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connate for most of their length. Corolla hardly longer;
lobes 3, very unequal, one twice as long as the other two, all
crested with white hairs. Stamens with pale whitish
filaments; anthers rather large, black, little longer than the
shorter perianth-lobes. Female flower: sepals as in the male.
•Petals free to base, linear, with long white hairs all over.
Capsule trilobed, globose. Seed oblong, obtuse at both ends.
Style elongate, slender.
In damp spots on the Padang.
Certainly near E. macrophyllnm, Ruhl., from description,
but the unequal male petals are those of E. Hookerianiun, and
the leaves are always shorter than the culm.
CYPERACE^.
267. SciRPUS Clarkei, Stapf. Abundant in cracks of
rocks in the streams on the Padang. This slender sedge forms
good-sized tufts in the rapid torrents, the culms being often
pendent ui the water. I find the nut distinctly trigonous and
narrowed at the base, dilated upwards, where it ends abruptly
in a short beak, the style base. Stapf describes it as "obovato
oblongo dorso convexo leviter carinata, facie subplana.
It was first obtained in Kinabalu by Haviland, and has
not been found elsewhere.
268. ACTINOSCHCENUS FILIFORMIS, Beilth VAT. RUPESTRIS.
A dwarf tufted form, 6 inches tall, with very slender erect
stems and capitula hardly an inch across.
Common on one or two of the rocky slopes between the
Camp stream and the top of Gunong Tahan. I have the same
form from Gunong Dai in Lingga, collected by Mr. Hullett,
and from the top of Ben Karum in Sarawak by C. J. Brooks.
The usual form of the species has long pendent or weak
stems often twice as thick as in this and has larger capitula.
This form occurs in Hongkong, Ceylon, and the Karimon and
St. Barbe Islands, the waterfall, Taiping, Mt. Ophir, Penang.
Hill, and Kedah Peak.
269. Cladium pulchrum, n. sp.
Rhizome short, woody; base of stem swollen, covered with
broad red-brown sheaths. Leaves coriaceous, linear, obtuse,
narrowed upwards, base dilated, margins denticulate, scabrid
or smooth, 6 to 9 inches long, j^2 ^"^h broad, dilated, base J
inch wide. Inflorescence 10 to 14 inches tall; peduncle
glaucous, terete. Panicle bracts at the base i inch long,
narrowly linear, base dilated, sheathing, deep red. Rachis
flexuous. Branches few, 6 or 7, about half an inch long,
crowded spikelets on short angled peduncles. Lower glumes
empty, 3, two basal, broadly lanceolate, cuspidate, stronglynerved,
red; upper much longer, more narrowly lanceolate,
acute, dark red, fertile; glume lanceolate, as long as the
previous one. Stamens 3; filaments linear; anthers narrow,
linear, yellow. St}'le long. Stigmas 3. Bristles 3, narrowed
upwards, pubescent, half as long as the nut. Nut (not ripe)
narrowed into the style.