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Bengalia: Sahebgunje {Kurz, h. Calcutta); Mymensingh 

 Jumalpore {Griffith, h. Calcutta); Bengalia orientalis' 

 {Griffith nn. 6158, 6158 bis h. Calcutta) ; Chittagong {J. D. 

 Hooker n. 139, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit. ; C. B. Clarke n° 19919 

 h. Calcutta). 



Burma : Pegu {Kurz, nn. 685, 686, 2685, h. Calcutta) ; Mergui 

 {Griffith, h. Kew n. 6168). 



Penang {Wallich n. 3359 D, h. Calcutta). 



Borneo : Banjermassing {Motley n. 995, h. Kew). 



Australia : Portus Jackson {B. Brown n. 5907, hh. Kew, Mus. 

 Brit,). 



Sect. H. Haspani. 



Haspani, Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 34 (C. pulcherrimo excl.) ; Boeck. 

 in Linncea, xxxv. p. 573 (0. pulcherrimo, albostriato excl.). 



Rhizoma ssepius perenne. Folia brevia aut longa, angusta, 

 interdum ad vaginas fere reducta. Umbella composita aut 

 decomposita, spicis ultimis digitatis paucispiculosis. Spicul® 

 multiflorae, compressae ; rhachilla obscurius alata. Glumae spissae, 

 in speciebus typicis minute mucronatae, in caeteris obtusae. 

 Stamina 3-1 ; antheras saepius cristataa, crista modo elongata, 

 modo fere suppiessa, albide glochidiato-spinulosa, raro omnino 

 nulla. Nux parva, in speciebus typicis minuta. 



The next Section (DifFusi) differ by their wider leaves and 

 bracts and larger nut. I think therefore C. albostriatus ought 

 certainly to be placed among the Elegantes, though the amount 

 of real difference between the two sections is small. As to C. 

 pulcherrimus it seems (with C. silletensis) to me to stand very 

 naturally next C. difformis and C. fuscus ; indeed I find C. 

 pulcherrimus, C. silletensis, and C. difformis are much confounded 

 in herbaria. As to C. vaginatus, seeing that it can stand in the 

 Haspani without introducing an exception to their character, it 

 makes one section less to arrange it here. 



86. C. Haspan {Linn. Sp. PI. p. 66, partim, nee Linn. h. 

 propr.) ; matura viridis pallida aut atrosanguinea nee flavida ; 

 radice perenni, repente ; foliis brevibus, iongis aut nullis ; invo- 

 lucri foliis saspius 2 brevibus, interdum lengis ; spiculis parvis, 

 lineari-oblongis ; staminibus 3-2 ; nuce parva, obovoidea obtu- 

 siuscula, acute trigona, pallida aut brunnescente, scabrida vel fere 

 levi.— Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 210 ; Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 80; 



