710 OLXsii. CTPERACEa:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



27. C. fucata, £ooft ms. ; spikes dense blackish, styles 2-fid exsert 

 about I length of utricle, utricle nerveless, otherwise nearly as 0. 

 notha. 



SIKKIM ; Lachen, alt. 9-12,000 ft., J. D. S. 



Lowest hract far overtopping infl. Spikes much more densely packed, and thicker 

 tlian in C. notha ; glumes rather longer, bbick with a linear green mark on back. 

 Lowest spike 3-10 in. distant in some examples. 



28. C. rubro-brunnea, O. B. Clarke; spikes 4-^ close together 

 nearly sessile, styles 2-fid persistent very long red-brown, utricle ellipsoid 

 plane-convex very slenderly 3-5-nerved or nerveless minutely glandular 

 narrowed suddenly into a short linear beak. 0. heterolepis, Boott in Perry 

 Exped. Japan, ii. 327, not of Bunge. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 2-6000 ft., very common, 0. B. Clarice. Mcnetpoob, 

 Watt. — DiSTBiB. Cbina, Japan. 



Glabrous. JRhizome woody, short. Stems clustered, 1—2 ft. Leaves numerous, 

 often as long as culm, scarcely i in. bro»d. Spikes 2-3 by 5— ^ in., brown-red, 

 often comose by long persiateut styles; male spike paler ; lowest spike rarely 1 in. 

 distant ; lowest bract mncli overtopping inflorescence. Fern, glumes ovate-triangular, 

 mnticous or nearly so, rich brown with yellow keel. Utricle very nearly as of C. 

 fucata (or C. notha), but exsert part of style-branches much longer than utricle. 



29. C. Prescottiana, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 286, & ia Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 135, & Carex, i. 45, t. 115 [excl. Sawaii plant) ; spikes 3-6 

 lower peduncled 4-6 in. long slender, styles 2-fid, utricle small compressed 

 ovoid slightly nervose smooth eglandular beakless. C. producta, Boott in 

 Herh. Sook. C. teres ? partly, Boott Carex, i. 62, 1. 167 (lower utricle only). 

 —Carex, Wall. Gat. 3386. 



Nepal, Watlich. • Khasia Hiils, alt. 4500 ft. j Mjrungand Nunklow, J.D. S. 

 — DiSTBiB. Japan. 



Glabrous. Stems 1^2} ft. Leaves nearly as long as stem, up to J in. broad. 

 Lowest syijte 1-5 in. distant, peduncle J-2 in. ; lowest bract equalling infl., not 

 sheathing ; terminal spike 2^ in. by \ in., male, with a short second male spike often 

 added. Fem. spikes nodding, wavy, i in. broad, yellow brown in fruit. Pem. glumes 

 about as long as utricles with a short excurrent tip or obtuse. Utricle s< arcely 

 T^ in., slightly inflated, irregularly 3-5-nerved on each face, with a very few scattered 

 sunk obscure glands, suddenly narrowed at top to a small entire mouth, hardly 

 microscopically a beak. — Tery near C. prtslonga, but the utricles are smaller, less 

 nerved, without linear beak ; and in all the specimens seen the terminal spike is 

 mholly male.— In his " Carex " 1. 62, t. 167 (and herbarium), Boott mixed this with 

 C. sandwicensis, Boeck. (C. Prescottiana, S. Mann) from the Sandwich Isles of 

 which the utricle differs materially. I think it probable that C. Prescottiana, Boott. 

 was C. heterolepis, Bunge, Euum. PI. Chin. Var. [1831] 69 (not of Boott) ; for 

 Bunge says his C. heterolepis resembled C. pendula, but had a bifid style. 



30. C. caespititia, Nees in Wight Contrib. 127 ; spikes 4-10 lowest 

 subsessile or erect on a short peduncle cylindric dense rigid, styles 2-fid, 

 utricle ovoid compressed irregularly few-nerved smooth eglandular sud- 

 denly narrowed into a minute entire beak. Kunth Enum. v. 2 p 412 • 

 Boott Carex, iv. 133, t. 428, fig. 3 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 437.— Carex', 



W dtl, \jOttt ooaOt 



Syihet, Wallich, 0. S. Clarice. 



Glabrous, 2 ft. high, habit of C. rigida, Gooden., but with a most irregular infl 

 lerminal male spike sometimes 4 in. usually 0-2 in. above the next, 2 in. long, 



