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LlPOCAKPHA DEBILIS, Eicll., SJ^. IIOV. 



Planta debilis, gracillima, 27 cm. alta. C^ilmi siuguli vel bini, teretes, basi 

 vaginis 1-2 rufescentibus, superne folio unico longo lineari angustissimo 15 cm. 

 longo 1 mm. lato instructi. Capitulmn solitarium, album, 5 mm. longum, ovoideum, 

 bractea altera lineari 6 mm. longa patente, altera erecta 8 cm. longa. SpiculcB 

 plures. GlumcB exteriores lanceolatiB, basi angustatee, apice svxbacutee, baud 

 recurVcE, 1 mm. longte, albae, carina viridi; glumse interiores breves, lauceolatse, 

 convolutte. Stamina 2, antheris longis rubris liuearibus ecristatis. Sti/lns vix 

 glumas superans ; stigmata 2, brevia, rubra. Caryopsis elongata, curva, cylindrica, 

 erostrata. 



Camp VI c, 5500 ft. 



Allied to L. mlcroceplmla, Kuntb, Init witli no recurved point to tlie glumes, and is a 

 mucb weaker and more slender plant. 



Cladium; sinuatum, Ridl., sp. nov. 



Serba magna, csespitosa, 50 cm. alta, radicibns validis. CaiiJes complanati. Folia 

 disticha, ensiformia, elongata, coriacea, 35 cm. longa, 4 mm. lata, acuta, vix 

 pungentia. Injloresceniice terminales atque, ex axillis foliorum superiorum, 

 quam folia breviores sinuatae, ramis circiter 4 cm. longis costatis, vagina magna, 

 basi costata. Capitula 3-4 mm. longa et fere aequilata. Spiculce plures, floribus 

 3-4. Gluma exterior lanceolata, acuta, cuspidata, ruf a, cilifita; interiores 3, ovatte, 

 marginibus et carina ciliatis. Stamina tria. Ovmmim trigonum. Stylus gracilis, 

 rufas, stigmata 3. Caryopsis ovoidea, triquetra, rugosa, rostro conico aequilongo 

 albo-sericeo. 



Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 



Perhaps near to C. collides, Lauterb., but the style is not hairy and the nut rugose 

 and smaller, and the leaves much narrower. 



Claditjm 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. 

 Listrib. Philippines. 



SCHCENUS APOGON, Eoem. & Schult. Syst. t. 2, 77. 

 Camps XIII to XIV, 10,500 to 12,500 ft. 

 Bistinb. Australia, Borneo, Luchu Islands. 



Hypolytetjm paryibracteatum, C. B. Clarke, in Kew Bull. (1889) 114. 



Camps I to VI, 500 to 3900 ft. 



Evidently a common plant, originally collected on Mt. Scratcbley, and also in the 

 Solomon Islands. It is a much larger plant than H. proliferum, Boeck., to which it is 

 allied, but with much larger leaves, and somewhat variable in size. 



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