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otherwise nearly glabrous, the stems 3-angled, about 5 mm in 
diameter, glabrous, not scabrid on the angles, quite hidden by 
the rather lax, purple, overlapping sheaths. Leaves up to 70 cm 
long, about 1.5 cm wide, chartaceous, gradually narrowed upward 
to the long and slender acuminate apex, slightly narrowed below 
and gradually passing into the sheaths, the margins scabrid, the 
midrib usually purple ; sheaths lax, sparingly pubescent, purple. 
Inflorescence a narrow, terminal, corymbose, leafy panicle, the 
primary branches distant, 6 to 12, 4 to 8 cm long, many-flowered, 
each subtended by a leaf, the upper leaves gradually shorter, the 
lower ones similar to those of the stem but somewhat smaller, the 
rachis and branchlets 3-angled, sparingly ciliate-hispid. Spike- 
lets apparently all bisexual, lanceolate in flower to ovate in fruit, 
4 to 5 mm long, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, numerous, each 
subtended by a linear, scabrid, leaf -like bracteole, 6 to 10 mm 
long. Empty glumes usually 3, lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, 
keeled, distichous, 2.5 to 3 mm long; flrst flowering glume con- 
taining a female flower, submembranaceous, about 3.5 mm long, 
2 mm wide, somewhat keeled, acuminate ; second flowering glume 
similar to the first, containing a male flower, the third and fourth 
(when present) thin, narrowly oblong to spatulate, each contain- 
ing a male flower or the uppermost one empty. Stamens 3; 
anthers linear, 2 mm long, long-apiculate ; filaments about 3 mm 
long. Ovary of the female flower narrow, somewhat pubescent; 
style 0.5 mm long, the arms 3, slender, 4 to 5 mm long. Nutlet 
bony, white, 2 to 2.5 mm long, smooth, shining, acute, prominently 
3-angled, sparingly appressed-pubescent with brown hairs, the 
gynophore white, prominent, broadly 3-lobed, nearly 1 mm high 
and about as wide as the base of the nutlet. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 158, June 18, 1913, in forests. Apparently 
most closely allied to Scleria corymhosa Roxb., but entirely different from 
our specimens of that species, and from its descriptions. It manifestly 
belongs in the section Hypoporum. Its striking features are its loose, not 
winged, purple sheaths, its relatively large leaves, its narrow, interrupted, 
leafy panicles, and its smooth, shining, more or less ferruginous-pubescent, 
acute, prominently 3-angled nutlets. 
MORACEAE 
FICUS Linnaeus 
FICUS EUPHLEBIA sp. nov. (§ Sycidium.) 
Frutex 1.5 m altus, ramulis foliisque utrinque minute scabe- 
rulis; foliis alternis, oblongis ad anguste ovato-oblongis, char- 
taceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, equilateralibus, basi rotundatis vel 
