112 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



to cylindric b to f inch long. Bracts light brown orbicular stiff con- 

 vex with a narrow scarious margin. Bracteoles 2 keeled and spinulose 

 boat-shaped, one obovate flat spinulose pale brown. Petals obcun- 

 eate orbicular clawed margins fimbriate bright yellow, £ inch 

 across. Staminodes yellow with long processes on one side. Stamen 

 filament fairly thick. Anther cells divaricate above and below toothed 

 above. Ovary elliptic green. Vahl. Enura. II. 205. Kunth. Enum. 

 VI 17 Miq. FL Ind. Bat. III. 529. Steud. Syn. Cvp. 287. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 364. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. IV. 297. X. Walkeri, 

 Kunth. Enum. IV. 16. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Sqppl. 608. X. malacccnsis, 

 Steud. I.e. 287. Xyris No. 2. Griff. Notul. III. 123. 



Singapore: Balestier Plain (Ridley 5878), Pulau Tekong, Changi 

 (Ridley 1718) ; Johor : Tanjong Surat (Feilding H.B.S. 4096) ; Malacca : 

 PulauBesar (Ridley 63), Tanjong Kling (Ridley 3129), Merlimau 

 Derry 1217); Pahang : Pekan (Ridley) ; Negri Sembi Ian ; Seremban : 

 (Ridley 10003). Distrib. India, Burmah, Malay Islands. 



Common in sandy open country. 



3. X. paucifloea, Willd. Phytogr. I. 2, t. 1. f. I. Sp. PL I. 255. 

 Leaves thin grassy very narrowly linear acuminate, margins (when 

 dry) thickened and scaberulous 3-10 inches long T V to £ inch wide. 

 Scapes rather slender, 6 to 15 inches long terete, with two keels. Head 

 globose or ovoid few flowered. Bracts orbicular convex pale brown 

 with a broad green margin. Bracteoles keeled. Petals broadly ovate. 



Vahl. Enum. II. 207. Br. Prodr. 256. Mart, in Wall. PL As. Rar. 

 III. 29. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 529. Steud. Syn. Cyp. 287. Hook fil. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 365. Trimen. Fl. Ceyl. IV. 298. X. oryzctorum, 

 Steud. I.e. 286. 



Singapore: Reservoir (Hullett, Ridley 5740), Balestier Plain 

 (5877); Pahang: Pekan (Ridley 1026); Province Wellesley, Bukit 

 Jura (Ridley 7105) ; Lankawi Islands, Kwah (Ridley 8305). Distrib. 

 India, China, Malay Archipelago, Australia. 



Damp grassy spots. 



4. X. RlDLEYl, Rondlo Journ. Bot. Vol. 37, (1899) p. 505, PL 

 403, fig. 12-16. Leaves narrowly linear herbaceous bases dilated red- 

 dish 7 to 8 inches long rs inch wide. Scapes several slender 15 inches 

 long subterete with a keel on each wide. Capitula obovoid £ inch or 

 more long. Bracts ovoid dark brown keeled few. Sepals paler, linear fal- 

 cate scabrid, not keeled. Fruit oblong unilocular, placentas 3 promin- 

 ent. Seed ellipsoidal. 



Kedah, Gunong Jerai, grassy spots at 3000 feet alt. (Ridley 

 5050). Endemic. Rare. 



5. X. i;AN( ana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 608. Dwarf plants 

 solitarv, with slender fibrous roots. Leaves flat linear acuminate very 



