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crassus. Bradece involucrales 3-4, maxima 62 cm. longa, 1 cm. lata, foliis similes. 

 UmbellcB radii circiter 16, 1*7 cm. longse, graciles siinplices vel raro apice breviter 

 ramosi, ad apices spiculas 3-5 ferentes. Var/ince ad basin radiorixm tubulosa?, 

 6 mm. longse, laminis brevibus lanceolatis. Sjnculce 8-10 mm. longte, I'O cm. 

 latse, rufescenti-flavae. Glnmce anguste lineares, oblongse, truncatse, carinis ssepe 

 in mucronem minutum extensis. Stylus brevis, vix e gluma protrusus; stigmata 

 purpurea. 

 Camp VI 5, 4400 ft. 

 Allied to Cypcrns Bahakan, Steud., but with much more extended umbels, more slender 



spikelets, narrower and bkinter glumes, and different foliage. AH tlie specimens are in 



flower, and I have seen no ripe fruit. 



CXPERUS PLATTPHTLLOS, Eidl., Sp nov. 



Folia 2-4, lanceolata, linearia, longe acuminata, versus basin angastata, vaginantia, 

 tenuia, ad 32 cm. longa, I'o cm. lata, trinervia, costa elevata, nervis gracilibus. 

 Spicce 4, sessiles vel su.bsessiles, in capitulum condensatse. Bractece involucrales 

 foliis similes, maxima 30 cm. longa, l'5-2 cm. lata. Spicce j^lures in capitulis 

 1 cm, longis subglobosis palliJe brunneis, inferiores ssepe pedunculis 1 cm. longis 

 suffultse. Spiculce plures, densse, 5 mm. longee, breviter pedunculatse. Bractece 

 basales, lanceolatae, acuminata^, costatse. Glumce lanceolatse, acuminatie, ad 

 margines teuuiores, costatse. Antherce dhloxis;^, breviter extrusse, pallide brunneee. 

 Stylus quam gluma vix longior, ruber, stigmatibus brevibus 3. Caryopsis ellip- 

 soidea, triquetra, f longitudinis glumse sequans, brunnea, facie interiore latiore. 



Camp VI b, 3900 ft. 



It is difficult to suggest an affinity for this species. The foliage recalls that of 

 Cyperiis diffusiis and other woodland Cyperi. 



Mariscus cyperinus, Vahl, Enum. ii. 377. 

 Camp III, 2500 ft. 

 Bistrib. Eastern tropics. 



SciRPTTs CHiNENSis, Munro, in Seem. Bot. Voy. ' Herald,' 433 

 Camps IX to X, 5500 to 6700 ft. 

 Bistrib. Malay Archipelago. 



FiMBRiSTYLis DIPHTLLA, Vahl, Enum. ii. 209. 



Camps IV to VI, 1100 to 2100 ft. A slender form. 

 Bistrib, Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



FiMBRiSTYLis POLTTRICHOIDES, E. Br. Prodr. 226. 

 Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 



A very slender grassy form, over a foot tall, with small slender spikes. 

 Bistrib. Indo-Malaya, Australia. 



