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CYPERACEAE 



FIMBRISTYLIS Vahl 



FIMBRISTYLIS DURA (Zoll. & Mor.) comb. nov. 



Isolepsis dura Zoll & Mor. Syst. Verzeich. (1845-46) 97; Miq. Fl. Ind. 



Bat. 3 (1857) 312. 

 Fimbristylis asperrima Boeckl. in Linnaea 37 (1871-73) 40; Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1893) 643. 

 Sarawak, Lundu, Foxworthy S25, May 31, 1908; near Kuching, Native 

 collector 670 (Bur. Sci.), August, 1911. 



The species has been reported from Borneo by Ridley, by Winkler, and 

 by Miss Gibbs, as Fimbristylis asperrima Boeckl. Isolepsis dura is, how- 

 ever, the older name. Ceylon to the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



MA PAN I A Aublet 

 MAPANIA FOXWORTHYI sp. nov. § Halostema. 



Foliis coriaceis, usque ad 120 cm longis et 2 cm latis, basi haud 

 angustatis, apice longissime sensim attenuates, margine aculeato- 

 scabris; capitulis longe pedunculatis, globosis, sub anthesin 

 circiter 4 cm diametro, spicis circiter 25, distinctis, oblongo- 

 ovoideis, 1.7 ad 2 cm longis, bracteis 1 ad 1.5 cm longis. 



A coarse perennial glabrous plant. Leaves numerous, linear, 

 coriaceous, somewhat shining, up to 120 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm 

 wide, base scarcely narrowed, sheathing but not widened or in- 

 flated, the upper portion gradually narrowed into a slender, 

 aculeate-scabrid tail 15 to 20 cm in length, the margins rather 

 prominently aculeate-scabrid, the midrib aculeate-scabrid on the 

 lower surface in the upper part of the leaf. Scapes about 40 

 cm long, obscurely 3-angled. Heads, in flower, globose, about 4 

 cm in diameter, composed of about 20 distinct spikes, the indi- 

 vidual spikes brown when dry, oblong-ovoid, 1.7 to 2 cm long, 

 each composed of very many spikelets. Bracts ovate, brown, 

 coriaceous, 1 to 1.5 cm long, those subtending the spikes 2 or 3, 

 boat-shaped, keeled, about 8 mm long. Bracteoles about 12 mm 

 long, 3 mm wide, oblong, coriaceous, striate, glabrous, obtuse. 

 Two outer glumes linear, boat-shaped, scabrid on the keel, 10 

 to 12 mm long, the others linear, thin, about as long as the outer 

 two. Styles bifid, rarely trifid. 



Sarawak, Mount Poe (Rumput), Foxworthy 392, June 3, 1908, near the 

 summit of the mountain. 



A species well characterized by its long narrow leaves which are very 

 gradually narrowed upward to the long, slender, aculeate-scabrid tip but 

 not narrowed toward the base ; its long scapes ; and its large globose solitary 

 heads in which the individual spikes, about 25 in number, are distinct. It 

 probably is as closely allied to Mapania palustris Benth. as to any other 

 species, but is entirely distinct from that form. 



