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unarmed; branches 4, about 15 cm. long with 8-13; flower- 

 spikes slender, spreading, 5 cm. long. Spathels i cm. longer, 

 less tubular with an acuminate limb. Spathellules ovate, cup- 

 shaped with a long point, ribbed. Bracts ovate, short. 

 Calyx wide, cup-shaped, obscurely 3-lobed with obtuse lobes. 

 Petals 3 cm., oblong, striate. At 4,000 feet. 



Allied to C. Diepenhorstii, Miq. var. singaporcnsis but 

 almost completely unarmed. The specimens show no flagella 



Araceae. 



170. Arisaema Roxburghii, Kunth. At 3,500 to 4,200 

 feet. 



171. Homalonena pwnila, Hook fil. A variety with the 

 leaves hardly pustulate. At 4,500 feet. 



Cyperace^. 



172. Kyllinga hrevifolia, Rottb. At 4,000 feet. 



173. Finibristylis globulossi, Kunth. At 3,000 feet. 



174. Hypolytrum latifolium, Rich. At 3,500 feet. 



175. Gahnia javanica, Mor. 5,500 to 6,600 feet. 



176. Gahnia castanea sp. nov. 



Large tufted plant. Leaves with a broad (2 cm. wide) 

 shining purplish-brown, sheathing base, gradually narrowing 

 to a filiform point 100 cm. long. Panicle 45 cm. long, with 

 spikelets borne on sleuder scabrid peduncles, about 50 from 

 the axil of a long leafy bract, 2-3 cm. long, with 5 or 6 

 spikelets towards the apex. Glumes lanceolate, mucronate, 

 chestnut-red, lower one tubular at the base, enclosing 2 or 3 

 branchlets. Spikelets one-flowered 4 mm. long with imbricate 

 glumes. Stamens 3, with very long filaments, and linear 

 long-acuminate anthers. Ovary cylindric, style very long, 

 black with three long filiform stigmatic arms. 



This species is very different from G. javanica in having 

 fewer glumes ; the flower certainly appears terminal. 



177. Lepidosperma chinense, Nees. At 6,600 feet. 

 Occurs also on Mt. Ophir and Gunong Tahan. 



178. Carex Walkeri, Arn. At 6,600 feet elevation. 



A fine addition to our flora, and very fine specimens. 

 The glumes in this form are very conspicuously scarious at 

 the tip. 



Native of South India, Ceylon and Java and the 

 Philippines. 



179. Scleria radula, Hance. At 4,200 feet elevation. 



