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I. 753 ; 3Iiq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 334.— Folia lato-lineavia, acumi- 

 natissirna, trinervia, margine costaque spinuloso-serrulata, rigide 

 coriacea ; culmi 1 — l£ pedalia, aphylli, obtuse trigoni ; capitulum 

 oligo-v. polystachyum, compactum, magnum, phyllis 3 — 4 latis 

 squamaeformibus eo ipso brevioribus v. aequilongis involucratum ; 

 squamae lanceolatae, obtusae v. apice dilaceratae, sub-enerviae, char- 

 taceae ; achaenia inaequali-oblonga, styli basi acuminata. 



Var. a. Malesica, capitulis saepe pugni infantis magnitudine, 

 bemisphaericis v. subglobosis, polystacbyis ; spicis autem duplo v. 

 triplo minoribus. 



Var. /?. SilllGtaiia, capitulis irregulari oblongis, e 3 — 9 spicis 

 maximis compositis. 



Hab. — In damp hill forests in Westeim Java frequent, as on Pan- 

 gerango, 3 — 4000' ; on the Salak 4 — 5000' ; var. (3, between rocks and 

 tree stumps, Passir Madang, Probakti, 2—4000' ; Zollinger. Singa- 

 pore : Wall. 3541 (young inflorescence) ; Silhet : Wall. Cat. 4474 

 (var. 0). 



Native names : Bangkonoh or Harassas tjaee in Java. 



Rhizoma crassum, obliquum, radices crassas clemittens. Folia rigide 

 coriacea, trifarie equitantia, lato-linearia, acuminatissima, trinervia, 

 marginibus rectangulariter deviis spinuloso-serrata, subtus in carina 

 basi retrorse scabra, apicem versus spinuloso-serrulata, 6 — 9 ped. 

 longa, \\ — 2 poll, lata, supra atroviridia, nitida, subtus glaucescenti 

 viridia. Culmi 1 — 1^ pedales, deorsum sensim attenuati, obtuse tri- 

 goni, basin versus subteretes, glaucescenti-virides, glabri, sublente 

 albido-punctati. Spicae plurimae elliptico — v. conico-oblongae, £ — 1 

 pollicem paene longae, capitato-conglomeratae, involucratae ; involucri 

 phylla 3 — 4 v. 6—8, squamaeformia, coriacea, e basi latissima oblongo- 

 ovalia, acutata, planiuscula v. concaviuscula, spicularum longitudine 

 eequalia v. vix longiora. Squamae lato-lanceolatae v. lanceolatae, apice 

 obtusae v. saepius dilaceratae, sub-enerviae, laeves, chartaceae, e flaves- 

 cente brunnescentes ; inferiorum nonnullae vacuae ; sequentes spiculam 

 squama breviorem 6-floram androgynam includentes. Flosculi omnes 

 uni-squamulati ; exteriores 3 monandri, interiores 2 ad squamulas 

 reducti, flosculus intimus excentricus femineus. Squamulae laterales 

 compresso-naviculares, carina ciliatae ; squamula flosculi femin. line- 

 aris, sub-plana, marginibus inflexis. Antherae exsertae, biloculares, 



