DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU, 243 
Distribution: Tropical Himalaya from Nepal eastward, Khasia Hills, Munipore, and 
Burma ; Ceylon; Malaya to the Pacific; Mascarenes. | 
Burbidge’s specimen represents the caulescent form with leaves 1 inch broad and 
glaucous, whilst Haviland's specimens possess leaves not more than 2-31 lin. broad and 
a much shortened stem. In no. 1156 (from an elevation of 7500 feet) the leaves are all 
basal except two very reduced ones on the scape; in the other specimen there are three 
distinet internodes visible, the middle one measuring 7 lines in length. Different as 
the habit of both forms may appear at the first glance, it is evident from the rich 
material which is preserved at Kew that both are only different states of one species. 
It seems that the young branches, which always begin with a “ rosette ” of basal leaves, 
produce flowers sometimes in the first season, but more often in the second, when the 
stem has grown out and the leaves are separated by internodes from 1 to 1 inch, 
PALMA. 
Palms are repeatedly mentioned by the travellers, but there is not a single specimen 
in the Herbarium except an incomplete one of what I take to be a Pinanga, collected 
by Lobb on the lower Tampassuk. Several species are grown near the Dusun 
houses, according to Mr. Burbidge, who mentions specially Cocos nucifera, Linn., 
Pinanga sp., Areca sp., and Oncosperma filamentosum, Blume. Another species of 4reca 
is stated by him to be wild, to measure about 10 feet in height, and to produce clusters 
of red fruits about 4 feet above the ground.  * Rotang palms” seem to be common 
throughout the jungle of both mountain regions. Mr. Burbidge figured two of them 
one apparently a true Calamus and the other a Korthalsia, with the foliage so charac- 
teristic of this genus. The latter was observed near Koung. 
AROIDELE. 
GAMOGYNE BURBIDGEI, N. E. Brown in Journ. Bot. xx. (1882) 195. 
In a ravine near Pakapaka (Burbidge). 
Distribution: North Borneo (Burbidge). 
ERIOCAULACES. 
ERIOCAULON HooKERIANUM, Stapf, n. sp. Caulis perbrevis. Folia densissime congesta, 
e basi latiore linearia, 11-3 poll. longa, basi 2 lin., rarius ad 3 lin. lata, brevissime 
acutata vel obtusa, rigidula, erecta vel subfalcatim recurvata, vix pellucida (nisi in 
statu juvenili vel emarcida), tenuiter fenestrata, nervis circa 19. Scapus 5-7 poll. 
longus, sulcatus. Capitula 3 lin. dimetiens. Bracteæ involucrantes rotundatee 
vel late ovato-rotundate, scariosve, glabre, demum ex apice varie lacere; bracteze 
interiores late obovato-cuneatee, obtusissimee, czeruleo-cinerez, dorso sub apice albo- 
pilose, 14 lin. longæ. Receptaculum villosum. Flores utriusque sexus mixti. Flos 
masculus: Perianthium biseriatum 3-merum; segmenta seriei exterioris a dorso 
compresse antice libera, ceeterum ad 4 connata, obovata, albo-pilosa, 1 lin. longa; 
segmenta seriei interioris exteriore paulo longioris stipitatee tubuloso-campanulate 
albee insequalia, oblonga, sub apice glandulá nigrá notata, intermedium ¿ lin. longum, 
lateralibus vix duplo majus. Stamina 6; filamenta alternatim longiora. Ovarii 
