p 3 215 
e Cei CR. 
m Caricis, Retz. Fl. Scand. Prod., p. 11; — f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi 
Europe, West ane Central Asin, and the mountains of North 
India 
Kobresia sp. 
Mr. C. B. Clarke, who 0 kindly examined this and the other Cyperaceæ 
in iéttihit n, did not succeed in matching tina in the Kew Herbarium, 
but the- fnaterial i is Hardly sufficient fór deseriptio 
tulata, Wahl. in Vet. Akad. Nya. Hanil. Stockh., p. 156 
(1805); Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi., p. 734. 
Widely spread in the cold regions of the northern hemisphere, and 
ranging between 12,000 and 17,000 ft. in the mountains of North 
India. 
GRAMINEA: 
Littledalea, Hemsl. ; Spic parabiles, 2-8 flore, laxe paniculatæ, 
graciliter pedicellatæ; -rac hilla inter flores elongata, glabra, jnxta 
flores et supra glumas. inferiores-~ ‘alleen flores grandes, herma- 
phroditi vel supremo imperfec ecto. Glumz 2 inferiores vacua, in: es, 
quam florentes multo minores, ecarinate, obtuse vel truncate, simul 
marginate vel erosz, mutica, trinervate, nervis haud excurrentibus 
vel 
rotundatz, supra medium hyalinz, mutice, ecarinat:, demum erosm, 
basi insigniter. callose, 7-nervatz, nervis omnibus vix excurrentibus ; 
palea multo minor, bifida, bicarinata. "Stamina 3. Lodi cule 2, tenues, 
anguste, oblongs, integra. Styli Apeviemt stigmatibus iato piuinOSis. 
aryopsis immatura hirsuta,— Graimen ut videtur perenne, pulchrum, 
erectum, foliis planis brevibus. Patiiculs terminalis, angusta, d 
sepissime geminatis s pedicellisque capillaribus. Spicule szpe gem 
altera minore pedicello breviore. 
L. tibética, .; eulmis- Ampli icibus graciliuseulis glabris 
levi ribus — (an semper ?) bifoliatis (nodo unico tantum icuo 
ternod eriore longissime exserto, vaginis laxis glabris vel 
inferioribus paberi superioribus apertis, laminis brevibus li 
subacutis valide striatis utrinque puberulis basi appendice A va 
utrinque instructis, ligula folii caulini inferioris magna i a vel 
demum lacerata foliorum superiorum adnodum redacta, E icc pes 
ssepius ceder 4, cum exse pu pureis. a 
Spicule maxim» pollica Gluma exterior circiter 3-lin. longa, 
secunda m lin. sec Gluma a florens| e lin. longa, aperti 2 lin. ik 
Palea circiter 4 lin. longa. . i 
Agropyrum iatum, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram., p. 346. 
Throughout the Himalayas at considerable altitudes. 
FiricEs. 
Pol: ium hastatum, Thunb.; Hook. Sp., Fil.v., p. 74. 
Japan, Formosa, Corea, and nearly throughout Chins, It was also 
collected by Père David in: Moupine, Eastern Tibet; but Mr, 
Littledale's locality i is the most western yet known 
