4 2Iater{a1s for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



stamens. Fruit narrow flattened, ovules numerous anatropous. 

 Seeds fusiform pajDillose. Distrib. species one Malaya. 



ExHYDRiAS ANGUSTiPETALA, Eidl., Joum. Bot. 1890, p. 99. 

 Stems 6 inches to 2 feet long f inch through, sul)merged. L<eaves 

 linear lanceolate acuminate alternate, crowded l>elow the flower, or -J 

 to 5 incli apart olive green or dull red, minutely denticulate one- 

 nerved. Flowers solitary sessile. Spatlie 1 inch long, apex l)ifid, 

 flattened edges keeled, perianth tube above the spatlie 1^ inch long, 

 slender, greenish or pinkisb white. Sepals lanceolate acute, -J inch 

 long. Petals more than ^ inch long narrow linear lorate obtuse 

 white. Stamens very slender, anthers linear. Fruit an inch long 

 thin walled one-celled. Seeds about 14 fusiform with three longitu- 

 dinal rows of short blunt processes. 



Growing often in large tangled masses in ditches and ponds 

 common. Singapore: Tanglin Garden Lake (Ridley 10721), Chan 

 Chu Kang: Malacca: (Griffith G039), Merlimau (Derry 231); 

 Perak: Dindiugs (Eidley), Kinta (King's Collector 7086) (Scor- 

 techini), Chankat Serdang (Wray 723); Pahang: Pekan (Ridley 

 1497). Distrib. Borneo. 



3. Blyxa, Du Petit Thouars. 



Submerged stemless usually' stoloniferous herb^. Leaves linear 

 acute crowded, scapes long or short. Flowers unisexual or bisexual, 

 enclosed in a tubular spatlie. Male flowers several in a spathe, 

 bisexual and female flowers solitary. Sepals 3 linear, petals 3 longer 

 linear. Stamens 3 to 9. Styles short, stigmas flliforni 3. Fruit 

 very slender many-seeded, seed oblong tailed or not, tubercled. 



Species about 157. Tropical Africa, Mascarene Islands, Asia 

 and Australia. 



Blyxa MALAYANA.Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. A^ol. IIL p. 358. 



Eootstock short and stout. Leaves numerous linear acule 2 to 

 14 inches long § inch wide flaccid deep green. Scapes several axil- 

 lary, peduncle 2 to 6 inches long. Flower bisexual 4 inches long. 

 Spatlie flattened. Sepals erect linear obtuse. Petals white 1 inch 

 long, margins toothed. Stamens 3 narrow, anthers linear. Stigmas 

 rather tliick acuminate longer tlian the stamens. Fruit rvliudric 

 2^ inch long, enclosed in the spathe. Seeds numerous elliptic blunt 

 muricate and ribbed ^'o inch long. B. Griffithii, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. V. p. 661 (in part). 



Common in ponds and ditches. Native name. Pumput Lumut. 



Singapore: 'I'auglin (Ridley 1625), Clian Chu Kaiig (Ridley 

 71); Pahang: Kuala J'aliang (Uidley) ; Malacca: Tanjong Kling 

 (Ridley 3130), Bukit Panchur, BukitSabukor; Perak: Ulu Bubong 



