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ILLUSTRATIONS 
OF 
THE GENUS CAREX. 
PART II. 
188. C. cruenta (Nees); spicis 4-5 pedunculatis re- 
motis oblongo-cylindricis, terminalibus 1-3 masculis 
fusco-ferrugineis nutantibus, reliquis foemineis atro-pur- 
pureis crassis basi attenuatis longe exserte pedunculatis 
pendulis, infima rarius basi composita; bracteis in- 
ferioribus foliaceis vaginatis pedunculo brevioribus; stig- 
matibus 3; perigyniis ovato- vel ovali-lanceolatis rostratis 
bifidis superne margine plus minus serratis enerviis atro- 
sanguineis basi albidis superne tenuissime granulatis 
membranaceis, squama lanceolata acuminata acuta his- 
pido-aristata atro-purpurea, nervo pallidiore latioribus 
longioribusque.—C. cruenta, Wees, apud Wight, 128; 
Kunth, 463. (Tab. CCI.) 
Hab. In Himalaya et Tibetia temperata et alpina, 
Kashmir, et Kishtwar, alt. 8-10,000 ped., Dr. Thomson, 
Jacquemont. Kumaon et Garhwal, Wattich, n. 3389. 
Kunawur, Munro, n. 2435, alt. 15-17,000 ped. Gugi, 
Strachey et Winterhottom, alt. 15,500 ped. Sikkim, J. 
D. HooJcer, alt. 13,000 ped. 
Radix fibris junioribus lanuginosis. Culmus l|-pedalis, 
lsevis, inferne foliatus; pars spicas gerens 6-14 poll, longa. Fo¬ 
lia 2-4 lin. lata, culmo multum breviora. Bractece inferiores 
vaginatse, foliacese, peclunculis breviores : superiores squamse- 
formes. Vagina infima l|-2 poll, longa. Pedunculi setacei, 
scabri, superne contorti: infimus ssepe 4-5 poll, longus; in- 
terdum superne bracteola squamseformi, paulo infra apicem 
sita, munitus. Spicce masculce 7-11 tin. Ion gee, 1-2 lin. lata:, 
pedunculatse, bracteolatse, nutantes, 1-2, rarius 3, una alterave 
ssepe abortiva, bracteola squamteformis sterilis solum exposita. 
Spied! fceminecB 2-3, plerumque simplices, vel infima rarius 
spicula minori basi aucta, 8-16 liu. longse, 4-6 lin. latte, a se 
3-5 poll, reinotag atro-purpurea:, concolores. Squamae confor¬ 
ms. Perigynium 2- r 7 - {) -3 f '- lT lin. longum, T 8 5 -l lin. latum, nervis 
2 marginalibus ssepe viridibus, tenuissimum, inferne (ubi 
achenium tegens) compresso-trigonum, superne complanatum ; 
rostri 1 acini a: obtuse vel subulata:; ore subobliquo, (sub lente) 
ciliato; rarius glabrum. Achenium (cum stipite -Jr lin. longo) 
I-ts bn. longum, Ao bn. latum, ellipticum, triquetrum, pal¬ 
lidum. 
A C. ustulata, Wahl., differt inflorescentia longiori; spicis 
masculis pluribus, foemineis longioribus, remotis; perigyniis 
longius rostratis; achenio longe stipitato; squamis omnibus 
aristatis. 
Magis ad C. frigulam, All., accedit. Differt spicis masculis 
pluribus, squamis aristatis. 
The specimens from Herb. Wallich (Tab. CCI.), on which G. 
cruenta was founded by Nees, are fully mature, and all have simple 
spikes, with a rudimentary bracteola occasionally on the peduncle, 
showing a tendency to composition. The male spikes are pedun¬ 
culate, and more contracted from the absence of anthers which 
have fallen, and the consequent closer imbrication of the squamse. 
On one specimen only, from Munro, is the lower spike compound, 
and in one from Jacquemont (Tab. CCII. No. 1) the terminal 
spikes are male at base, all simple. In some young specimens 
from Dr. Thomson and Dr. Hooker the squamse are often muticae 
(probably from age), but the longer and more remote spikes dis¬ 
tinguish them from G. ustulata. A slight emargination of the 
squamse is occasionally perceptible in Wallich’s specimens. 
Var. /3. major; spicis 6-9, terminalibus contiguis ses- 
silibus, 3-4 omnino masculis, vel 3-5 basi masculis, una 
alterave ssepe apice vel basi vel medio mascula, inferi- 
oribus pedunculatis, reliquis 2-4 foemineis, omnibus vel 
inferioribus vel infima solum basi spiculis 1-2 compo- 
sitis; perigyniis plus minus margine serratis, squamis in- 
terdum subemarginatis breve aristatis vel muticis, foliis 
bracteisque subinde latioribus. (Tab. CCII. No. 2, and 
Tab. CCIII.) 
Hab. Kisliingnnga, Gugi, Strachey et Winterhottom, 
n. 106 (Tab. CCII., No. 2). Kishtwar, Dr. Thomson, 
alt. 8-10,000 ped. (Tab. CCIII.). 
These specimens are young. Besides the sessile terminal spikes, 
the variation in the distribution of the male florets (in which 
they resemble C. ustulata), the occasional emarginate squamse, 
the longer inflorescence, and broader leaves and bracts, I see no 
essential character separating them from the typical form. More 
fully mature specimens would probably exhibit a longer arista to 
the squamse. 
189. C. Koestlini (Hochstetter); spica maxima supra- 
decomposita (ambitu lanceolato vel oblongo) straminea 
vel ferruginea, e spiculis androgynis apice masculis co- 
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