206 NEW- MALAYAN PLANTS. 



This is allied to M. Wallichii Clarke a common plant in 

 our woods but has longer more slender peduncles and 

 usually 3 or 4 spikes in a head but one of the Bukit Timah 

 specimens has only a single spike in the head. In the 

 flora of British India Vol. VI. p. 682. Mr. Clarke refers 

 this to the Javanese M. muftispicata Clarke based on 

 Pandanophyllum humile Zoll. Verz. Ind. Arch. ii. 61 but in 

 a letter received lately he states that it is a distinct 

 species. I am indebted to him for pointing- out the dis- 

 tinction of both of these species from any described, and 

 for notes on them. 



Mapania montana, n. sp. 



Stem short and thick emitting stolons 4 inches long 

 covered with acuminate sheaths. Leaves linear - base 

 narrowed into a distinct petiole, apex abruptly acuminate, 

 petiole 4 inches long, blade 22 inches long 2 inches wide 

 3 nerved, point 2 inches long armed with short thorus. 

 Scape 15 inches long rather slender. Bracts 3, lowest 

 oblong ovate 1-^ inch long, with an abrupt point 3 in- 

 ches. Capitalum 1^ inch through of about 40 heads den- 

 sely crowded J long. Bracteoles oblong rounded at the 

 tip long ribbed margins lacerate. Squamellee narrow, 

 edges ciliate. Style shortly trifid. 



Borneo. Mt. Kinabalu, Penokok, Haviland 1801, at 3000 

 feet alt. 



Apparently only a single specimen of this very distinct 

 plant was obtained and it is not mentioned in Stapf's 

 account of Dr. Haviland's plants. It has the foliage of 

 M. humilis Naves, but the inflorescence resembles that of 

 M. palustris, c 



GRAMINE2E. _ 



Isachne sylvestris, n. sp. 



Stem ascending geniculate rather stout 9 inches tall. 

 Leaves lanceolate acuminate with a broad base, 3 inches 

 long \ inch wide, margins thickened glabrous above, 

 pubescent beneath, sheaths hairy. Panicle 6 inches long 



Jour. Straits Branch 



