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Inflorescentia gracilis, pedunculo pubescente, foliis 2 parvis remotis. Flores pauci, | 
albi, purpureo-tincti; panicula 6 em. longa (fructifera ad 4 cm. longa), ramis 
verticillatis 2-5 mm. longis albo-pubescentibus et ciliatis, pedicellis longiusculis. 
Bractee patentes, lineares, oblonge, obtuse. Bracleole ovate. Sepala ovata, 
obtusa, 2 mm. longa, glabra. Petala lineari-oblonga, 4 mm. longa, glabra. 
Stamina 3, petalis subzequilonga. Staminodia 3, breviora, omnia glabra. Ovarium 
globosum. Stylus petalis equilongus. Bacca ellipsoidea, cyanea, nitida, 7 mm. 
longa. Semina plura, complanata, tenuia, angulata, brunnea. 
Canoe Camp, 150 ft., and Camps VILI to X, 4900 to 6700 ft. Also on Mt. Scratchley, 
at 4000 ft. (Macgregor in Herb. Kew.). 
Allied to P. sorzogonensis, differing in the verticillate branches and long silky 
pedicels. 
POLLIA SORZOGONENSIS, Endl. Gen. 1029. 
Camps I to III, 500 to 2500 ft. 
Distrib. Tropical Asia. 
COMMELINA NUDIFLORA, Linn. Sp. PI. 41. 
Camps III to VIII, 2500 to 4900 ft. 
Distrib. All warm countries. 
FORRESTIA HISPIDA, Rich. Sert. Astrol. 2, t. 1. 
Canoe Camp, 150 ft. 
** Purple orange." 
Distrib. Endemic in New Guinea. 
JUNCACE. 
(By H. N. RipLEY.) 
JUNCUS LAMPROCARPUS, Ehrh. Calam. 126, fide Davies, in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. (1810) 13. 
Camp VI 5, 3900 ft., on the side of a ridge. 
This is a weak spreading green form with oblong fruit pale yellowish in colour, and 
no longer than the petals. The same form occurs in China and the Philippines. Ifind 
no allusion to it in Buchenau's Juncacez, published in Engl. Pflanzenreich, H. 25. 
FLAGELLARIACEZ. 
(By H. N. RIDLEY.) 
— FLAGELLARIA INDICA, Linn. Sp. PI. 333. 
Camps III, 2500 ft., VI 4, 3900 ft., and VI c, 5500 ft. 
Var. MINOR, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 391. 
Camps I to III, 500 to 2500 ft. 
Distrib. (of species). Tropics of the Old World. ; 
It is not usual to find this plant so far inland nor at such an altitude as 2500 ft., it 
being usually a seashore plant. 
