724 CLXxii. CYPBB.voEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Oarex. 



lowest peduncle exsert 5 in. Partial panicles 4 by H, appearing as if simple with 

 distant whorls of sessile spikes. Spikex If in., througliout the plant many male, 

 many with only one basal fem. Utricle with many, not prominent, nerves. — This 

 may be a sexual (nearly male) state of 0. Myosurus, as Duthle regarded it. 



70. C. spioulata, Boott in Froc. Linn. 8oc. i. 288, and in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XX. 139 and Carex, i. 3, t. 7 ; leaves narrow, spikes denser with 

 obliquely ascending frnits, panicle more rigid (otherwise as C. Myosurus, 

 var. /3). 



SiKKiM; alt. 1-2000 ft., common. Khasia Kiils, alt. 250-6000 ft., very 

 common. 



JJcricle ellipsoid, trigonous ; lanceolate upwards ; beak as though short cylindric, 

 the strong margins of the utricle carried up the beak as winged margins. — Boott 

 says separable from 0. Myosurus by the glabrous utricles, but in Boott's own 

 material the utricle is more or less hairy — -just as in C. Myosurus. 



Var. nohilis (sp.) Boott Oarex, i. 4, tt. 9, 10, 11 ; infl. large compound, ripe 

 utricle more spreading their short beaks somewhat recurved. C. pandata, Soott 

 ms. — Jaintea Hills ; alt. 3500-5000 ft., J. D. S., 0. B. Clarice. — This local form is 

 very striking, and is named 0. nohilis by Boott in Herb. Hook. ; but the 0. nohilis 

 Boott, tt. 9, 10, 11, appear large forms of 0. spioulata, leading on to the Jaintea 

 plant. 



71. C. composita. Boott Oarex, i. 3, t. 8 ; leaves long narrow, panicle 

 long narrow, spikes in fruit dense, fem. glumes brown-margined cuspidate 

 often overtopping beak of fruit, style 3-fid, utricle small oTjovoid pyra- 

 midal-compressed at top hairy nearly or quite nerveless beak very small. 

 Boeck. in Linnma, xl. 328 ; G. B. Glarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 82. 0. 

 Myosurus, Boott ims. {partly). 



From Bhotan, Griffith, to Mee&ui, Griffith, Khasia Hiils ; alt. 3-6000 ft., 

 J. D. H., &c., and east to Naga Hiils. 



Glabrous, except utricles. Uhizome creeping ; stolons often 3-6 in. by i in. 

 diam. Stems 2 ft. Leaves usually (with bracts) overtopping stems, J in. broad, 

 caudate-setaceous rough.tipped. Infl. 6-12 in., narrow, 6— 15-spiked ; lowest 

 peduncle usually short 4-1-spiked, occasionally more distant long filiform. Spilees 

 usually 1-14 in., sometimes nearly 3 in., and much broader with very long fem. 

 glumes. C7iric/e short-stalked, green then stramineous. — Primarily distinguishable 

 from C. Mj/osurus and 0. spiculata, by the nerveless utricles. 



72. C. desponsa, Boott Carex, ii. 82, t. 228 ; leaves long narrow, 

 peduncles 3-7 very distant 1-spiked, terminal spike with fem. at base or 

 wholly male, fem. glume small ovate cuspidate, style 3-fld, utricle large 

 ellipsoid trigonous nervose glabrous, beak linear | utricle. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 5 -6000 ft., Moflong and Mairung Woods, J. D. E. 



Glabrous. Rhitome woody, horizontal. Stems 12-20 in. ieo«es numerous 

 overtopping stem, i-i in. broad j lower spikes 3-6 in. apart, long-pedunoled. Spikes 

 \\ by \ in., lax, ferruginous green. JJiricle (including beak) i in., ferruginous 

 or brown-red, beak sparsely scabrous with 2 small teeth.— Boott likens this to G. 

 Icngi^es, Don in general habit. It does not seem really allied to 0. Mi/osurus, and 

 the termmal spike being not rarely wholly male, its true affinity is perhaps not with 

 the Sect. Indicts. 



73 C. scitula, Boott Carex, iv. (1867), 177, t. 600; stems slender 

 tufted, leaves overtopping mfl. linear, spikes 3-7 oblong cylindric dense 

 comose from brown-red stigmas, fem. glumes lanceolate acuminate, style 



