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an oblong appendage abont 1 cm. long. Spikolots purple, mostly sessile, 
rather crowded, nsuall}^ 3-flowcrcd, the flowcrri perfect, G to 7 nun. 
long; three lower glumes empty, ovate to oblong ovate, 2.5 to 4 mm. 
long, short acuminate, the three succeeding glumes obiong-ovate, 4 mm. 
long, short sharp acuminate, each with a perfect flower, the seventh glume 
usually empty. Nut immature, trigonous, with a trigonous glalirous 
beak, the style 3-cleft. Stamens 3; antliers lanceolate, 2.^ mm. long, 
^ mucronate-acuminate. 
On an open heath at 2,400 iii. alt. (No. 5562) (sterile). The type of tlie 
species is No. 2386 Foxworthy from Mount Banajao, Province of Tayahas, Luzon, 
March, 1907, alt. 2,250 m. The second species of the genus to hv fouiul In the 
« Philippines. 
Undoubtedly most closely related to the Hongkong Cladium enaitjonim lianee, 
■<? but differing from that species in its smooth leaf-margins and much smaller 
spikelets. An Australian type. 
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SCHOENUS Linn. 
Schoenus melanostachys R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 2:11; Bcnth. Fl. Au^tr. 7 
^ (1878) 370; Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. IL 4 (1894) 245. 
In open heaths at 2,400 m. alt. (No. 6173). 
North Borneo and Australia. 
This species, new to the Philippines, is widely distributed in Australia, where 
the genus is largely developed, and has also been found on Mount Kinabalu in 
British North Borneo at an altitude of 1,700 m. It must therefore be considered 
both an Australian and a Bornean representative in the Philippine flora. Schoe- 
nus apogoii Pu & S., has been found in northern Luzon hy Lohcr 
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GAHNIA Forat. 
Gahnia javanica Morilzi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. (1845-46) 98; Clarke in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. Bot. 2 (1907) 103. 
In rather oj^en thickets, exposed ridge at 2,250 m. alt. (No. G1G2). 
Previously known in the Philippines from Mount Banajao, Luzon, and Mount 
Apo, Mindanao. ■ 
Yunnan and Penang to New Guinea and the Viti Islands. 
SCLERIA Berg. 
Scleria chinensis Kunth Enum. 2 (1837) 357; Clarke iu Philip. Jouni. Sci. 
Bot. 2 (1907) 105. 
At 1,700 m. alt. (No. 4439 Mrrritt) June, 1906. 
Previously known in the Philii^pine.s from Luzon, Negros and Mindanno. 
China to Singapore, Malaya and Queensland. 
CAREX Linn. 
Carex filicina Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) 123; Chuke iii Philip. Journ. 
Sci. Bot. 2 (1907) 107. 
In exposed ridge-thickets at 2,250 m. alt. (No. 6,200); also collected by 
Merritt at 1,30U m. alt., in June, 1906 (No. 4384). 
Previouslv known in the Philippines only from the mountains of northern and 
central Luzon. 
India to China. 
"Clarke, This Journal, Sec. C (1907), 2, 102. 
