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CYPERACEAE 
FI M BRISTYLIS Vahl 
FI M BR ISTYLIS DURA (Zoll. & Mor.) comb. nov. 
Isolepsis dura Zoll & Mor. Syst. Verzeich. (1845-46) 97; Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat. 3 (1857) 312. 
Fimbristylis asperrima Boeckl. in Linnaea 37 (1871-73) 40; Clarke 
in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1893) 643. 
Sarawak, Lundu, Foxworthy 325, May 31, 1908; near Kuching, Native 
collector 670 (Bur. Sci.), August, 1911. 
The species has been reported from Borneo by Ridley, by Winkler, and 
by Miss Gibbs, as Fivlbristylis asperrima Boeckl. Isolepsis dura is, how- 
ever, the older name. Ceylon to the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
MAPANIA Aublet 
MAP AN I A FOX WORTH Yl sp. nov. § Halostema. 
Foliis coriaceis, usque ad 120 cm longis et 2 cm latis, basi haud 
angustatis, apice longissime sensim attenuatis, margine aculeato- 
scabris ; capitulis longe pedunculatis, globosis, sub anthesin 
circiter 4 cm diametro, spicis circiter 25, distinctis, oblongo- 
ovoideis, 1.7 ad 2 cm longis, bracteis 1 ad 1.5 cm longis. 
A coarse perennial glabrous plant. Leaves numerous, linear, 
coriaceous, somewhat shining, up to 120 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm 
wide, base scarcely narrowed, sheathing but not widened or in- 
flated, the upper portion gradually narrowed into a slender, 
aculeate-scabrid tail #> to 20 cm in length, the margins rather 
prominently aculeate-scabrid, the midrib aculeate-scabrid on the 
lower surface in the upper part of the leaf. Scapes about 40 
cm long, obscurely 3-angled. Heads, in flower, globose, about 4 
cm in diameter, composed of about 20 distinct spikes, the indi- 
vidual spikes brown when dry, oblong-ovoid, 1.7 to 2 cm long, 
each composed of very many spikelets. Bracts ovate, brown, 
coriaceous, 1 to 1.5 cm long, those subtending the spikes 2 or 3, 
boat-shaped, keeled, about 8 mm long. Bracteoles about 12 mm 
long, 3 mm wide, oblong, coriaceous, striate, glabrous, obtuse. 
Two outer glumes linear, boat-shaped, scabrid on the keel, 10 
to 12 mm long, the others linear, thin, about as long as the outer 
two. Styles bifid, rarely trifid. 
Sarawak, Mount Poe (Rumput), Foxworthy 392, June 3, 1908, near the 
summit of the mountain. 
A species well characterized by its long narrow leaves which are very 
gradually narrowed upward to the long, slender, aculeate-scabrid tip but 
not narrowed toward the base; its long scapes; and its large globose solitary 
heads in which the individual spikes, about 25 in number, are distinct. It 
probably is as closely allied to Mapania palustris Benth. as to any other 
species, but is entirely distinct from that form. 
