Carez.] clxxii. CYPBRAOEiB. (C. B. Glarke.) 741 



461. 0. paludo'sa, Ooodeh. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 202 ; Nees in Wight 

 Contnb. p. 129 ; Anderss. Gyp. ' Scand. 17 ; Zunth Unum. ii. 487 ;. Reichb. 

 Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 28, t. 266 ; Bootf Garex, iv. 214. C. Koohiana, DC. Sort. 

 Mrnisp. 89 ; Beiohh. I. c. t. 271. 



Kashmir, alt. 7000 ft., Thomson. Nepai, Royle (n. 130).— Distrib, Cool 

 N. temp, regions. 



This differs from 0. rostrata and C. vesicaria by the thick dark-eolrd, male 

 spikes, the saberect (not divaricate) ripe utricles, the fuscous lurid grey colour of 

 utricles with shorter beak. — In Jaesohke's Lahoul collections is a young Ckrex' with 

 11 spikes, the lower peduncles carrying 3-4 spikes, style 3-fld, utricle, glabrous j 

 it is too young for determination, and resembles generally 'C.aouta rather than 0. 

 acutiformis, but the style is 3-fid so that it must be placed here. 



121. C. tumida, Boott Carex, i. 66, fc. 181; spikes 5-6 subereot, 

 terminal one male long linear, lower, fem. short-pedunoled distant long- 

 «ylindric dense, fem. glumes lanceolate shoi;t aristate pale, style 3-fid, 

 utricle ellip-foid fuscous glabrous suddenly narrowed. into, a conic-linear 

 shortly -notched beak. ' BoecJc. in lAnnsea, xli. 243. 



SiKKiM HiMAiAYA, alt. 9000 ft., j. B. M., alt. 5000 ft., C. B. Clarie. Khasia 

 HILIS ; Shillong, alt. 6000 ft., C. B. Glwrhe. 



.Glabrous. Stc..'!* 12-18 in. ieajies tonger than stein, J-^ in. broad. Terminal 

 ipiJce 2 in., very narrow, pale. Lower spikes fem. 2-3 by i in., ripe fruits obliquely 

 suberect. Fem. glumes narrow-lanceblate, 3-nerved, stramineous, shorter than 

 utricle, aristate or muticons; bracts much overtopping infl. Utricle ^ in., not 

 inflated, thin, obscurely nerved, lurid slate-colrd. ; beak nearly as long as utricle 

 its lower half conic. .3r«t obovoid -ellipsoid, trigonous, filling utricle. — The swelling 

 in the middle of the beak, figured and insisted on by Boptt, is taken from a singly 

 (not well-ripe) collection ; in well-ripened fruits the lower half of the beak is conic 

 the upper narrow oblong ; it is hardly possible to describe it as tumid in the 

 middle. 



122. C. olivacea, Boott in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 286,^ in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XX. 138, & Garex, i. 56, t. 149; spikes 4^8 subereot j terminal one male, 

 lower fem. somewhat distant short-peduncled long-cylindrio dense, fem. 

 glumes lanceolate aristate pale, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid inflated fuscous 

 glabrous finally deflexed suddenly narrowed into a short linear notched 

 beak.- 0. confertiflora, Boott in Mem. Am. Acad. N. S. vi. £1859] 418, 4" 

 Garess, iv. l?i4>;FraUch.-8f Savat. PL Japan, ii. 151, 678. 



SiKKiM ; Terai, /. D. H. Assam, alt. 300-1000 ft., frequent, 0. B.. Clarke, &c. 

 Cachae, Keenan. — Distbib. Java, Japan. 



Taller and stouter than 0. tumida, Boott ; leaves in Hooker's examples up to 

 J in. broad. Stolons longi. Terminal • spite 2-4 by i in., glumes obtuse purple 

 with green keel. Fem. spiies (not quite ripe) up to 7 by i in. in Hooker's examples, 

 usually shorter thicker denser. Young utricle ovoid-conic, gradually narrovired up- 

 wards, when ripe much- inflated ; teeth of beak short, linear, finally spreading not 

 very prominent. Ifut ellipsoid or ovoid, much smaller than utricle.— Usually larger 

 thanC. twmida; it is easily told from it when young by the much thicker deeply- 

 colrd. male spike, when ripe by the inflated deflexed utricles. 



123. C. lobulirostris, Brejer Bymb. Garie.'2,7, t. 14; spikes 4!-6 

 approximate large cylindric erect, terminal one male dark brown, glumes 

 lanceolate aristate dark brown fem. much smaller, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid 

 somewhat inflated black red' glabrous nervose suddenly narrowed into a 

 linear shortly-notched beak. Boott Carex, iv. 190; Thw. ^mtro. 356; 

 Boeek. in Linnsa, xli. 244. 0. Arnottiana, Bootf m Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 



