OF MT, KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 177 
semper obtusiuscula, vacua, basi utrinque in rhachillæ articulum ad 2 mm, 
longum decurrente et florem amplectente. Setæ 6, tenuissime, minutissime 
barbellatze, exteriores sub staminibus ortæ, ovarii angulis opposite, 3 mm. 
longe. Stamina 3, filamentis 5 mm. longis, antheris 4 mm. longis. Ovarium 
oblongo-ellipsoideum, subtrigonum; styli rami 3 e gluma summa exserti, 
Nux 2 mm. longa, ad angulos tenuiter costata.—5. apogon, C. B. Clarke in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Bot. iv. (1894) 245, non Roem. & Schult. 
Near Pakapaka cave, under wind-swept scrub, 9000'. Fl. 42320. In 
cracks of the granite core, 13,300'. 4188, 4198. 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Kinabalu, 9000', Low ; 12,000-13,000', Havi- 
land). 
Low’s plant represents the same drawn-out shade condition as Miss Gibbs’s 
no. 4220 from Pakapaka. 
Clarke says of Sehenus that the adaxial stamen and the nearest 2 lateral 
stamens are suppressed in the 5 staminate flowers, so that the 3 remaining 
stamens are all on one side of the flower. I find in S. apogon and 
S. kinabaluensis invariably the outer 3 stamens, i. e. those opposite to the ribs 
of the nut developed, each having one of the outer bristles below it, whilst the 
inner bristles alternate with them. As described above, the blades of 
S. kinabaluensis are rounded on the back and channelled above with 3 faint 
longitudinal ridges corresponding to as many sclerenchymatic strands, one 
of which is median and the others lateral. In S. apogon the leaves are 
grooved on the back, and there are only two sclerenchymatic strands 
corresponding to the lateral of ©. kinabaluensis. The number of vascular 
strands is 5 in S. kinabaluensis and 4 in Š. apogon, the median being absent 
in the latter. 
SCHENUS MELANOSTACHYS, FP. Br. Prod. 231. 
Kinabalu, Maraiparai spur, 5000’, on the marshy open serpentine ridge. 
Fl. Feb. 4038. 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Kinabalu, Maraiparai, 5500', Haviland). 
Philippines (Mt. Halcon, Æ. D. Merrill, 6173). Queensland to New South 
Wales; West Australia. 
I am not quite certain that the Dorneo and Philippine plants are identical 
with the Australian S. melanostachys. The spikelets are fewer and slightly 
smaller and apparently always 1-flowered, with only 4 barren glumes below 
the fertile. They also taper less gradually to the point. The Borneo and 
Philippine specimens may, however, be merely * plantee depauperatze.” 
SCHONUS sp. 
Maraiparai spur, 5000', on the open marshy serpentine ridge. Feb. 4075 
(very imperfect). 
Distrib. “ Predominating in parts, associated with Eria grandis." (L.8.G.) 
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