Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 61 



Steud. Zoll. Verz. Ind. Arch. II. 63. Syn. Cyp. 3. Common over 

 tlie whole peninsula in waste ground. 



Singapore (Kurz 3013), Tanglin, etc. (Eidley 80); Pahang: 

 Kuantan, Pekan (Ridley); Kelantan: Kamposa "(Pidley 1416b); 

 Penang: Government Hill, etc. (Curtis 1184, 1864). 



var. laxiflora, Benth. Fl. Austral. VII. 361. Clarke I.e. 593. 

 Tall and weak, with the branches of tlie umliel longer and narrower, 

 usually redder. C. panicukdus, Eottb. Descr. and Ic. 40. C. pJenus, 

 Kunth. Enum. II. 12. Usually growing with the last but less com- 

 mon. 



Singapore: Changi (Ridley 1T50) ; Bindings: Lumut (Ridley) ; 

 Malacca (Griffith 6205); Penang: Telok Bahang (Curtis 1862); 

 Kedah:Yan (Ridley). Distribution. Whole of the warmer parts of 

 the world. 



3. P. puxcTicuLATUS, Necs. in Linnaea. IX. 383. A tall plant 

 with a triangular stem over a foot tall. Leaves often as long as the 

 stem. Umbel simple or compound about 4 inches long with long 

 grassy bracts. Spikelets red spicate half an inch long or more. 

 Glumes dark red blunt with a scarious margin, backs ribbed. Nut 

 broad ellipsoid truncate, half as long as the glume. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. I.e. 593, P. Baccha, Xees. Linnaea. IX. 383. Cyjierus 

 imncticulatus, Vahl. Enum. II. 348. Kunth. Enura. II. 15. C. 

 Baccha, Kunth. I.e. 115. 



Perak: Teluk Anson by the river (Ridley 13579). Distrib. 

 India, China. 



4. P. xiTEXS, Xees. Linnaea. IX. 383. Xov. Act. Acad. Xat. Cur. 

 XIX. Supp. I. 43. A small tufted plant 1-13 inches tall. Leaves 

 as long as the stem or longer. Umljel simple with slender peduncles 

 ^ an inch long, or reduced to a single head. Bracts long. Spikes ^ 

 inch long, silvery linear oblong. Glumes 10 to 20 closely imbricating 

 ovate mucronate with a single recurved point sides silvery. Keel 

 green with 3 ribs by it on each side. Stamen 1 (rarely 3). Nut 

 obovoid compressed grown. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 591. C. pit- 

 milus, L. Sp. PL 69. Kunth. Enum. II. 4 (part). Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 1, 196. Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI. 43 (not of Nees.). Trim. 

 Fl. Zeyl. V. 19, C. niiens, Vahl. Enum. II. 331. Kunth. Enum. 

 IT. 3. ' Boeck. Linnaea. XXXV. 483 (not Retz,), C. memhranaceus, 

 Vahl, I.e. 330. C. punctatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 193. C. pulvinatus, 

 Nees. and Meven. Wight. Contrib. 74. C. ohstinatus, Steud. Syn. 

 Cyp. 10. 



Singapore (Kunstler 63) Macpherson Road, Changi, Seletar (Rid- 

 ley 1751); Malacca: Ayer Panas (Cantley's Coll.); Perak: Telok 

 Pmang: Ipoh (Ridley 9574) ; Penang: Dato Kramat (Curtis 1783), 



