854 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 46 
aber dureh an zentraler Blattrosette seitlich stehende Halme, 
breitere am Rande nicht weiss-schülferige Blatter, an der Spitze 
des Halms zusammengedrangte Ahrchen und lange Bracteen 
von dieser geschieden. 
Cladium juncoides Elm. n. sp. 
Dense tufts, 4.5 dm. across; stems erect, 6 dm. high, 
Straight, entirely covered by the ensiform leaf bases, ter- 
minated by strict panicles. Leaves copious, much ascending, 
thickly coriaceous, very smooth and similarly glaucous 
green on both sides, gradually tapering to the rather sharp 
point, 7 mm. wide, 3 to 5 dm. long, the margins usually 
brown, the basal portions ensiformly clasping. Panicle 2 
to 3 dm. long, the lower main branches subtended by 
large foliiceous bracts; rachis green, scaberulous especially 
along the striae or on the angles; head clusters scattered, 
erect, sheathingly subtended by brown bracts; spikelets few 
in each cluster, 2 to 3-flowered, the uppermost flower 
sterile; bracts imbricately folded, ovately or oblongish lan- 
ceolate, brown scaberulous on the exposed portions, scabrid 
along the dorsal keel, acuminately pointed; ovary glabrate, 
compressed, bearing a whitish dense tuft of soft hairs; style 
2 mm long, glabrate; stigma lobes 3, reddish brown, curvingly 
spreading, finely puberulent, as long asthe style; stamen 1, aris- 
ing from the base of the ovary, its glabrous filament 4 mm. 
long; anther linearly oblong, 2.5 mm. long, basifixed, 
truncate at base, terminated by an abrupt rather sharp 
point; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 12150, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt, 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 
1910. à 
This fine species was discovered in wet sand gravelly 
soil among rocky deposite along the Pauala river at 750 
feet. ‘‘Magod-tangiad’’ is the Visayan name. 
Vegetatively very similar to Cladiwm (Baumea) meyenii 
Kth., but there seems to be only one stamen in our flow- 
ers. 
