226 GRASSES AND SEDGES OF BORNEO. 



Thoracostachyum bancaimm, Clarke. Sarawak, swampy ground 

 in a wood near Puak (Eidley 12339). 



Th. Bidleyi, Clarke. New species. Quasi umbellae radiis 5 

 usque ad. 5 cm. longis 1-3-stachyis spicis ovoideis 

 densifloris 6 mm. longis, mice 1=1 mm. longis anguste 

 obovoidea trigona, lucide castanea, rostro cum \ parte- 

 nucis aequilongo lineari-conico. Ehizoma gracile ligne- 

 um, culmi basi robuste pullulantes 5 dm. longi graci- 

 liores. Folia omnia basalia 3-4 dm. longa, 7 mm. lata. 

 Bracteae 3, ima. 12 cm. longa filiformes. Species ex- 

 imia. Sarawak, Kuching. Common in the woods. 

 (Eidley 12346). 



This plant is abundant in the sandy woods near Ku- 

 ching. It is about 15 inches tall with a rather hard 

 woody rhizome, and somewhat stiff leaves ; the culms 

 is slender and ends in an umbel of about 5 rays one of 

 which is usually branched : the globose spikes are 

 solitary on the ends of the umbels rays : the glumes 

 are crowded, rather pale, and the nut small and rather 

 long beaked. 



Mapania radians, Clarke n. sp. Ehizome stout woody. Leaves 

 flacid linear 18-24 inches long, 4 inch wide, acu- 

 minate to a long point, glabrous, nine ribbed dis- 

 tichous crowded at base. Scapes very slender, 3-6 

 inches long, purple with a close fitting sheath 1 inch 

 long halfway, spikes terminal in a head 4 to 12, ± inch 

 long dark red viscid cylindric covered with scale like 

 ovate obtuse bracts with ciliate edges. Outer squamel- 

 lae flattened with short thick bristles on the keels ; 

 Inner squamellae 2 thin lanceolate glabrous. Stamens 

 slender, filaments filiform. Stigmas 3, nut stalked glo- 

 bose, with a very long conic blunt grooved beak, much 

 longer than the rest of the nut. Sarawak, Eocks on 

 Matang, Siul, Puak; Sandakan, Bongaya Eiver (Eidley) . 



This new species is about 2 feet tall, with a rather 

 slender stem triquetrous above. Leaves narrow linear 



Jour Straits Branch 



