518 PLANTS 



PiNAGA Blume . 

 PiNAGA GRACILLIMA sp. nov. § Orthostichanthe. 



Trunco gracili, circiter 4 mm diametro ; foliis 15 ad 23 cin 

 longis, profiinde bifidis, subcoriaceis, lobis 12 ad 16 cm longis, 

 1.3 ad 2 cm latis, glabris, longitiidinaliter 5-vel 6-plicatis, apice 

 breviter lobatis, lobis oblongo-ovatis ad lanceolatis, rigidis, 

 acutis vel acuminatis, 5 ad 10 mm longis; petiolo fnrfnraceo. 

 circiter 2 cm longo, vaginis, 5 ad 8 mm diametro, jniiioribus 

 furfuraceis, vetustioribus glaberrimis ; spathis ignotis ; spadicis 

 circiter 13 cm longis, pedunculo vox 3 cm longo, circiter 3 mm 

 diametro, ramis 3, gracilis ciciter 9 cm longis, patulis ; 

 frnctibus distantibns, 2-rectiserialiter dispostis, oblongo-ellip- 

 soideis vel lanceolato-ellipsoideis, circiter 14 mm longis, 5 mm 

 diametro, utrinque sub-aeqnaliter angnstatis, apice acntis vel 

 brevissime obtuseqne rostratis. 



Mount Poi, E. Mjoberg s.n., altitude about 1500 m. 



A species remarkable for its small bifid leavs and very slendei- 

 trunks, the maximum diameter of the latter in the specimen 

 before me being 4 mm. Its alliance is with Pinamia niirabilis 

 Becc. and P. tomentella Becc. 



AKACEAE. 



HOMALOMBNA Schott . 



HoMALOMENA PALUDOSA Hook. f., Merr. Enum. Born. PI. 

 (1921) 95. 



Kuching, No. 166, at low altitudes. Malay Peninsula. 



EKIOCAULACEAE . 



Eriocaulon Linnaeus. 



Eriocaulon hookerrianum Stapf ; Merr. Enum. Born. PI. 

 (1921) 110. 



Mount Poi, No. 128, altitude about 1500 m. Previously 

 known only from Mount Kinabalu, British Nortli Borneo. 



■Eriocaulon longifolium Nees ; Merr. I.e. 



Near Kuching, No. 211, Ceylon to Madagascar, south ein 

 Qhina, and Malaysia. 



