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collected at 7500’, and Loher, 6975, from Mt. Banahao, Luzon (also collected 
in 1906) at 7500'. The latter locality is the locus classicus of the species. 
Foxworthy found it there in 1907. 
I have taken Vineentia here in the sense of Hooker and Bentham's * Genera 
Plantarum,’ where, however, it is treated as a section of Cladium, The latter 
genus ought, in my opinion, to be restricted to C. jamaicense and its imme- 
diate allies, or, in other words, to the section Zucladium. On the other hand, 
Baumea falcata, Nees, and possibly other species referred to Bawnea, will 
have to be treated as congenerie with Vincentia. The West Indian Macherina, 
Vahl, also approaches so closely to Vincentia that its claim to generic rank 
may be questioned. To define the limits of Vincentia more satisfactorily, it 
will be necessary to subject the Australian and New Zealand species of 
“ Cladium ” to a careful revision. For the purposes of the present paper it 
will suffice to point out the very close relationship of the Malayan species 
recorded from Kinabalu with V. JMeingayi, Stapf (Cladium Maingayi, 
C. B. Clarke) from the Celebes, the Philippine V. falcata, Stapf ( Bawmea 
Juleata, Nees) and the Mascarene V. latifolia, Kunth, on the one side, and 
the Polynesian species, V. samoensis, Stapf (Samoa), V. angustifolia, Gaud. 
(Sandwich Islands), and a doubtful species from the Society Islands ( Pid ill) 
which may be identical with V. scirpoidea, Boeck. from Juan Fernandez, on 
the other side. 
LePIDOSPERMA CHINENSE, Nees in Linnea, ix. 302 (nomen); in Nov. 
Act. six. Suppl. r. (1843) 117. 
Cladium borneense, C. B. Clarke in Trans. Linn, Soc. ser. 2. Dot. iv. 
(1894) 245. 
Kinabalu, Maraiparai spur, 5000’, on open rocks of the marshy 
serpentine ridge. Feb. 4037. 
Distrib. Borneo CB. N. Borneo, Low ; Kinabalu, at the same elevation plain 
of Tamparuli, Burbidge). Malay Peninsula, South China, and North Borneo. 
LorHoscHa@nts, Stapf, gen. nov. 
Affinis Schæno, Linn. (sensu Benth.), sed inflorescentia ampla paniculata, 
spiculis solitariis vel geminatis spe magis minusve peduneulatis, rhachilla 
inter et ultra flores plerumque haud vel breviter producta, perigonii setis 
nuce longioribus barbatis vel plumosis distincta. 
Spiculw angustze, 2-floræ, flore inferiore abortu d , superiore 9. Glume 
distiche imbricatee, inferiores 5-8 vacu:e, a basi sursam gradatim. majores, 
sequentes 2 (vel 1) florigerze quam preecedentes longiores, summa brevis, vacua, 
rhachilla haud flexuosa glumis delapsis cicatricibus arcte approximatis notata, 
internodio summo plerumque vix elongato et quam nuces semper multo 
breviore in una specie vero longiuscule producto. Sete hypogyne 6, nucibus 
longiores, rigidulz, barbatee vel plumosæ. Stamina 3. Stylus cum ovario 
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