118 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Bengal t. 15, Hook. til. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 376. A. datum Kunth. I.e. 

 70. A. latifolium Wight. Ic. 2072. A. hcrbacca Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 175. 

 C. lineolata Bl. Enum. I. 3. C. data Vahl." Enum. II. 178. 



Selangor : Rawang (Ridley 8157) ; Pahang : Tahan River (Ridley 

 5823) ; Perak : Kwala Dipang (Ridley 9505), Tomoh (Machado), 

 Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis 2680). Distrib. India and Malay Islands. 



2. A. PAUCIFLOEUM, Wight. Ic. PI. 2077. Stem creeping succu- 

 lont with slender roots branches ascending 3 or 4 inches long. Lower 

 leaves elliptic ovate upper ones ovate glabrous li to 1 inch long | inch 

 wide amplexicaul with short sheaths. Pedicels axillary 1 to 3, to- 

 gether hairy i inch long. Flowers yellow. Sepals (in fruit) oblong 

 boat-shaped hairy i inch long. Capsule elliptic a little longer, split- 

 ting widely into 3 valves. Clarke Monogr. 207. Hook, fil, Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI. Dichacspermum aurantiacum, Hassk. in herb. Zollinger. 



Lankawi, Kwah in swamps (Curtis 2124). Distrib. India and 

 Celebes. 



I have only seen this in fruit. Curtis says the flowers are yellow, 

 and Hasskarl's Mss. name seems to endorse this, but Clarke says " from 

 dried specimens blue." 



3. A. NUDIFLORUM, Br. Prodr. p. 271. Slender herb 4 to 15 

 inches tall shortly creeping. Leaves narrow linear or lanceolate acute 

 f to 3 inches long, rV to i inch wide light green sheath short i inch 

 boarded. Cymes terminal flowers small pink 5 to 10, branches 1 or 

 2 slender, pedicels slender. Stamens 2 fertile 2 to 4 sterile, filaments 

 beax'ded. Capsule ovoid beaked, splitting in 3 valves & inch long. Seeds 

 rounded compressed rugose black. Clarke Commel. and Cyrt. Beng. 

 21. Monogr. p. 210. Hook, fil Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 378. Hassk. PL Jav. 

 Rar. 95. A. radicans Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 45. Hassk. PI. Junghuhu 

 p. 145. A. nudicaule Kunth. Enum. IV. p. 67. A. folios um Hassk. 

 I.e. 144. A. diversifoliwm Hassk. I.e. 142. A. Jimghuhmanum Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. III. 358. Suppl. 609. .4. lancifolium Griff. Notul. III. 236. 

 Commdina nudiflora and Mant. 177 (not Sp. PL). Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 

 173. 



Singapore: Kranji (Ridley 3942), Tanglin, etc.; Johor: Bukit 

 Muar (Feilding) ; Malacca: Pulau Besar (Maingay) ; Sungei Ujong : 

 Bukit Kupaying, Bukit Sulu (Herb. Bot. Gard. Singapore) ; Pahang : 

 Pekan (Ridley 1450) ; Perak : Thaiping ( Wray) ; Penang : Gardens 

 (Ridley 7041). Sepoy Lines (Curtis 1856). Kelantan, Kamposa 

 (Ridley). Distribution Tropical Asia. 



A common woed in dry spots. Native name " Rumput Lidah 

 Lumbu," " Rumput Sarang Tupai," "Rumput Kurunit," "Rumput 

 Tapafa Burong." 



1. A SINICUM, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 659. Roots tul>orous. Basal 

 loaves flaccid linear acute dilatod at base 8 inches long by i inch wide. 



