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Iiul. Bat. ITI. 269. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXA\ 595. Clarke Joiini. 

 I.inii. Soc. XX. 289, XXI. 137. FI. Brit. Ind. \L 606. Trimeii. 

 Fl. Ce\\. Y. 18. C. songaricus, Karel. and Kiril. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 

 (18-11) 859. C. seminiidiis, Moritzi. Verz. Zoll. Ptl. 96 (not Boxb.). 

 C. diaphaniria, and C. microiria, Steud. Zoll. Yerz. Ind. kxdx. II. 

 62. Syn. C.vj). 23. Common in low lying country in waste ground, 

 and rice lields. 



Singapore: Tangiin, etc. (Kidley 3}), (Kurz. 3003); Jolior : 

 Scudai Biver (Ridley); Malacca (Griffith 6178); Perak: Taiping 

 (Bidley) ; Penang (Curtis 1780, 1871, 1952); Kelantan: Kamposa 

 Paliang. Distrib. All warm parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and 

 Australia. Xative name " Bumput Suloli Belalang." 



10. C. riLOsus, Valil. Enum, II. 354. Stolons slender. Stems 

 rather flaccid acutely triquetrous 1-3 feet or more long y\ inch 

 through. Leaves shorter broad ^-^ inch wide. Umbel short compact 

 to large widely spreading rays generally few 1-6 inches long. Bracts 

 longer than the umbel. Secondary umbels, lax or very dense in- 

 numerable spikelets. Spikelets \-% inch long, rachis pilose (very 

 rarely giabrescent). Glumes ovate blunt usually red, loosely im- 

 In'icate keel green. Stamens 3. Xut ovate acute, apiculate trigonous 

 yellow-brown to black, '^ length of glume. Kunth. Enum. II. 80. 

 Boeck. Linnaea. XXXV. 598. Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI. 118. 

 XXV. 81. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 609. C. paniculatus, Don. Prodr. 39. 

 C. donianus, Dietr. Sp. PI, 11. 290. C. finibriatuSj Xees. Wight. Con- 

 tril). 86 Kunth. Enum. 11. 100. C. marginelJus, Xees. I.e. 83. C. 

 procerus, Both. Catal. Bot. III. 5. X^ov. PI. 35 (not Bottb.). C. 

 honestus, Kunth. I.e. 7-1. C. venustus, Mor. Verz. Zoll. Pfi. 96 (not 

 Br.). C. suhalatus, C. paiicifhrus, C. helus, C. piptolcpis, Steud. Syn. 

 Cyp. 31, 34, 315, 40. C. Ileijneanm, Boeck. Fl. XLII. 440. C. 

 iruncaius, Fr. and Sav. PI. Jap. II. 105 (not of Turcz). C. GriffitJi- 

 ianiis, Boeck. Linn. XXXV. 601. 



Singapoi-e (Kunstler 111), Jurong (Bidlev 65), Galang (9169), 

 Chan Chu Kang (1750); Johor (Bidley 1750 b-) ; Pabang: Pekan 

 (liidley 1319); Malacca; Selangor : Kuala Lumpur (Bidley), Xegri 

 Seuibilan: Kuala Sawar (Bidlev) ; Perak: Taiping (Bidley) ; Penang 

 Waterfall (Curtis 2170, 2171, 1830). Distrib. Africa, Tropical Asia 

 and Australia. Very common in marshes. 



11. C. COMPRESSUS, L. Sp. PL 68. Tufted plant. Stems several 

 or numerous, 6 inches to a foot or more tall, moderately stout. Leaves 

 nearly or as long, -J inch wide. Bracts 3-8 inches long. L^mbel sim- 

 ple rays 1-3 inches long. Spikelets 3 to 10 in a cluster ^-'^ inch long 

 rather broad. Ghmies ovate anucronate, silvery with a green keel 

 many nerved rachilla not winged. Stamens 3. Xut obovoid obtuse 

 acutely tri(|uetious, l)lack. Burui. Fl. Ind. 21. Boxb. Fl. Ind. I. 



