DR, O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU, 247 
rata; rami ramulique fere leves. Glumz vacuæ subæquales, 15713 lin. longee, 
florens 1 lin. longa, rigidior, ex medio vel paulo supra aristata; arista 12 lin. longa. 
At 18,000 feet (Haviland, 1399). 
Distribution (of species): Europe, with the exception of the Mediterranean province ; 
Caucasus and N.E. Asia Minor; Southern Siberia to Kashmir and Sikkim: North 
America from Greenland to the North-eastern States; Aleutian Islands to Sitka; 
Falkland Islands and Southern Patagonia; New Zealand and Campbell Island. 
I have very carefully compared this grass with the numerous varieties of Agrostis 
canina, but I have not been able to identify it exactly with any one of them. It 
certainly approaches nearest the variety which was originally described as 4. falklandica 
by Sir J. Hooker, and a form collected by Colenso in New Zealand (no. 4142), so far as 
the general habit is concerned. But it has decidedly larger spikelets, with a more rigid 
flowering glume than the former, whilst the awnless spikelets of the latter are 2 lin. 
long. The form found in the Sikkim Himalaya deviates more in the habit and in the 
small awnless flowering glume. 
DEYEUXIA EPILEUCA, Stapf, n. sp. (Pl. XX. c. 10-16.) Gramen perenne, ceespitosum, 
13-2 poll. altum. Culmi floriferi atque innovationes intravaginales basi arcte vagi- 
nati, illi (lemum quidem) a medio vel ultra nudi, hee minute pubescentes. Foliorum 
vagina glabra, prominenter striata, ligula obsoleta, lamina linearis plana vel in statu 
juvenili vel humefacta plicata, 3-12 poll. longa, 1-2 lin. lata, obtusiuscula, in mar- 
ginibus scabridula, supra albo-glauca, subtus pallide viridis, vix glaucescens, prseter 
nervum medium carinatim prominentem nervis utrinque 3-4 plus minusve prominulis 
percursa. Panicula parva, oblongo-ovata, 3-6 lin. longa, vix 3 lin. lata vel anguste 
contracta; ramuli breves, pauciflori, stricti, dense hispiduli; pedicelli interdum 
brevissimi. Spicule 1-floree; rhachilla glabra ultra florem in setam glabram strictam 
i lin. longam producta. Glume vacue 2, ovatz, a latere compresse, carinat:e, 
acute, in cariná hispidulz vel glabratee, nervis lateralibus abbreviatis, seepe indis- 
tinctis, utrinque 1, rarius 2, superior paulo longior, j-$ lin. longa; florens oblique 
oblonga, 1 lin. vel paulo ultra longa, obtuse subcarinata, levissima, subcartilaginea, 
trinervis, nervis lateralibus sub margine paulo inflexo fere ad apicem ductis, s:epe 
nervulis tenuissimis, utrinque 1, interjectis. Palea «sequilonga obtuse subcarinata, 
levissima, dorso profunde sulcata. Lodicule 2 ad medium connatz, æquales vel 
subzequales, ovario paulo breviores. Stamina 3; anther: vix $ lin. longee. Ovarium 
ovoideum ; styli breves, distincti; stigmata plumosa. Caryopsis oblonga, subobliqua, 
gluma paleáque inclusa, libera, $ lin. longa; hilum basale, obliquum. 
At 10,5000 feet (Haviland, 1401). 
This is a very marked species, the affinity of which lies rather with some Australian 
species than with any others, though it is far from being closely connected. "The general 
habit is like that of dwarf specimens of D. minor, Benth., but the glumes are smaller and 
much less acute, the flowering glume is firmer and awnless, and the rhachis distinctly 
produced. The spikelets come, perhaps, nearer to those of D. Gunniana, Benth., but this 
is a very delicate and probably annual grass with setaceous leaves, iud 
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