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crassus.  Bracte@e involucrales 3-4, maxima 62 cm. longa, 1 em. lata, foliis similes. 
Umbelle radii circiter 16, 17 cm. longe, graciles simplices vel raro apice breviter 
ramosi, ad apices spiculas 3-5 ferentes. Vagine ad basin radiorum tubulose, 
6 mm. longs, laminis brevibus lanceolatis. Spicule 8-10 mm. longe, L5 em. 
latz, rufescenti-flave. Glwme anguste lineares, oblonge, truncate, carinis sæpe 
in mucronem minutum extensis. Stylus brevis, vix e gluma protrusus; stigmata 
purpurea. 
Camp VI, 4400 ft. 
Allied to Cyperus Babakan, Steud., but with much more extended umbels, more slender 
spikelets, narrower and blunter glumes, and different foliage. All the specimens are in 
flower, and I have seen no ripe fruit. 
CYPERUS PLATYPHYLLOS, Ridl., sp nov. 
Folia 2-A, lanceolata, linearia, longe acuminata, versus basin angustata, vaginantia, 
tenuia, ad 32 cm. longa, 1°5 em. lata, trinervia, costa elevata, nervis gracilibus. 
Spice 4, sessiles vel subsessiles, in capitulum condensate. Bractee involucrales 
foliis similes, maxima 30 cm. longa, 1:5-2 em. lata. Spice plures in capitulis 
1 em. longis subglobosis pallide brunneis, inferiores sepe pedunculis 1 em. longis 
suffultze.  Spicule plures, dense, 5 mm. longe, breviter pedunculate. Bracteæe 
basales, lanceolate, acuminate, costate. Glume lanceolate, acuminate, ad 
margines tenuiores, costata. Anthere oblonge, breviter extrusæ, pallide brunnez. 
Stylus quam ipe vix longior, ruber, stigmatibus brevibus 3.  Caryopsis ellip- 
soidea, triquetra, $ longitudinis glume equans, brunnea, facie interiore latiore. 
Camp VIb, 5900 ft. 
It is diffieult to suggest an affinity for this | species. The foliage recalls that of 
Cyperus diffusus and other woodland Cyperi. 
MARISCUS CYPERINUS, Vahl, Enum. ii. 377. 
Camp III, 2500 ft. 
Distrib. Eastern tropics. 
SCIRPUS CHINENSIS, Munro, in Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald,’ 433 
Camps IX to X, 5500 to 6700 ft. 
Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 
FIMBRISTYLIS DIPHYLLA, Vahl, Enum. ii. 209. 
Camps IV to VI, 1100 to 2100 ft. A slender form. 
Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
FIMBRISTYLIS POLYTRICHOIDES, R. Br. Prodr. 226. 
Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 
A very slender grassy form, over a foot tall, with small slender spikes. 
Distrib. Indo-Malaya, Australia. 
