Carex.] clxxii. cypehace^. (C.B. Clarke.) 735 



small specimens Boott could not sort between 0. omenta and 0. usimlata. These 

 are_ very near C. fuliginosa, Sohkur, which loolcs different by reason of its paler 

 utricles. 0. cruenta no doubt extends to Central Asia, but it is not Jcnowu under 

 what name the Bussian botanists record it. 



104. C. maculata, Boott in Trans. Linn. Sac. xx. 128 and Oarex, i. 

 9, t. 26; stems 8-24 in. slender, spikes 3-10 oylindrio dense rigid dark 

 terminal one male paler, lowest remote, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid-triangnlar 

 nervose dark brown glabrous granular beakless gland-dotted to base. TAw. 

 Envm. 355 ; Boeck. inLinntea, xl. 191. 0. micans, Boott in Mem. Am. Acad. 

 (N. 8.) vi. 419. 



Khasia ; alt. 4000 ft., C.B. Olarhe, &c. Nilshiei Hills j alt. 5000 ft., 0. B. 

 Clarke, &e. Cbylon ; alt. 5000 ft., Thwaites. Distkib. Korea, Japan, Australia. 



Glabrous. Rhizome creeping; stems 1-3 together. Leaves nearly as long as 

 stem, narrow (hardly more than i in. broad). Fern, spikes nearly 1 in. by |— i in. 

 in diam. ; lowest (sometimes very remote), peduncled (peduncle often 2-4 in.), upper 

 fern, often clustered erect, male slenderer sessile bright brown ; bracts overtopping 

 the infl., leaf-like. Fern, glumes f-^ in., narrow triangular, sub-3-nerved, pale 

 brown with a green centre. Utricles unequally trigonous, 5-8-nerved on each face. 

 Sut sessile, J-f utricle. 



_ 105. C. viclnalis, Boott Ca/rem, iv. 133, t. 428, fig. 2 ; three upper 

 spikes male, fern. 3 distant long-oylindrio dense lowest peduncled, style 

 3-fid or occasionally 2-fid, utricle ovoid beakless glabrous minutely 

 granular. 



NiLOHiBi Hills ; Schmidt. 



Apparently 3 ft high. L6west tract about 1 foot, much overtopping infl., not 

 sheathing. Male spilees f in., pale bright brown, close together. Fern, spikes li by 

 J-| in., erect; lowest peduncle 2 in. ; lowest spike 3 in., distant. Fem. glumes 

 elliptic, obtuse, dark purple with green back. Utricle (unripe) -^^ in. long, dusky 

 grey, obscurely 3-5-nerved on convex face, triangular at either end ; style-branches 

 hardly 4 length of utricle. — Boott compares this species with 0. caespiUtia, Nees ; 

 but the style in 0. vicinalis appears generally 3-fid. The only specimen consists of 

 the top of one stem, as figured by Boott. 



** Utricle glabrous, beak long. 



106. C. Jacklana; Boott in Proc. Linn. Soe. i. 260 and in Trans. 

 Linn. Sac. xx. 132 and Carex, i. 9, t. 25 ; spikes 3-9 distant, uppermost one 

 male, others cylindric-lanceolate, style 8-fid, utricle rather large ellipsoid- 

 lanceolate strongly many-nerved glabrous lurid green gradually narrowed 

 into conic beak. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 353. C. instabilis, Boott tris. ex 

 Boeck. in Linncea, xli. 246. 0. papulosa, Boott in Mem. Am. Acad. vi. 

 •n.s. 418. 



Khasia Hills ; alt. 3-6000 ft., Griffith {Kew Disfrii. 6090), &c.— Distkib. 

 Java, Japan. 



Glabrous. Stems 2 ft., triquetrous, stoutish, scabrous at top. Leaves nearly as 

 long as stem, -J in. broad. Spikes 1 by |- in., lower usually 3-4 in. apart, then 

 erect on short stout peduncle, but rarely a peduncle near base of stem (then of course 

 long slender) is added ; spikes lax-fld., sometimes 2-3 in. long with lower flowers 

 remote; bracts overtopping infl. Fem. glumes ovate, acute, pale, scarious, acute or 

 mncronate. Utricle -J in., subtrigonous, slightly inflated, very strongly nerved ; beak 

 as long as nut, notched. Nut obovoid, triquetrous, pale. — The Khasian plant agrees 

 very closely with the Javan. 



Var. ? minor ; much slenderer, spikes few often few-fld. ovoid, utricle ovoid 

 slightly nerved suddenly narrowed into a linear beak. C. Jackiana, Thw. Enum. 



