716 CLXxii. crPEKACEj:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex. 



fibres. Infl. 12-20 in. ; lower pednncles often 2-3 iu. cxserfc, bracts usually as long 

 as infl., leaf-like. Spikes in fruit divaricate on the stiff divaricate panicle-branches". 

 Glumes (from middle female flowers) much shorter than utricle, ovate, minutely 

 or not mucronate, .S-1-nerved on back, ferruginous, lineolately marked. Utricle 

 ^'ij in., ferruginous or brown, prominent in fruiting panicle, scarcely inflated, rarely 

 glandular-dotted, quite smooth or minutely scabrous towards neck j ribs about 12, 

 thick; beak usually sparsely seabrou.", with elliptic mouth on one side. Nut fitting 

 pretty closely utricle, ellipsoid, substipitate, pyramidal at top ; style-base scarcely 

 dilated. 



Var. /3 nagporensU ; secondary panicles with subereet branches scarcely 

 p.^ramidal sometimes very slender, ripe utricle scarcely inflated fuscous-green often 

 with black or red dots iu upper half, beak subconic at base 4— | utricle. — Cbota Nag- 

 pore ; alt. 2^000 ft., common from the Kolhan to the summit of Pauasnath. — A 

 great variety of forma is here included, all undoubtedly one species and no one 

 matching C cruoiata, Wahl. typ. One form is large, with the secondary panicles 

 long-peduncled large dense branches in fruit very stout rigid erect ; another has very 

 narrow leaves, panicleB slender the lower with only 5-8 spikes. There is every 

 gradation between. The utricles are sometimes nearly glabrous, sometimes intensely 

 scabrous with large linear-conic points. 



Var. 7 argocarpus ; secondary panicles pyramidal often very dense, ripe utricle 

 glistening white inflated conspicuous. C. bengalensis, Boott Carex, ii. 85 (chiefii/) 

 tt. 240-242 ; Boeok. in Linnaa, xl. 346 {farthj): C. vacua and C. condensata, Boott 

 ms. {partly.) — Abundant iu .India, from the B. Nepal, J. D. R., to Khasia and 

 Assam, Tonkin. — A plant collected by Boott on the Brahmapootra bank, having 

 fuscous-green utricles much less conspicuously ribbed, is supposed a plains form 

 of var. argocarpus. Most of the glistening-white fruits are fuscous in the 

 herbarium. < 



46. C. parvig'luma, C. B. Clarke; leaves very long, Btem short, 

 infl. usually of one pyramidal compound panicle, spikes as of O. cruciata, 

 style 3-fid, utricle globose trigonous many-striate glabrous suddenly 

 narrowed into a linear beak | utricle. 



Assam; Luckimpore, alt. 1500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Glabrous, except panicle-branches. Khittome horizontal, woody. Leaves 2-3 

 ft. by ^ in. Stem including infl. 5-8 in. Infi. 3 by 1^ in., resembling much a 

 single peduncled panicle of C. cruciata ; in one example a small nearly-basal panicle 

 is added. Tern, glume-i exceedingly small, elliptic, aristate. Utricle not inflated, 

 rather larger, and nerves 15-18, slenderer than in C. cruciata, to which it is nearly 

 allied, but differs by the short stem, and very small glumes. 



47. C. condensata, Nees in Wight Contrib. 123 (Royle, n. 83 only, not 

 of Kunth); leaves very long, infl. elongate of distant peduncled oblong 

 panicles, spikes i-| in. clustered ferruginous 3-6-nutted, style 3-fid, utricle 

 narrow-ellipsoid trigonous irregularly ribbed not inflated, beak i length 

 of utricle 2-fid. Boott Carex, ii. 86, tt. 247, 248 ; Duthie in E. T. AtHnsm 

 Oaz. X. 616. C. bengalensis, Boeek. in Linnsea xl. 347 {chiefly). 0. 

 indica, var. condensata, Strachey Cat. PI. Kumaon, 73. 0. indica, iVee« in 

 Wight Contrib. p. 123 {Eoyle n. 85).— Carex, Wall. Cat. 3400 A. 



SiND ; Tinwill. Himalaya, alt. 1-10,000 ft., common ; from Dalhousie to 

 Bhotan. Khasia Hilis, alt. 4 5000 ft., abundant. 



Separated from C. cruciata by the less pyramidal partial panicles, and the 

 utricle, which is smaller with linear-oblong shorter beak, less nerved (often nearly 

 nerveless on the plane face), frequently black- or red-dotted in the upper half. The 

 utricle is more or less scabrous-pilose, but sometimes glabrate. The panicle (when 

 lliy) is always between ciunamomeous and browu. 



