714 CLXxii. CTPERACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Garex. 



* Snbscapose, basal leaves long, cauline leaves and bracts very short. 



40. C. cjrrtostachys, Brongn. in Bot. Voy. Goquille 152, t. 25 ; infl. 

 componnd, spikes linear-oblong lax pale, style 3-fid, utricle ellipsoid- 

 trigonous many-nerved minutely hairy, beak scarcely ^ utricle. Kuntli 

 JEnum. ii. 513; Moritzi Verz. Zoll. PJi. 98; Boott Gwrex, ii. 103, t. 310; 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 327. — Carex, Wall. Gat. 3383. 



PENANff ; Wallich. Peeak ; alt. 3500 ft. King's Collector, Singapobe, 

 Sidley. — Disteib. Malaya, China. 



Glairous, except utricle. Rhizome horizontal, thick. Leaves many, subradical, 

 1-2 ft. by ^-J in., flat, tough, many-nerved. Scapes numerous, 4-9 in., with slieaths 

 and peduncles nearly throughout their length ; bracts 0-^ in., linear ; peduncles 

 exsert 0-1 in., 1-5-spiked. Spikes | by J-J in. Fern, glumes ovate, acute, scarcely 

 mucronate, shorter than utricle. Utricle | in. ; beak scarcely notched. IStyle with 

 its 3 branches short, style-base linear. Sut "distorted by depressions," Boott, 

 (rynophore small yellow, there are two main lateral excavated patches. (The only 

 Indian species that has a strongly excavated-distorted nut.) 



41. C. Kelferl, Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 365 ; basal leaves long up to 1 

 in. broad, scape with 4r-6 distant peduncles each carrying one dense ovoid- 

 cylindric pale head, infl. minutely hairy, style 3-fld, utricle ovoid trique- 

 trous beak linear f utricle. 



Tenasserim ; Heifer {Kern Distril. 6111, 2). 



Rhizome stout, heaves 20 in., flat, sub 3-nerved. Scape 10-14 in. ; bracts 2-3 

 by i in., sublanceolate ; peduncles exsert, 4-1 in., minutely hairy. Spikes ^-\ in., 

 oblong or (frniting) ovoid, 4-1-nutted, ferruginous. Fem. ghimes ovate, bristle 

 exceeding beak of utricle. Utricle i in. and upwards, pyramidal at both ends, 

 slenderly many-nerved, minutely hairy ; beak slender, mouth very small, base 

 minutely bulbous to hold slightly bulbous style-base. — An unmistakable species. 



42. C. (I) pandanophylla, C. B. Glarke ; leaves long broad, spikes 

 in numerous fascicles on branches of scape female at base male at top, 

 glumes elliptic obtuse minutely scabrous-hairy long cuspidate. Scleria 

 pandanophylla, Kurz ms. 



PEau ; Yomah, Karz. 



Very stout. Rhizome oblique, woody. Leaves subradical many, 1-2 ft. by 1-lJ 

 in., flat, striated, glabrous, as though petioled, petiole dilated at base. Scape 

 stout, 9 in., branches 2 -3 in., minutely hairy. Spihes-^—^ by ^^ in.; bracteoles ^ in. 

 setaceous. Glumes closely imbricated on all sides, chestuut-colrd. with narrow 

 white margin. — Very young ; at Calcutta where the material is little more advanced, 

 the minute " flowers " in the lower axils of a spike appeared utricular j but they 

 might represent the youngest stage of » Mapanioid inflorescence; the leaves are 

 altogether like those of Mapania. 



** Spikes short, very numerous (not scapose). 



43. C. Indlca, Linn. Mant. 574 ; leaves subbasal very long, infl. elon- 

 gate, of distant peduucled pyramidal compound panicles, young spikes 

 \-% in. linear pale long-bracteoled, glumes aristate, style 3-fid[, utricle sub- 

 globose trigonous many-striate glabrous suddenly contracted into an 

 oblong-linear beak. Boott Ourex, li. 87, tt. 250, 252-254 ; Boeok. in Linnsea, 

 xl. 347 {excl. Wallich n. 3420, not Kunth, or Nees.) 0. Moritzii, Stead, in 

 Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 60; Boeck. in Linnsea, xl. 350. 0. longiaristata, 

 Boott ms. ; Kurz in Joum. Asiat. Boc. Beng. xlv. (pars. 2), 160. 0. 

 tissilis, Booit ms. 



Eastern Peninsula; from Sikkim TEKAi(Dulkajhar) C. B. Clarice, & Cachab, 



