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Labuan, Schlechter 13221; Dutch Borneo, Winkler 3358; 



British North Borneo, Gibbs 2597, 2602 bis, Clemens 95951 



96981, Topping 14781, 1938\ Haslaml India to Indo-China and 

 Java. 



6. Eriocaulon xeranthemum Mart, in Wall. PI. As. Rar. 3 

 (1832) 29; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 42 (1914) 172. 

 British North Borneo, Gibbs 3077. India to Penang. 



Bromeliaceae. 



1. Ananas comosus (Linn.) Merr. Interpret. Herb. Amb. 

 (1917) 133. Ananas safiVus Schultes f.; Beccari Nelle Foreste di 

 Borneo (1912) 599. 

 The pineapple, a native of tropical America, now pantropic. 



Pontederiaceae. 



1. Monochoria hastata (Linn.) Solms in DC. Monog. Phan. 

 4 (1883) 523. Monochoria hastaefolia Presl; Rendle in Journ. 

 Bot. 39 (1901) 177; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 42 (1914) 

 166. 



Sarawak, Hose 508\; British North Borneo, Gibbs 4343. India 

 to China and Malaya. 



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2. Monochoria vaginalis (Burm.) Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 

 (1827) 128; Winkler in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 44 (1910) 526. 



Dutch Borneo, Winkler; Sarawak, Native collector 846 \ Bur. 

 Sci. Tropical Africa and Asia to Japan and Malaya. 



1. Eichornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms in DC. Monog. Phan. 

 4 (1883) 527; Winkler in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 44 (1910) 527. 



Dutch Borneo, Winkler 3123, Foxworthy 540\ A native of 

 South America now widely distributed in the tropics of both 

 hemispheres. 



Commelinaceae. 



1. Pollia elegans Hassk. ex Hallier f. in Beihefte Bot. 

 Centralbl. 3412 (1916) 51. Aclisia elegans Hassk. in Miq. PI. 

 Jungh. (1851) 49. 



Dutch Borneo, Korthals, Winkler 2677. India to the Sunda 

 Islands; considered by C. B. Clarke as a variety (var. indica) of 

 Pollia sorzogonensis Endl. 



2. Pollia pumila Hallier f. in Beihefte Bot. Centralbl. 34|2 

 (1916) 52. 



Dutch Borneo, Neuwenhiiis 764, 520, 395. Endemic. 



