712 OLxxii. orPEBACE^. (0. B. Clarke.) lOarex. 



minate glabrous striate, ripe deflexed with seta protruded. Schh. Biedgr. 

 32, t. Ssss, flg. 110; Kunth Enum. ii. 424; Beiclib. Ic. Fl. Germ. -mi. 

 3, t. 196; BooU Carex, iv. 174, t. 589; Boeck. in Linnma, xxxix. 32. 

 Crnoinia microgloohiu, Spreng. Syst. in. 830 ; 0. B. Clarice in Journ. Linn. 

 8oc. XX. 401. U. enropsa, /. Gai/ in Flora [1827] 28. Leptolepia tibetica, 

 Boeck. Gyp. Nov. i. 31 {"partly, i. e. Schlagintweit, n. 6450). 



N.W. Himalaya and W. Tibet, alt. 11-15,000 ft. ; from the Karakornra, 

 Thomsun, to Kuuawur, Jacquemont, frequent. — Uistbib. N. Europe, Asia, Green- 

 land. 



Glabrous. ^Wzome slender, very short. Stems 6-12 in., slender, ieraes scarcely 

 i length of steins, setaceous. Spike pale brown, in flower hardly -^ in. broad. 

 Fein, glumes ovate, obtuse, obscurely nerved, shorter than utricle. Vtricle about 

 ^ in. (includ. exsert rigid seta often more than i in.) ; beak terete, mouth entire. 

 Nut oblong-ellipsoid, brown, about i utricle.— In iruit tlie seta hardens into a- 

 straight smooth yellow linear cone filling the mouth of the utricle; at its apex is 

 often a curved point articulated which sometimes is a rudimentary male fl. — Uncinia 

 difiers from Carex only by the hoolied end of the seta, but the hook is as much de- 

 veloped in C. microglochin as it is in U. Kingii ; and the only reason for not putting 

 0. microglochin into Uncinia is that the latter genus is very nearly confined to the 

 S. Hemisphere. 



35. C. parva, Nees in Wight Oontrib. 120; spike ^-f in., style- 

 branches 3, utricles lanceolate acuminate long-beaked glabrous striate, 

 ripe deflexed with seta included. Kunth Enum. ii. 419; Boott Carex, i. 66, 

 t. 418 ; Boeck. in lAnnsea, xxxix. 38. C. macrorrhyncha, Karel. et Kiril. 

 in Bull. Soc. Mosc. iii. [1842] 521. 



Himalaya, alt. 11-12,000 ft., from Kashmib (Deosai), Winterhottom, to Sikkim 

 (Lachen), J. D. H. — Bistbib. Central Asia. 



Kesembles C. microglochin, but stouter in all its parts. Spike brown or chestnut. 

 'Fern, glumes ovate, acute, lower aristate, lowest empty sometimes 4 in. (a bract). 

 Utricle usually i in. and more (much like that of C. microglochin reckoning in the 

 seta) ; beak slender terete with oblique subentire mouth. Seta sometimes carrying 

 a rudimentary minutely hairy glume, but included. 



36. C. linearis, Boott Carex, i. 51, t. 136; spike 2-3 in. linear, style- 

 branches 3, utricle oblong complete glabrous nerveless beak linear-conic 

 as long as nut with a slit on posticous face extending f length of beak. 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 36. 0. Eseubeokii, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 

 285, & in Trans. Linn. 8oc. xx. 133 (mainly, not of Nees). 0. elynoides, /. 

 Gay ms. Hemioarex sp., Benth. in Gen. PL iii. 1072. H. trinervis, G. B. 

 Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 382, chiefly (.not Kobresicd trinervis, Boeck.). 

 Uncinia nepalensis, Nees ms. 



Himalaya, alt. 11-14,000 ft. ; from Kashmib, Levinge, to Sikkim (Lachen), 

 /, D. H. 



Glabrous. Shizome short, woody. Stenin densely tufted, clothed at base with 

 testaceous or subcastaneous sheaths becoming torn and fiinbrillate ; stems ultimately 

 1-2 ft., in flower often only a few inches. Leaves in flower often 2 or 3 in., sub-, 

 sequently 1 ft,, setaceous. Spike nearly always bisexual, J in. broad, loose at base. 

 Fem. glumes elliptic-oblong, greenish then pale brown, obtuse, lower distant aristate 

 bract-like. TJiriole i in. long, thin, passing into the beak. Nut filling utricle, 

 exactly oblong, trigonous, pale brown, one angle pressing agaiust posticous face of 

 utricle.' — Confounded by Boott originally with 0. Esenbeckii (i. e. Koiresia trinervis, 

 Boeck.), and by Bentham and myself. Boott's figure is correct, but in his Herb, 

 lie has Kohresia trinernis still partly mixed, nor has he perhaps discussed the 

 synonymy quite sati^:facto^ily, Host of the material is easily sorted, because K. trinarvis 



