A NEW SPECIES OF VINCENTXA FROM THE 
PHILIPPINES 
By 0. Stapf 
Of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, England 
VINCENTIA CRINITA Stapf sp. nov. 
Closely allied to V. anceps Hk. f. ( Cladium sinclairii Hk. f.) 
but differing in the 1- or 2-flowered, less compact spikelets and 
the wider, markedly white style-base of the ovary, slightly smaller 
nuts with a short pyramidal pubescent top, sharper and almost 
winged, broader, narrowing stipe. 
Perennial, 50 cm high. Culms compressed to ancipitous, with 
a single leaf from halfway up to the inflorescence. Basal leaves 
about 9, crowded, equidistant, sheathing portion about 4 to 5 cm 
long, blade 15 to 22 cm by 4 to 8 mm, acute, finely striate. 
Panicle over 20 cm long, formed of 5 or 6 downward distant 
anthelae; lowest anthela supported by a bract whose sheathing 
portion is compressed, sharply keeled, and 2.5 cm long, whilst 
the ensiform, shortly acute blade is 3 cm by 4 mm ; bracts of the 
following anthelae rapidly decreasing in size, their blades nar- 
rowly linear to subulate; branches of the lowest anthela 2, of 
the following 5 or more and very unequal, the longest undivided 
for 6 cm or more; branchlets fascicled (up to 4 in a fascicle), 
unequal, the longest undivided to up to 1 cm, all bearing loosely 
approximate clusters of spikelets; ultimate bracts ovate, cuspi- 
date, acuminate, bright chestnut-brown to fuscous, obscurely 
ciliolate. Spikelets broad-ovate, laterally more or less com- 
pressed, at length more or less open with obliquely spreading 
glumes, about 3.5 mm long, 1- or 2-flowered, chestnut-brown to 
fuscous. Glumes ovate-oblong, acuminate or acute, cuspidate, 
2.5 mm long, very delicately scaberulous and ciliolate, the lower 
2 and the uppermost empty, the intermediate 1 or 2 fertile. 
Perianth none. Stamens 3, filaments much elongated at length, 
filiform, flexuous or in part twisted screw-fashion, remaining 
attached to the base of the nut. Ovary oblanceolate in outline, 
triquetrous, 1.2 mm long; style as long as the ovary, filiform 
from a thickened whitish pubescent base. Stigmas 3, slightly 
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