A NEW SPECIES OF VINCENTIA FROM THE 
PHILIPPINES 
By O. STAPF 
Of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, England 
VINCENTIA CRINITA Stapf sp. nov. 
Closely allied to V. anceps Hk. f. (Cladiuwm sinclairii Hk. f.) 
but differing in the 1- or 2-flowered, less compact spikelets and 
the wider, markedly white style-base of the ovary, slightly smaller 
nuts with a short pyramidal pubescent top, sharper and almost 
winged, broader, narrowing stipe. 
Perennial, 50 cm high. Culms compressed to ancipitous, with 
a single leaf from halfway up to the inflorescence. Basal leaves 
about 9, crowded, equidistant, sheathing portion about 4 to 5 cm 
long, blade 15 to 22 ecm by 4 to 8 mm, acute, finely striate. 
Panicle over 20 cm long, formed of 5 or 6 downward distant 
anthelae; lowest anthela supported by a bract whose sheathing 
portion is compressed, sharply keeled, and 2.5 cm long, whilst 
the ensiform, shortly acute blade is 3 cm by 4 mm; bracts of the 
following anthelae rapidly decreasing in size, their blades nar- 
rowly linear to subulate; branches of the lowest anthela 2, of 
the following 5 or more and very unequal, the longest undivided 
for 6 cm or more; branchlets fascicled (up to 4 in a fascicle), 
unequal, the longest undivided to up to 1 em, all bearing loosely 
approximate clusters of spikelets; ultimate bracts ovate, cuspi- 
date, acuminate, bright chestnut-brown to fuscous, obscurely 
ciliolate. Spikelets broad-ovate, laterally more or less com- 
pressed, at length more or less open with obliquely spreading 
glumes, about 3.5 mm long, 1- or 2-flowered, chestnut-brown to 
fuscous. Glumes ovate-oblong, acuminate or acute, cuspidate, 
2.5 mm long, very delicately scaberulous and ciliolate, the lower 
2 and the uppermost empty, the intermediate 1 or 2 fertile. 
Perianth none. Stamens 3, filaments much elongated at length, 
filiform, flexuous or in part twisted screw-fashion, remaining 
attached to the base of the nut. Ovary oblanceolate in outline, 
triquetrous, 1.2 mm long; style as long as the ovary, filiform 
from a thickened whitish pubescent base. Stigmas 3, slightly 
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