110 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Province Wellesley, Perrnatang Bertam (Ridley) ; Penang : (Curtis) ; 

 Perak : Ulu Bubong (King's Coll. 10,645). 

 Common in ditches. " Rumput Ayer." 



var. plantaginea t Solms. Laub. I.e. A very much smaller plant 

 ■with narrow, often linear leaves, M. pauciflora, Kunth. Miquel I.e. 

 M. linearis Miq. I.e. Pontederia plantaginea Rosb. I.e. 123. P. pauci- 

 flora B. Enum. Fl. Jav. I. 32. 



Singapore: Tanglin, etc., (Ridley); Malacca: Malacca Pindah 

 (Hervey); Perak : Ulu Bubong (King's Coll. 10,645). 



Common in ditches, merely a much smaller form than the type 

 and passing into it. Distrib. India, Malaya, Japan, China, Tropical 

 Africa. 



XII. PHILYDRACEAE. 



Herbs with narrow linear leaves. Inflorescence spicate or pani- 

 cled, flowers small, bisexual irregular. Bracts rather large. Perianth 

 lobes 2 inferior, petaloid. Stamen 1, on the base of the anterior seg- 

 ment, filamont stout. Anther spirally twisted or sti'aight. Staminodes 

 2 petaloid. Ovary free, 3-1 celled, placentas 3 parietal, ovules anatro- 

 pous. Style stout, stigma capitate. Capsule 3 valved. Seeds numer- 

 ous elliptic pustulate. Albumen fleshy. 



Philydeum, Banks. 



Panicle tall erect. 



Ph. lanuginosum, Banks. Gaertn. Fruct. I. 62, 1. 16, f. 10. Leaves 

 ensiform acuminate light green 18 inches long £ inch wide. Stem 30 

 inches tall bt inch through reddish. Spike simple or more often 

 branched. Bracts at base ensiform acuminate sheathing 3 inches long. 

 Floral bracts lanceolate acuminate woolly 2 inch long. Perianth lobes 

 fugacious yellow woolly lanceolate i inch long. Stamen filament stout. 

 Anther cells twisted spirally, pollen yellow. Staminodes alternate 

 lanceolate thin yellow. Pistil conic densely silky. Capsule oblong 

 reddish woolly 2 inch long. Seeds elliptic pustulate brown. 



Kunth Enum. III. 380. Bot. Mag. t. 783. Roscoe in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. VIII. 342, t. 20. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 250. Guillen. 

 Ic. PI. Austr. t. 5. Benth. Fl. Austral. VII. 74. Griff. Notul. III. 

 231. Ic. PI. As. t. 269, 270. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 363. 

 Garciana Cochin-Chinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochin-Ch. I. 15. 



Singapore: Bedok (Ridley 5909); Malacca: Common in rice fields, 

 Bukit Sabukor, Tanjong Kling, Ayer Panas (Ridley 1576) ; Province 

 Wellesley (Curtis 2874). Distrib. Burmah, Andamans, China. Malay 

 Archipolago, China. 



In shallow water. Native name " Rumput Kipas." 



