244. DR. O, STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU. 
rudimentum 3-lobum, nigrum. Flos femineus: Perianthium exterius segmentis 
distinetis spathulato-cuneatis, superne navicularibus, apice pilosis, 13 lin. longis, 
interius stipite nudo distans segmentis albis spathulatis dense albo-villosis, glandulá 
nigrà notatum. Ovarium sessile; styli exserti. Semen ellipsoideum vel subglobosum, 
2 lin. longum. 
Maripari Spur, from 5000 to 5500 feet (Low, Burbidge; Haviland, 1153); Tembu- 
rungo, from 7500 to 7700 feet (Haviland, 1153 (bis), 1204). 
Distribution: North Borneo ; Tonkin (?). 
Closely allied to Eriocaulon subcaulescens, Hook. fil., from Ceylon, but differing in the 
very short stem, the generally broader leaves, which are also more rigid and obtuse, in 
the darker heads, the less copious indumentum of the bracts and flowers, and the less 
unequal lobes of the inner male perianth, which does not very much exceed the outer, by 
which it is enveloped almost entirely. This is also compressed from the back and slit to the 
base in front, but otherwise connate to 4 at least. The specimens collected on Kinabalu 
are all very uniform, but those of Balansa from l'Ile Verte, east of the bay of Fi-Tsi-Long 
in Tonkin (246), have somewhat larger heads, a more copious indumentum, and a longer 
middle lobe in the inner male perianth, thus approaching FE. subcaulescens, and I am 
not quite sure whether it can really be referred to E. Hookerianum. On the other hand, a 
specimen collected by Beccari in Sarawak (2420) agrees perfectly with the Kinabalu plant. 
CYPERACEZ. 
SCIRPUS INUNDATUS, Sprengel, Syst. i. 207. 
At 11,000 feet (Haviland, 1397). 
Distribution: North Borneo; Australia from Queensland to Tasmania ; Norfolk Island ; 
New Zealand. 
SCIRPUS CLARKEI, Stapf, n. sp. Ceespitosus, 4—2 ped. altus, gracilis. Rhizoma breve, 
dense fibrosum, culmos numerosos, dense fasciculatos, edens. Culmi 3-2 ped. alti, 
teretes, sulcato-striati, tenues, crassiores, vix, + lin. dimetientes, ad 2-4 poll. vaginati. 
. Folia inferiora ad vaginas tenuiter striatas, fuscescentes, arcte culmo adpressas, oblique 
truncatas, mucrone 3-12 lin. longo superatas redacta, summum interdum longe 
vaginans laminá subulatá 3-1 poll. longá, plus minusve plicatá, marginibus serrato- 
denticulatis. Spiculz solitaria, oblongse, lineares, 3-4 lin. longæ, pauci- vel ad 
8-floræ ; bracteze paucee (interdum 5), infimee vacuse, ceetere fertiles. Bractea infima 
a ceeteris internodio distincto remota, late rotundata, in mucronem brevem viridem in 
margine scabrum excurrens, sequentes inter se «equales, ovato-oblongze, 14-12 lin. 
longee, obtuse vel subobtusze, muticz, pallide castaneze, carinatee, cariná viridi. 
Perianthii setze tenuissime, flexuosze, 1-14 lin. longæ, breviter parceque papillosee, 6 
(an semper?). Stamina 3; filamenta linearia, lj lin. longa; anthers vix 3 lin. 
iong:, in floribus superioribus plus minusve redactee. Stylus in floribus inferioribus 
ad i-i, in superioribus ultra medium in ramos 3 stigmatosos, filiformes fissus. 
Caryopsis cinereo-fusca, obovato-oblonga vel oblonga, ad 1 lin. longa, apice subito 
. apieulata, dorso convexa, leviter carinata, facie subplana. 
At 11,000 feet (Haviland, 1398). 
