Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 69 



Singapore (Kurz 3007), Tanglin (Eidley 74); Pahang: Pekan 

 (Eiclley 1162) ; Malacca (Bidley) ; Penaiig (Curtis 1981). Distrib. 

 All warm regions. Native name " Eumpiit Haliya Hitam." The 

 tubers are used for smoking in the case of pain in the nose. 



14. C. STOLONIFERUS, Ectz. Obscrv. IV. 10. Ehizome long 

 creeping woody, stems tuberous at the base distant, about 6-18 inches 

 tall. Leaves shorter 3-14 inches long stiff or flaccid to ^ inch across. 

 Umbel simple, usually contracted into a head, sometimes with rays 

 nearly 2 inches long. Bracts longer spikelets ^ inch long or less 

 oblong or linear pale or red. Glumes oblong obtuse closely imbricate, 

 ribs 3, back greenish sides dark red. Style branches long. Nut ob- 

 ovoid or elliptic very obscurely trigonous, black. Xees. Wight. Con- 

 trib. 81. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXV. 489. Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XX. 286, XXI. 172. Fl. Brit. Ind. Aa. 615. C. liUoraHs, Br. Prodr. 

 216. C. tuherosus, BoJ. Hort. Maur. 379. Kunth. Enum. II. 50. 

 C. biiJboso-stoJoniferiis, Steud. Zoll. Verz. Ind. Arch. II. 62. Syn. 

 C,yp. 18. C. conjunctuSj Steud. l.c.c. C. lamprocarpus, Boeck. I.e. 

 490. 



Singapore (Kurz 2991), Changi (Eidley 1748, 1749); Pahang: 

 Pekan (Eidley 1000); Malacca: Tanjong Kling (Eidley 3123); 

 Penang: Bagan Jennal (Curtis 1953); Lankawi (Curtis 2138). 

 Distrib. Mauritius, India, Malay, China, Australia. 



This usually grows in the seashore sand, and is a short wiry plant 

 there, occasionally it occurs in wet tidal mud, and becomes much 

 taller and longer in all parts. 



15. C. DisTANS, Linn. f. Suppl. 103. Stoloniferus. Stems 

 usually rather distant stout tufted, bluntly triquetrous 18- inches tall 

 ■| inch through. Leaves shorter or as long \-^ inch wide. Bracts 

 (longest) 9 inches to 14 long deep green channelled. LTmbel com- 

 pound lax spreading, 8 to 14 inches across, rays moderately stout. 

 Spikelets ^ inch long very slender 4-q inch across dark red 10-20 flow- 

 ered. Glumes distant oblong elliptic obtuse, sides red, keel green. 

 Stamens 3. Nut oblong or narrowly elliptic black. Jacq. Ic. II. t. 

 299. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 207. Nees. Wight. Contrib. 88. Kunth. 

 Enum. II. 93. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXV. 612. Clarke Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XX. 290, XXI. 144. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 607. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 30. C. elatus, Eottb. Descr. and Ic. 37. t. 10 (not of Linn.). C. 

 nntans, Presl. Oken. Isis. XXI. 271. Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. XX. 

 291, and XXI. 143 (partly). C. Jacqurnii, Schrad. Linnaea. XL 

 Lift. Ber. 87. Steud. I.e. 49. C. gramimcola, Steud. Zoll. Verz. 

 Ind. Arch. II. 63. Svn. Cyp. 49. C. Kurrii, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 38. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 279. 



Singapore (Kurz 3001), (Kunstler 44), Tanglin, etc. (Eidley 

 34) Malacca (Griffith 6197), Pulau Undan (Cantley's Coll.); 



