THE FLORA OF MOUNT IIALCON. 
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an oblong appendage about 1 cm. long. Spikelets purple, mostly sessile, 
rather crowded, usually 3-flowered, the flowers perfect, 6 to 7 mm. 
long; three lower glumes empty, orate to oblong ovate, 2.5 to 4 mm. 
long, short acuminate, the three succeeding glumes oblong-ovate, 4 mm. 
long, short sharp acuminate, each with a perfect flower, the seventh glume 
usually empty. Nut immature, trigonous, with a trigonous glabrous 
beak, the style 3-cleft. Stamens 3 ; anthers lanceolate, 2.2 mm. long, 
mucronate-acuminate. 
On an open heath at 2,400 m. alt. (No. 5562) (sterile). The type of the 
species is No. 2386 Foxworthy from Mount Banajao, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, 
March, 1907, alt. 2,250 m. The second species of the genus to be found in the 
Philippines. 
Undoubtedly most closely related to the Hongkong Gladium ensigerum Hance, 
but differing from that species in its smooth leaf-margins and much smaller 
spikelets. An Australian type. 
SCHOENUS Linn. 
Schoenus melanostachys R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 231; Benth. FI. Austr. 7 
(1878) 370; Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II. 4 (1894) 245. 
In open heaths at 2,400 m. alt. (No. 61^3). 
North Borneo and Australia. 
This species, new to the Philippines, is widely distributed in Australia, where 
the genus is largely developed, and has also been found on Mount Kinabalu in 
British North Borneo at an altitude of 1,700. m. It must therefore be considered 
both an Australian and a Bornean representative in the Philippine flora. Schoe- 
nus apogon R. & S., has been found in northern Luzon by Loher 10 
GAHNIA Forst. 
Gahnia javanica Moritzi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. (1845-46) 98; Clarke in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. Bot. 2 (1907) 103. 
In rather open thickets, exposed ridge at 2,250 m. alt. (No. 6162) . 
Previously known in the Philippines from Mount Banajao, Luzon, and Mount 
Apo, Mindanao. 
Yunnan and Penang to New Guinea and the Viti Islands. 
SCLER1A Berg. 
Scleria chinensis Kunth Enum. 2 (1837) 357; Clarke in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
Bot. 2 (1907) 105. 
At 1,700 m. alt. (No. 4439 Merritt) June, 1906. 
Previously known in the Philippines from Luzon, Negros and Mindanao. 
China to Singapore, Malaya and Queensland. 
CAREX Linn. 
Carex filicina Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) 123; Clarke in Philip. Journ. 
Sci. Bot. 2 (1907) 107. 
In exposed ridge-thickets at 2,250 m. alt. (No. 6,200) ; also collected by 
Merritt at 1,300 m. alt., in June, 1906 (No. 4384). 
Previously known in the Philippines only from the mountains of northern and 
central Luzon. 
India to China. 
Clarke, This Journal, Sec. C (1907), 2, 102. 
