Garex.] clxxii. OTPERACBiE. (0. B. Clarke.) 743 



127. C. setig-era, Don in Trans. Linn. 8oc. xiv. 330, & Prodr. 43 ; 

 stoloniferous, spikes 4-8 oylindric distant, terminal 1 (or 2-3) male, lowest 

 fern, pedunoled erect, fem. glumes ovate often aristate, style 3-fld, utricles 

 ovoid hispid suddenly narrowed iiito small oblong notched beak. Nees in 

 Wight Contrib. 126 ; Kwnth Enum. ii: SIS (partlif) ; Boeck. in lAnncea, xli. 

 189 {exel. Boott, t. 6, cited). 0. hymenlblepis, JVees I.e. 126; Eunth'l.c. 

 505. 0. setigera, var. minor, Strachey Cat. PI. Kumaon, 73 [not Boott). — 

 Oarex, Wall. Gat. 3385. 



Himalaya, alt. 7-10,000 ft., frequent, from Musaoorie, Jaequemont, to Sikkim, 

 J. D. S., and Phari, G. King. 



Glabrous. Rhizome long, creeping, -^ in. in. diam. Stems 1-2 ft. Leaves 

 nearly as long as stem, f-J in. broad. Spikes 1^-2 in. long (in. the typical 0. 

 hymenolepis, hardly half as much in the var. chronlepis, Drejer), fem. up to J in. 

 broad (but not more ' than. J in. broad in smaller forms referred here) ; lowest fem. 

 spike often male at top, rather lax, often interrupted at base. Fem. glumes as long 

 as utricle, with a bristle much overtopping utricle in the standard form (which is 

 often small or disappears) usually with bright browp sides and scarious margins (but 

 the colour of male and fem. glumes varies widely). Utricle ys-^^ in., brown-green, 

 very hispid, nerveless, strongly 2-edged, the concave face only obscurely ridged by 

 the angle of nut, margined by- the incurved edges. Nut ellipsoid, trigonous, nar- 

 rowed much at base, dark brown; style slender, glabrous, base not dilated; exsert 

 part of branches about as long as utricle. 



128. C. Scblagrintweitiana, SoecA. Oi/p. iVbw. i. 48 ; stoloniferous, 

 spikes 3-6 very small oylindric distant palei terminal 1 (or 2) male, lowest 

 fem. pednncled erect, fem. glumes ovate often mucronate, style 3-fid, 

 utricle very small ovoid hispid suddenly narrowed into small oblong 

 notched beak. C. setigera, var. j8 minor, Boott Oarex, i. 2, t. 6, fig. 1 (not 

 fig. 2). 



N.W. Himalaya, alt. 6-10,000 ft. ; Kashmir, C. JB. Clarke; Nyn^Tal, Thomson; 

 Simla, Sehlagintweit (n. 5039), &c. Sind, Pinwill. — Distkib. Yankand. 



Stolons numerous, long. Stems 4-10 in., slender. Leaves l^rtopping stem, 

 tV in. broad. Fem. spikes (in fruit) i by Jg-i in., weak. . Utriclxs hardly -jV in. 

 long.' — Otherwise as C. setigera, Don, from which this differs mainly in size.' 



129. C. inanis, Kunth Enum. ii. 522; spikes 4-12 oylindric approxi- 

 mate, terminal one male, fem. glumes ovate sonuetimes mucronate, style 

 3-fid, utricle small ovoid trigonous hispid suddenly narrowed into' a small 

 notched bea,k. 0. setigera, ^ minor, Boott Ga/rex, i. 2, t. 6 (mostly, i. e. 

 fig. 2). 0. setigera, y humilis, Nees in Wight Gontrib. 126. C. setigera, 

 var. fascicularis, Strachey Cat. PI. Kumaon, 73. 0. setigera, Kunth Enum. 

 ii. 515 (^a»-%).— Ca.rex s^. (Boyle, n. 122), Nees in Wight Gontrib. p. 120. • 



Himalaya, alt. 7-10,000 ft. ; from Kashmir, G. B. Clarke, to Sikkim, J. S. H. 



Bhizome divided, short, i. b. arises from lateral offsetts not from elongate stolons. 

 Stems 2-15 in., slender. Leaves overtopping sJem, narrow. Brads very long, con- 

 spicuously overtopping infl. Spikes (in fruit) f by J in., dense, grey-greeff, upper 

 often fascicled, lowest sometimes a little distant, short-peduncled, occasionally carry- 

 ing 3-4 spikes. Fem. glumes frequently muticous, the midrib sometimes shortly 

 excurrent. THricle much smaller than in 0. setigera, Don, more turgid, without 

 one face concave. — Spiljes much denser than those of C. setigera, Don. 



130. C. kashuiirensis, G. B. GlarJce ; spikes 3-6 short-oylindric 

 approximate, terminal 1-3 male, fem. glumes ovate muticous, style 3-fid, 

 utricle ellipsoid lanceolate trigonous hispid acuminated into oblong deeply 

 bifid beak. 0. hirtella, Boott ms. (partly). 



