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squamulam sterilem amplectens. Ovarium sublagenaeforme laeve ; 

 stylus breviusculus, ovario continuus, emarcescente persistens, tri- 

 fidus, ramis inclusis. Achaenium obovatum, basi angustatuin, apice 

 styli basi persistente acuminatum, pericarpio tenue carnosulo (in 

 sicco coriaceo) laevi testaceo, nucleo lapideo nigrescente. 



Prof. Miquel, in establishing his Lepironia enodis had only the 

 full-grown inflorescences before him, which were distributed from the 

 Botanic gardens, Buitenzorg, under No. 3029, and described therefore 

 the plant as having no leaves. But the leaves with young inflores- 

 cences were (by mistake probably) distributed at the same time under 

 No. 4051, coming also from Palembang, and upon these specimens 

 he founded his Lepironia foliosa. 



5. P. Humile, Hassle., Gat. Bog., 297 ; Steud., Gyp. 134 ; Zoll., 

 Gat. 61 ; Walp., Ann. I, 753 ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 334 ; Oudem., in 

 Bot. Ztg. 1866, 193. — Folia petiolata, lamina elongato-elliptica retusa. 

 abrupte subulato-cuspidata, marginibus apicem versus spinuloso-ser- 

 rulata ; petioli complicati, basi vaginato-dilatati ; culmi plernmque 

 geminati, elongati v. abbreviati, basi squamato-vaginati ; spicae solita- 

 riae (rarius binae), squamis fuscescente viridibus plurinerviis ; achenia 

 oblonga utrinque attenuata, acuminata, obsolete bicarinata. — Lepi- 

 stachya praemorsa, Zipp. M. S. ; Lepironia cuspidata, Miq. Suppl. Fl. 

 v. Sumatra, 603 ; Pandanophyllum Zippelianum, Kurz in natuurJc. 

 Tydscl. v. Ned. Ind. XXVII. 126 ; ejusd. Bot. Ztg. 1865 204. 



Hab. : One of the most common grasses in the hill forests of 

 Western Java, at 3-5000' ft. elevation ; occurs also in Banca : 

 Teysmann ; and in Sumatra : Korthals. 

 Native name : Sohlenat, Sunda. 



Rhizoma crassum, obliquum v. verticale, lignescens, radices plnri- 

 mas demittens. Polia trifarie equitantia, subcoriacea, petiolata ; 

 lamina elongato-elliptica, 1 — 1£ ped. longa, 1| — 2f poll, lata, basi 

 in petiolum complicatum longitudine ab 1 — 2J poll, variantem basi 

 vaginato-dilatatum decurrens, apice retuso abrupte subulato — ( — 2 

 poll.) cuspidata, plicata, 3 — nervis, margine apicem versus costaque 

 spinuloso-serrulata. Culmi e stolonibus abbreviatis squamato-vagi- 

 natis plerumque geminatim orti, nudi, deorsum attenuati, obtuse 

 trigoni, striati, glabri, 1 — 4 poll, usque ad pedem longi, intense 

 virides opaci, sub lente albido-punctati. Spicae oblongae v. ovato- 



