, obscurely 3-5-nerved ; otherwise as 0. phacota, 

 of which Boeokeler esteems it a form. 



East Bengal, Griffith {Kew Distrib. n. 6106). Khasia Hills, alt. 4200 ft., 

 C. B. Clarke. — Uisteib. Java. 



Boott (Carex, iv. 198, Ic. Ined. 667) has brought here hSs ,C. picta from Japan, 

 which has nerveless utricles. 



25. C. Arnottiana, Nees ms. ; Drejer Symb. Caricol. 16, t. 5 ; ex- 

 current tip of glume smooth, utricle glandular in its upper half, beak short 

 triangular with a minute linear prolongation, otherwise as G. phacota. 

 Vuott Carex, iv. 178, Ic. Ined. 607 (not in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 129) ; Thw. 

 Enum. 356 ; JBoeck. in Linnsea, xl. 435. — 0. sooia, Boott in Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. i. 254, & in Trans. Linn. Soc. I. c. 128. 



Ceylon ; elevated parts of Central Province, WoUher, Tkwaites. 



26. C. notha, Eunth Enum. ii. 421 ; spikes 3-7 lower on slender 

 peduncles linear-cyliudric, fern, glumes obtuse or minutely inuoronate, 

 styles 2- fid shorter than utricle, utricle ellipsoid plane-convex slenderly 

 3--5-nerved minutely glandular narrowed suddenly into a short linear 

 beak. Boott Carex, i. 8, t. 24 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 433. 0. Viotorialis, 

 Nees in Wight Contrih. 126 (style erroneously 3-fid) ; Eunth Snum. ii. 516. 

 0. punctata, Nees I. c. 127 {not of Gaudin). 0. Bentharaiana, Boott in, 

 Royle Eimal. 412. 0. phacota, Drejer Symb. Caricol. 15 {partly). 



Himalaya, alt. 5-11,000 ft., from Chini, Jacquemont, and Gurwhal, Thomson, 

 to Bhotan, Griffith. . 



Mdle spikes 2 in., brown. Lowest bract hardly so long as mfl. Otumes green, 

 obscurely 3-nerved on back, often quite muticous ; if a small mucro it is quite unlike 

 C. phacota, in which the whole green width of the glume is produced as an oblong- 

 linear flat tip. Utricle exceeding the glume about J^ in., with round or linear, 

 yellow or brown, scattered sunk glands ; beak slightly notched, minutely granular.— 

 Otherwise as 0. phacota. 



