The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. VI, No. 4, September, 1911. 
A NEW SPECIES OF SCH1ZOSTACHYUM. 
By J. Sykes Gamble. 
(Highfield, East Liss, Hants, England.) 
Schizostachyum Fenixii Gamble sp. noy. 
Frutex scandens. Folia chartacea, glabra, lineari-lanceolata, apice 
longe setaceo-acuminata, basi inaequaliter contracta et rotundata, mar- 
ginibus scabra, 30 ad 35 cm longa, 4 ad 5 cm lata ; nervi infra conspicui 
utrinque 10 ad 12; glandulae transversae conspicuae, obliquae; petiolus 
brevissimus corrugatns, vix 3 mm longus; vaginae striatae, ore auricnlis 
rotundatis aliquando ad 5 mm longis et fimbriis albis saepe 7 ad 8 mm 
longis instructae ; ligula brevis longe ciliata. 
Flores in paniculis floriferis longissimis ramosis ramulis brevibus vix 
8 ad 10 cm longis; rhachis gracilis conspicue puberulus, glomernlis ad 
nodos multifloris vaginatis; vaginae stramineae cito cadncae. Spiculae 
uniflorae in glomerulis multae fertiles, 6 ad 8 mm longae, acuminatae, 
additis etiam multis imperfectis et bracteis pubescentibus glumaceis; 
glumae steriles 2 ovatae mucronatae, I 4 mm longa, nervis 9 et apice 
dense hirsuta, II 5 ad 6 mm longa, nervis 9 et apice parce hirsuta, 
marginibus ciliatis; florens 6 mm longa, margine ciliata enervis, glabra; 
palea convoluta, glabra, 7 mm longa, enervis; lodiculae 3, conspicuae, 
ovato-acuminatae, marginibus et dorso sericeo-villosae, 3 ad 4 mm longae. 
Stamina 6, linearia, libera, filamenta complanata, antherae 4 mm longae, 
basi inaequales, apice acumine conspicuo villoso, 2 mm longo munitae. 
Ovarium glabrum in stylum longum hirsutum attenuatum stigmatibus 3 
recurvis plumosis. Caryopsis ovoideus 9 mm longus, 6 mm diametro, 
siccitate niger, apice mucronatus, basi glumis persistentibus suffultus; 
pericarpium tenue, facile solutum ; semen pericarpio conforme, camosum. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Sablan, E. F6nix, December, 1910. A large 
quantity of material was collected which has been sent to Herr A. Kneucker, 
Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, for issue in his “Gramineae Exsiccatae.” 
This species comes nearest to Schizostachyum luzonicum Gamble; its most 
prominent distinguishing characters are its larger leaves with large fringed 
auricles, and the long hairy anther-tips. 
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