on edges of spikes: upper very close to the middle only shortly below the lower on a ciliary st. from near the base of st. Directly up each spike short (i.e. scarcely overtopping spikes); bract of middle spikes long (i.e. overtopping spikes by ± 15 mm). Spikes short about 4 fls. Fr 5mm long, perigynia obovate, flattened into a somewhat acclined beak (1mm long), shortly 2-cliff. Perigynia nerved, and almost glabrous (perhaps not desc. as minutely hisped [box] scaly?) & green or black, red-brown edges, nervd. not quite as long as fs. Styles 3. Aclene trigonous, 3½ mm long with a little over the tip (1mm) which is bent to one side. Face of aclene may poss. be transversely wrinkled later (as at all time of this). Ingle fls very short truncate (hardly more than a ridge) 6-3-32 Carex distachya Deef. Kn I 346, = C. Linkii Zeller. Bar 479, Bon 332: = C. longiseta Beetero Cate III 581 Alofs. Puig Hros-Veya (not a specific gorge or cliff?) 6-3-32 Ruda chalepensis L. var bracteosa Kneble. Kn II 740 = P. bracteosa DC. Bes 95, Bon 63, Cote I 269. Fl v unripe fr. Just behind house where path starts up Puig Hros-Veya gorge. Cd with R. chalepensis from Bellos, but plant plainly recognized without comparison. Plant larger & stouter in all parts, st vld dark green (gray- green in species), bracts large throughout mpls. Fr now 1 cm diam (larger than ripe fr of species