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nearly glabrous ; style shortly 2-ficl, tliinly hairy in the lower half. 

 Cap8ide -5 in. long, linear-oblong, glabrate, with 10 seeds. 

 Siamese States : Songkah, Curtis. 



5. Gymnostachyum simplicicaule, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Slightly pube- 

 scent. Stem 1 to 2 ft. long, undivided (in any example seen). Leaves : 

 blade 3 by 1 in., elliptic, obtusely triangular at either end, entire; 

 nerves 5 to 6 pairs, obscure ; petioles "25 to -5 in. long. Panicle ter- 

 minal, few-flowered, reduced almost to an oblong spike ; peduncle 

 hardly 1 in. long ; bracts minute. Sepals hardly -125 in. long, linear. 

 Corolla hardly -5 in. long, gTey-yellow, 2-lipped. Stamens 2 ; filaments 

 glabrous ; anther-cells 2, narrowly oblong, parallel, nearly at equal 

 height, muticous ; pollen 30 by 15 /x, narrowly ellipsoid ; stopples 2, 

 longitudinally obscurely ribbed. Style upwards glabrous, very shortly 

 bifid at tip. 



Perak: alt. 3000 to 3500 ft.. King's Collector 893, 935, 2394; 

 Scortechini 688. 



6. Gymnostachyum hietistylum, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Glabrate, the 

 inflorescence pubescent. Stems nearly a foot high, simple, decumbent, 

 rooting at the base. Leaves opposite, equal ; blade elliptic-acute, 4 by 

 2 in., without rhaphides ; base broadly cuneate; nerves 6 to 7 pairs; 

 petioles -2 in. long. Liflorescence of 2 terminal, simple, linear, slender, 

 interrupted, ebracteate spikes ; peduncles '5 to 1 in. long ; flower- 

 clusters of 1 to 2 flowers, opposite, the lower pairs distant. Sepals 

 hardly -125 in., linear. Corolla white, very smaU, with a short tube. 

 Stamens 2 ; anther-cells 2, at equal height, not tailed ; pollen very 

 shortly ellipsoid. Style hairy ; tip shortly bifid. 



Peeak: alt. 400 to 600 ft., King's Collector 10814. 



7. Gymnostachyum magis-neevatum, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Almost 

 glabrous. Stem 12 to 18 in., decumbent, rooting near the base, branched. 

 Leaves opposite, equal ; blade 3'5 by 1*3 in., elliptic-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate at either end ; nerves 9 to 11 pairs, obHque ; both surfaces with 

 rhaphides, the lower also densely, minutely dotted ; petioles '2 in. long. 

 Peduncles terminal, hardly -5 in. long. Spikes 2-5 in. long, simple ; 

 flowers 12 to 20, opposite ; bracts minute. Sepals hardly -1 in. long, 

 lanceolate, nearly glabrous. Corolla -5 in. long, very narrow, cream- 

 colom'ed, 2-lipped nearly half-way down. Stamens 2 ; filaments gla- 

 brous ; anther-cells 2, rather large, oblong, at equal height, muticous ; 

 pollen 40 by 25 jx, with 10 strong longitudinal ribs. Pistil glabrous ; 

 ovules 8 or more. 



Peeak : alt. 100 ft.. King's Collector 6542. 



8. Gymnostachyum knoxiifolium, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Nearly gla- 

 brous, except the minutely pubescent inflorescence. Stem erect, with long 



