405 
Chiengmai, 300 m., cultivated, used for basket work, Kerr, 1857 ; 
2 Schomburgh 130, Zimmermann, 46, 
Distr. §. E. Asia. 
Lao name, Dawk Yéng (ex Kerr). 
Donax arundastrum, Hosseus, ii, p. 374, rad also Be this Lise 
Phrynium capitatum, V7lld.—¥.B.L, 258, K. 
Schum., Engler Pflanzenr., Marant., p. 53; ” Willimis; Bull. Te rb. 
Boiss., iv. (1904) p- 361. 
iengmai, ae Sootep, on marshy ground in evergreen jungle, 
660 m., Kerr, 1 
Distr. fot, ‘China, Indo-China, Malay Archipelago. 
Halopegia brachystachys, Cra‘b, sp. n., ab H. macrostachya, K. 
chum., bracteis multo minoribus facile distinguenda. 
Herba circiter semimetralis. Folia oblonga vel late a 
apice abrupte acuminata, acuta, basi rotundata vel cun 
rotundata, 12-21 em. longa, 5°5—-9 cm. ee supra glabra, meee 
parcissime pubescentia, petiolo ad 13 cm. longo parte suprema 
incrassata ad 13 cm. longa suffulta, vaginis strigosis et strigoso- 
ciliatis. Inflorescentia in vaginis inclusa, floribus (omnibus in- 
feliciter mancis) albis (ex Kerr) tantum exsertis ; bracteae lanceo- 
latae, acutae, 4:5 cm. longae, 7 mm. latae, utrinque glabrae ; 
flores gemini, breviter pedunculati, altero pedicello alato 5 mm 
longo altero pedicello brevi haud alato suffulto. Sepala duo lanceo- 
lata, acuta, ad 4 mm. longa, dorso parce pubescentia, tertium 
minutum. Ovarium basi apiceque sir ica Caryopsis cylindrica, 
8 mm. longa, 3°5 mm. diametro, monosperm 
Meh Ping, Kampeng, in mixed jungle, Kae 
To this species probably also belongs the aie collected in 
Rangoon by Scott which is included under Phrynium spicatum 
the Flora of British India and under Stachyphrynium spicatum by 
K. Schumann in his monograph of the Marantaceae in Engler’s 
Pflanzenreich. The writer has not seen the ster collected at 
Pahombuk by Hosseus and referred by him (ii. p. 374) to 
Stackyphryntvin spicatum. 
IRIDACEAE, 
Iris Collettii, ts J. 1. nepalensis, forma depauperata, Coll. et 
emsl., Journ, Linn. Soc., xxviii. p. 136. 
Chiengmai, Dot ‘Sootep, in deciduous jungle, 480-750 m., 
Kerr, 656. 
Distr. Upper Burma, Yunn 
Part of this collection is ied | in having the leaves quite small 
at the flowering stage, — part—also in the flowering stage— 
has leaves up to 48 cm. 
AMARYLLIDACEAE. 
Hypoxis aurea, Lour.—F.B.1., i, p. 277; Coll. et Hemsl., Journ. 
Linn. Soe., xxviii. p. 136 ; Willisma, Bull. Herb. Boiss., iv. (1904) 
» 230 
Chiengmai, vee Ce OCSDs among grass in open jungle, 1200- 
1500 m., Kerr 
Distr. S.E. ven 
