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are shorter than usual, perhaps not fully developed. Baker's 

 8. Tansleyi is one of those. The type of this species is pre- 

 served in Herb. Kew, but the description of the specimen 

 hardly accords with it. 



31. S. Morgani, Zeiller, Bull. Bot. Soc. France, xxxii, p. 77. 



Slender erect plant 4-8 in. tall with few short 1 in. rather 

 distant branches simple or nearly so. Leaves lower plane 

 very small distant, ovate, rather blunt with a broad base 

 in. long, keeled minutely, denticulate, of upper plane lanceo- 

 late cuspidate, recurved. Spikes slender 1 in. long, lower 

 plane bracts imbricating ovate, blunt or very slightly acute, 

 upper plane ovate lanceolate cuspidate toothed, nearly as large. 



Very local, Mountains at 6,000 ft. 



Pahang, Gunong Berumbun (Eidley 13985, 13986). 

 Pekak, Gunong Eiaw and Gunong Kerbau (Morgan, Eobin- 

 son). 



The Gunong Berumbun plants are much more distinctly 

 ciliate toothed on leaves and bracts. 



32. S. scabrida, Eidley n. sp. 



Small plant 2-4 in. long, creeping ascending with few 

 simple or sparingly branched branches, stem leaves and bracts 

 strigosely, hairy all over. Leaves, lower plane ovate, blunt 

 -eV in. long, base broad, round, distant. Of upper plane ovate 

 with long excurved points. Spikes .75 in. long, rather slender. 

 Bracts, lower plane very numerous, ovate. Of upper plane 

 lanceolate acuminate, smaller, pale. 



Eare. Pahang, Gunong Tahan, (Eidley 15960). 



Allied to 8. Morgani but entirely hairy and with broader 

 and shorter lower plane bracts. 



33. S. montana, Eidley n. sp. 



Stems slender, creeping prostrate 9 in. long, branches few, 

 short with 3 branchlets. Lower plane leaves approximate on 

 stem, ovate oblique and rounded at base, rather stiff and a 

 little overlapping the stem .12 in., upper ones more lanceo- 

 late, of upper plane ovate acuminate with a long cusp. Spikes 

 resupinate .4 in. long. Lower plane bracts lanceolate acu- 

 minate, edge shortly ciliate, spreading. Upper plane ovate 

 long acuminate strongly ciliate. Sporange large. 



Pahang, Wray's Camp, Gunong Tahan (Eidley 16200). 

 Perhaps nearest 8. tenera but entirely creeping with the 

 upper plane bracts strongly ciliate. 



34. S. brachystachya, Spring, Mon. ii. 255, Baker, Fern-Allies, 



113. var. ornata, 8. ornata, Spring, Mon. ii. 259. 



Stems tall and stout over two feet with long roots from 

 the lower part and distant coriaceous, oblong, blunt, leaves 



R. A. Soc, No. 80, 1919. 



