Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 55 



(llidlcy 9392); Lankawi: Kwali (Kidley 83U4). DLstrib. ludia, 

 China, Malay Islands. 



'' Euniput Durian." A common little weed in damj) sandy 

 l)atlis, etc. Hooker l.c.c. makes this plant a variety vai-. Malacccnse 

 on its broader lloral bracts which are very variable, tlie liowers of 

 both sexes sessile, but they are more usually stipitate, petals broader 

 and seeds larger. It is a variable plant however, and I take it to be 

 practically the same as the Indian one, 



E. XEUANTHEMUM, Mart. Wall. 1*1. xVs. JJar. III. 29. Small 

 plant 2 to 3 inches tall. Leaves linear acute rather ilaccid 1 inch 

 lung J-g to -J inch wide. Sca})es 2-3 inches long sti-ongly 3 ribbed and 

 twisted, sheathing lea! rather loose -^ length of the scape. Heads 

 small with 7 or 8 lanceolate acute strongly toothed involucral bracts 

 much over to))ping the flowers. Inner biacts lanceolate acuminate 

 toothed. Male flowers. Sepals obcuneate black with white procevsses. 

 Petals 3 spathulate tip})ed black. Fruit 3 lobed 3 seeded, seeds rathei- 

 large elliptic vellow obscurely dotted. Kunth. Enum. III. 555. 

 Steud. Syn. PI. Cyp. 270. Hook. fil. El. Brit. Ind. VI. 584. E. 

 pygniaeum, Dalz. Kew Journ. III. (1851). E. xeranlhenioidcs, 

 Heurck. and Mill. Obs. Bot. 103. 



Penang: Waterfall (Curtis 3674). Distrib. India and Africa. 



A remarkable little plant, the bracts much longer than the head 

 of flowers which are very few in number seated on a flat recep- 

 tacle. 



XXIV. CYPEEACEAE. 



Herbs grass-like, with solid moi-e or h^ss tri(pietrous stems. 

 Leaves linear or oblong sheathing, with tubulai- shcatlis, rarely re- 

 duced to sheaths only. Flowers 1-2 sexual small or minute solitary 

 in the axils of glumes, arj-anged in spikes. Perianth none, or of 

 hypogynous bristles or scales. Stamens 1 to 3. Anthers linear basi- 

 fixcd, filaments long or short. Ovary 1 celled, 1 ovuled. Style 

 slender 2-3 cleft, with slender branches. Ovule basal erect anatro- 

 pous. Fruit a compressed, bi-convex, plano-convex or trigonous nut. 

 Embryo minute inside the usually floury abumen. 



Species about 3,000, distributed over the whole woi'ld. 



In woiking up this order I am much indebted to Mr. C. B. 

 Clarke for identifications of most of the si)ecimens collected in the 

 Malay Peninsula, and I have also made much use of bis works on 

 the order, especially the Cyperaccae of the Floi-a of British India and 

 his papers in the Journal of the Linnean Society. 



§ A. CvrEKEAK. Spikelets of many or 

 few glumes; lowest 1-2 or more empty, middle 



