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LIPOCARPHA DEBILIS, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Planta debilis, gracillima, 27 cm. alta. Culmi singuli vel bini, teretes, basi 
vaginis 1-2 rufescentibus, superne folio unico longo lineari angustissimo 15 cm. 
longo 1 mm. lato instructi. Capitulum solitarium, album, 5 mm. longum, ovoideum, 
bractea altera lineari 6 mm. longa patente, altera erecta 8 cm. longa. Spicule 
plures. Glume exteriores lanceolate, basi angustate, apice subacute, haud 
recurve, 1 mm. longe, albe, carina viridi; glume interiores breves, lanceolate, 
convolutz. Stamina 2, antheris longis rubris linearibus ecristatis. Stylus vix 
glumas superans; stigmata 2, brevia, rubra. Caryopsis elongata, curva, cylindrica, 
erostrata. 
Camp VIe, 5500 ft. 
Allied to L. microcephala, Kunth, but with no recurved point to the glumes, and is a 
much weaker and more slender plant. 
CLADIUM SINUATUM, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Herba magna, ceespitosa, 50 cm. alta, radicibus validis. Caules complanati. Folia 
disticha, ensiformia, elongata, coriacea, 35 cm. longa, 4 mm. lata, acuta, vix 
pungentia. Inflorescentie terminales atque, ex axillis foliorum superiorum, 
quam folia breviores sinuate, ramis circiter 4 cm. longis costatis, vagina magna, 
basi costata. Capitula 3-4 mm. longa et fere equilata. Spicule plures, floribus 
3-4. Gluma exterior lanceolata, acuta, cuspidata, rufa, ciliata; interiores 3, ovate, 
marginibus et carina ciliatis. Stamina tria. Ovarium trigonum. Stylus gracilis, 
rufus, stigmata 3. Caryopsis ovoidea, triquetra, rugosa, rostro conico squilongo 
albo-sericeo. 
Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 
Perhaps near to C. colpodes, Lauterb., but the style is not hairy and the nut rugose 
and smaller, and the leaves much narrower. 
CLADIUM FALCATUM, C. B. Clarke MSS.; Baumea falcata, Nees, in Hook. Kew Journ. 
vi. (1854) 29. 
Camps XIII to XIV, 10,500 to 12,500 ft. 
Distrib. Philippines. 
ScHENUS APOGON, Roem. & Schult. Syst. t. 2, 77. 
Camps XIII to XIV, 10,500 to 12,500 ft. 
Distrib. Australia, Borneo, Luchu Islands. 
HyPOLYTRUM PARVIBRACTEATUM, C. B. Clarke, in Kew Bull. (1889) 114. 
Camps I to VI, 500 to 3900 ft. 
Evidently a common plant, originally collected on Mt. Scratchley, and also in the 
Solomon Islands. It isa much larger plant than H. proliferum, Boeck., to which it is 
allied, but with much larger leaves, and somewhat variable in size. i 
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