Carex.] clxxii. cyperace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 721 



bott ends minutely acabrons hairy, beak scarcely J utricle. Boeok. in 

 lAnruBa, xl. 374; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 406. 



W. Himalaya ; alt. 3000-6000 ft. ; Kunaor, Royle ; Hazara, Steuiart ; Murree , 

 Fleming, Trotter. 



Glabrous (panicle branches minutely scabrous, hardly hairy). Shiaome woody, 

 branched, with several approximate stems. Stems including infl. 8-18 in. Leaves 

 numerous, scarcely i in. broad. Infl. often occupying f the plant ; lower peduncles 

 exsert ; bracts finely caudate, shorter or longer than inflorescence. Spikes i-| in., 

 4-8-nutted, comose from the long red style-branchea. Vem. glumes ovate-triangular, 

 not aristate, much shorter than utricle. Utricle xr"t's ™> narrowed at both end-i, 

 red-marked, obscurely nerved. Nut atipitate, narrowed into the linear persistent 

 style-base.— The exsert part of style-branches is longer than utricle, and longer than 

 as shown in Boott's picture. This species does not seem very closely allied to the S. 

 Indian C. lAndleyana, &c. ; it should perhaps stand next 0. vesiculosa, Boott. 



62. C. rhizomatosa, Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. (1854), 60 

 and S^n. Gyp. 206; leaves shorter than infl. narrow, infl. linear, peduncles 

 distant slender nearly simple, spikes ovoid 1-4-nutted brown in irregular 

 heads, style 3-fid, utricle broadly ellipsoid trigonons scabrous hairy, beak 

 scarcely \ utricle 2-fid. Miq^. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 34S. 0. Onminjiana, 

 Steud. Syn. Gyp. 206 ; Boott Garese, iii. 107, tt. 324, 325 ; Boeck. in Linncea, 

 xl. 367; Vidal Fl. Vase. Filip. 286. C. capitulata, Boott ms. 



Assam; Gowhatty, Booii. Khasia Hills j N. face, alt. 2-3000 ft., frequent, 

 C. B. Clarice. Muneypoob ; Watt. Patkoyb Mts. ; Griffith.— DiaruTB. Tonkin, 

 Java, Philippines. 



Glabrous (except utrioles). SMuome very tough, covered with black fibres of 

 torn sheaths (it grows where the grass is burnt annually). Stems tufted, 6-18 in. 

 Leaves usually 3-6 in. by i in., not caudate. Infl. 6—10 by scarcely f in. ; uppsr 

 bracts about as long as infl. Seada of spikes 1-J in. diam., usually only one on 

 each peduncle, but peduncles often 2 from one sheath. Fem. glume ovate-lanceolate, 

 brown, often mucronate ; male glumes mucronate. Utricle fuscous brown, obscurely 

 8-15-nerved. 



63. C. Kindleyana; Nees in Wight Gontrib. 121 ; leaves subbasal 

 long narrow, infl. elongate lower peduncles distant, partial panicles con- 

 densed oblong brown-green, style 3-fid, utrioles oblong-ellipsoid many- 

 nerved glabrous, beak linear straight deeply bifld J utricle. Kunth Enwm. 

 ii. 512 ; Boeck. in LinncBa, xl. 362. 0. thyrsiflora, Boott Carex, i. 12, t. 34. 

 C. cruciata, Thw. En/wm. 355 (partly). 



NiLaHiEi Hills; alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight, frequent. Ceylon; alt. 5-8000 ft., 

 Thw. (O.P. 3161, &c.) 



Stems l-2j ft Leaves \ in. broad, not overtopping infl., not caudate. Fem. 

 glumes ovate, sometimes shortly mucronate, many-nerved. Utricles not much 

 differing from those of C. cruciata, Wahl., with which Thwaites united it. Partial 

 fianioles 1^ by J in., dense, unlike the pale pyramidal partial panicles of C. cruciata. 



64. C. leucantlia, Arnott ex Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 257, and 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 135, and Carex, i. 10, t. 23 ; leaves very long 

 narrow, infl. elongate depauperated, peduncles few distant very short 

 carrying 1 or 2 small whitish heads, style 3-fid, utrioles broad-ellipsoid 

 trigonous many-nerved hairy not inflated, beak linear f utricle. Thw. 

 Fnum. 355 ; Boeck. in Linnasa, xl. 369. 



South Deccan; Courtallum, WigU. Ceylon; not rare up to 2000 ft. 

 Tlmaites (C.P. 2631, &c.). 



Stems 1-2 ft., rather slender. Leaves overtopping mfl., i m. broad. Lower 



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