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connate for most of their length. Corolla hardly longer; 

 lobes 3, very unequal, one twice as long as the other two, all 

 crested with white hairs. Stamens with pale whitish 

 filaments; anthers rather large, black, little longer than the 

 shorter perianth-lobes. Female flower: sepals as in the male. 

 •Petals free to base, linear, with long white hairs all over. 

 Capsule trilobed, globose. Seed oblong, obtuse at both ends. 

 Style elongate, slender. 



In damp spots on the Padang. 



Certainly near E. macrophyllnm, Ruhl., from description, 

 but the unequal male petals are those of E. Hookerianiun, and 

 the leaves are always shorter than the culm. 



CYPERACE^. 



267. SciRPUS Clarkei, Stapf. Abundant in cracks of 

 rocks in the streams on the Padang. This slender sedge forms 

 good-sized tufts in the rapid torrents, the culms being often 

 pendent ui the water. I find the nut distinctly trigonous and 

 narrowed at the base, dilated upwards, where it ends abruptly 

 in a short beak, the style base. Stapf describes it as "obovato 

 oblongo dorso convexo leviter carinata, facie subplana. " 



It was first obtained in Kinabalu by Haviland, and has 

 not been found elsewhere. 



268. ACTINOSCHCENUS FILIFORMIS, Beilth VAT. RUPESTRIS. 



A dwarf tufted form, 6 inches tall, with very slender erect 

 stems and capitula hardly an inch across. 



Common on one or two of the rocky slopes between the 

 Camp stream and the top of Gunong Tahan. I have the same 

 form from Gunong Dai in Lingga, collected by Mr. Hullett, 

 and from the top of Ben Karum in Sarawak by C. J. Brooks. 



The usual form of the species has long pendent or weak 

 stems often twice as thick as in this and has larger capitula. 

 This form occurs in Hongkong, Ceylon, and the Karimon and 

 St. Barbe Islands, the waterfall, Taiping, Mt. Ophir, Penang. 

 Hill, and Kedah Peak. 



269. Cladium pulchrum, n. sp. 



Rhizome short, woody; base of stem swollen, covered with 

 broad red-brown sheaths. Leaves coriaceous, linear, obtuse, 

 narrowed upwards, base dilated, margins denticulate, scabrid 

 or smooth, 6 to 9 inches long, j^2 ^"^h broad, dilated, base J 

 inch wide. Inflorescence 10 to 14 inches tall; peduncle 

 glaucous, terete. Panicle bracts at the base i inch long, 

 narrowly linear, base dilated, sheathing, deep red. Rachis 

 flexuous. Branches few, 6 or 7, about half an inch long, 

 crowded spikelets on short angled peduncles. Lower glumes 

 empty, 3, two basal, broadly lanceolate, cuspidate, strongly- 

 nerved, red; upper much longer, more narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, dark red, fertile; glume lanceolate, as long as the 

 previous one. Stamens 3; filaments linear; anthers narrow, 

 linear, yellow. St}'le long. Stigmas 3. Bristles 3, narrowed 

 upwards, pubescent, half as long as the nut. Nut (not ripe) 

 narrowed into the style. 



