742 CLXxii. ctpeeacej:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carex, 



260, (f- in Tram. Linn. Sop. xx. 129 {riot of Brejer). 0. Neesiana, Arnott 

 ms. [not of Endl.). 



Cetion, Gardner, &c., alt. 6-7000 ft., Thwaites. 



Glabrous. Stems 2-3 ft., rather stout. Leaves often overtopping stem, i in. 

 broad. Splices very close together, subsessile ; lowest sometimes 1^ in. distant on a 

 1 in. peduncle ; bracts very long. Fern, spikes 2 by J-J in., rigid. T/triole ^ io.^ 

 spreading, hardly deflexed, longer than glumes, thin but somewhat succulent ; beak 

 concolorous less than i length of utricle. Nut ellipsoid, trigonons, subsessile, 

 pyramidal at top, shortly apiculate, dark-brown. 



124. C- lurida, C. B. Clarice; spikes 4r-h distant oylindrio, terminal 

 2-3 male purple, lower fern, erect pedunoled dense, fern, glumes elliptic 

 aristate, style 3-fid, utricle ovoid inflated thin lurid glabrous suddenly 

 narrowed into a deeply bifid beak with 2 spreading prominent linear teeth.. 

 0. rostrata, Boech. in Linnsea, xli. 317 {the SiJckim plant). C. ampuUacea, 

 var. Boott ms. — Oaricis sp. (n. 1067), Griff. Itin. Notes, 194. 



SiKKlM HiMAiiXA ; Lachcn, alt. 9-12,000 ft., /. 2). if. Bhotan; Chupcha, 

 alt. 8000 ft., Griffith {Kew Distrib. n. 6066). 



Male glumes purple-red with green keel, triangular tipped. Fern, glumes purple- 

 red on sides, the 3-nerved yellow back excurrent in a rigid scabrous arista, about as 

 long as utricle. Utricles in size and shape about equalling those of small examples 

 of C. rostrata, but different in colour; beak 2-fid very deeply into linear teeth 

 finally stellately divaricate, conspicuous. — Boott observes that he has never seen 

 suchyeiM. glumes as these in C. rostrata. 



126. C. fuscifructus, C. B. Clarke ; spikes 3-6 suberect somewhat 

 distant, terminal one male greenish, lower fem. cylindric dense short- 

 peduncled, fem. glumes lanceolate acute mucronate pale, style 3-fld, utricles- 

 ovoid fuscous many-nerved glabrous, beak oblong conic very long shortly 

 2-fid. 



Assam; Luckimpore, alt. 300 ft., C. S. Clarke. 



Glabrous, stoloniferous. Stems 15 in., rather stout. Leaves overtopping stem, 

 scarcely i in. broad. Lowest spilce sometimes as much as 3 in. distant on a 2 in. 

 peduncle, usually much closer ; bracts 1 ft. Male spike li in., glumes very green 

 on back, aristate. Fem. spikes li by i— J in. ; glumes 3-nerved, rather shorter 

 than utricles, scabrous-pointed. Utricle nearly i in., conically narrowed at base, 

 somewhat inflated ; exserted part of style-branches hardly J utricle. 



*** Utricle hairy, or minutely/ setulose. 



126. C. flacca, Schreb. Spicil. Fl. Lips. Append, u. 669 ; spikes 4-6' 

 distant long-cylindric, terminal 3-2 male, fem. glumes ovate acute, style 

 3-fid rarely 2-fid, utricle ellipsoid turgid obtuse pnberulous-seabrous, 

 beak minute subentire. Host Oram, Austr. i. 66, t. 90 ; t. P, fig. 57, & 

 t. Zz, fig. 113. 0. glauca, 8eop. Oarn. ii. 223 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 459 ; 

 Beichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 29, t. 269; Brejer Symb. Caric. 20, t. 6; BoecTc. 

 in Linnaa, xli. 187. 



SiND, Pinwill. — Temp. N. Hemisphere. 



Glabrous, glaucous. Siolons long, hardening into a creeping branching rhizome 

 15 in. long in a Sind example. Stems 8-18 in. Leases f stem, J in. broad, harsh. 

 Fem. spikes 1} by ^ in., dense in fruit ; male spikes often longer 1| iu. in Sind 

 examples. Lowest spike short-peduncled, erect, or if very remote long-peduncled 

 long-sheathed; bracts usually about as long as infl. Utricle small, about Jj in. in 

 the Sind plant, obscurely trigonous. 



