“176 MISS L. S. GIBBS ON THE FLORA AND PLANT FORMATIONS 
Another specimen collected by Miss Gibbs in a ditch by the bridle-path to 
Melalap, at 700^ (No. 2681), is possibly referable to F. miliacea. Tt has quite 
the facies of this species, but the spikelets are rather longer, with the glumes 
less bulging and the ultimately bare rhachis slightly stouter. To this may be 
added certain anatomical differences in the stems and leaves. In F. miliacea 
there are, apart from the great primary vascular bundle, 4-8 small ones to each 
face of the quadrangular stem, in No. 2681, on the other hand, only 2. The 
leaves of F. miliacea in its typical form have numerous nerves on each face 
with large lacunz alternating with them, and leaving only a narrow zone of 
parenchymatie tissue in the median plane, whilst those of No. 2681 are solid 
throughout with only half as many nerves and a very large-celled parenchyma 
in the middle. They are also on the whole narrower. Striking as the 
differences may appear at first sight, they may after all come within the 
limits of the ordinary fluctuation of the structure of the stems and leaves of 
F. miliacea. To decide this much more material would be required. 
FIMBRISTYLIS COMPLANATA Link, Hort. Berol. ed. 2, i. 292. 
Kaningau plain, 1000’, in clear marshland near the “Station.” Fl. Jan. 
4353. 
Distrib. Borneo (Dutch S.E. Borneo, Wongabong, near Martapura, Motley, 
84). All warm regions. 
FiuBnisTYLIS Lackr, Turrill in Kew Bull. 1911, 348. 
Tenom, 800', along paths in recent clearings near the “Residency.” Fl. 
Jan. 2771. 
Distrib. The only other locality so far known is in Upper Burma. 
*SCHENUS KINABALUENSIS, Stapf, sp. nov. ; affinis Š. apogoni, Roem. & 
Schult., sed spiculis solitariis vel geminatis majoribus unifloris antheris multo 
longioribus, setis longioribus, nuce duplo majore. 
Herba perennis, dense ceespitosa, 10-15 cm. alta vel in umbrosis magis 
elongata. Caules tenues, subfiliformes, erecti vel in umbrosis e basi 
prostrata, ramosa ascendentes. Foliorum vaginee arctæ, 10-15 (vel ultra) 
mm. longs, atro-purpurascentes, superne anguste albo-hyalino-marginate, 
nitentes ; laminæ setace:, rigidule, dorso rotundate, facie leviter concave, 
5-10 em. longs, glaberrima, ad margines remote scaberule. — Spiculir 
solitarie vel geminatz e vaginis superioribus ortz, pedunculis inæquilongis 
vel summis brevissimis, lamina summa sepissime superatz, lanceolate, 
atropurpureg, 7—7:5 mm. longe, glaberrime, 1-flore. Glume duæ vel tres 
inferiores vacuæ, 3 mm. longze, acute vel mucronulate, in carina superne 
asperule ; tertia vel quarta lineari-oblonga, obtusiuscula vel acuta, 5 mm. 
longa, florem subtendens ; summa przecedenti similis, eam paulo superans, fere 
