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Chiengmai, 300 in., cultivated, used for basket work, Kerr 9 1857 ; 

 Bangkok, Schomburgk, 130, Zimmermann, 46. 

 Distr. S. E. Asia. ^ 

 Lao name, Dawk Yeng (ex Kerr). 

 Lhmax arundastrum^ Hosseus, ii. p. 374, may also be this plant. 



Phrynium capitatum, IVilld. F.B.I., vi. p w 258, in part ; K. 

 Schum., Engler Pflanzenr., Marant., p. 53 ; Williams, Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss., iv. (1904) p. 361. 



Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, on marshy ground in evergreen jungle, 

 660 m., Kerr, 1799. 



Distr. India, China, Indo-China, Malay Archipelago. 



Halopegia brachystachys, Craib, sp. n., ab H. macrostachya, K. 

 Schum., bracteis multo minoribus facile distinguenda. 



Herba circiter semimetralis. Folia oblonga vel late oblonga, 

 apice abrupte acuminata, acuta, basi rotundata vel cuneato- 

 rotundata, 12-21 cm. longa, 5*5-9 cm. lata, supra glabra, subtus 

 parcissime pubescentia, petiolo ad 13 cm. longo parte suprema 

 incrassata ad T3 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 strigosum. Caryopsis cylindrica, 

 8 mm. longa, 3*5 mm. diametro, monosperma. 



Meh Ping, Kampeng, in mixed jungle, Ken-, 2030. 



To this species probably also belongs the plant collected in 

 Rangoon by Scott which is included under Phrynium spicatum in 

 the Flora of British India and under Stackyphrynium spicatum by 

 K. Schumann in his monograph of the Marantaceae in Engler's 

 Pflanzenreich. The writer has not seen the plant collected at 

 Pahombuk by Hosseus and referred by him (ii. p. 374) to 

 Stachyphrynium spicatum. 



IKIDACEAE. 



Iris Collettii, Hook. f. 1. nepalensis, forma depauperata, Coll. et 

 Hemsl., Journ. Linn. Soc., xxviii. p. 136. 



Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, in deciduous jungle, 480-750 m., 

 Kerr, 656. 



Distr. Upper Burma, Yunnan. 



Part of this collection is typical in having the leaves quite small 

 at the flowering stage, whereas part also in the flowering stage 

 has leaves up to 48 cm. long. 



AMARYLLIDACEAE. 



Hypoxis aurea, Lour. F.B.I., vi. p. 277 ; Coll. et Hemsl., Journ. 

 Linn. Soc., xxviii. p. 136 ; Williams, Bull. Herb. Boi^s., iv. (1904) 

 p. 230, 



Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, among grass in open jungle, 1200- 

 1500 m., Kerr, 1280. 



Distr. S.E. Asia. 



