70 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Selaiigor: Kuala Lumpur (liidloy) ; Perak (Wray) ; Pcnang: Sopoy 

 lines (Curtis 1832), Dato Kramat (Curtis 1785); Kelantan : Kam- 

 posa (l»idley). Distrib. Africa, Tropical Asia, Polynesia and 

 America. Very common in ditches, and daiup waste ground. Xativo 

 name '" Eumput Wangi." 



16. C. rnocEiius, Pottb. Dcscr. and Ic. 29 t. 5. f, 3. Phizome 

 slender. Stem rather distant 3 feet tall stout shortly 3 angled. 

 Leaves long over 2 feet, and -\ inch wide. Bracts as long or longer 

 than umbels. LTmbel lax 5-7 spikes occasionally branched 3 inches 

 long or little more, rays rather slender. Spikelets remote |-1 inch 

 long -J inch wide 20-46 flowered. Glumes broad ovate quite blunt 

 red keel paler, ribs 3-1 on each side. Nut obovoid half as long as the 

 glume. Xeos. Wight. Contrib. 83. Poxb. Fl. Ind. I. 203. Kuntk 

 Enum. [I. 72. Boeck. Flora. LYIIL 84. Clarke Journ. Linn. Soa 

 XXI. l.-)2. Fl. Brit. Ind. YI. 610. C. ornatus, Br. Prodr. 217. C. 

 carnosns, Xees. I.e. C. anioijcnsis, Hance. Ann. Sc. Xat. Ser. V. 249. 

 C. Hei/nei, Boeck. Linn. XXXV. 600. 



Malacca: rice fields (Pidley 3536); Penang Waterfall (Curtis 

 1787); Kelantan: Kamposa (Pidley). Distrib. Tropical Asia and 

 Australia. 



1^. C. MALACCEXSTS, Lam. 111. I. 116. Phizome stout woody 

 creeping. Stems distant stout triangular 2 to 3 feet tall. Leaves few 

 short, sheathing for 6 or 8 inches, limb broad ^ inch. Bracts long 

 broad. Umbel 3-4 inches long, rays usually short, sometimes com- 

 pound, usually congested. Spikelets narrow linear ^ inch long, 6-12 

 ilowei'ed. (ilumes boat-shaped l)lunt, no keel, reddish, edge paler 

 ratluM' distant. Nut narrowly oblong, trigonous 4 length of glume. 

 Kunth. Enum. II. 71. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXV. 603. Clarke Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XXI. 147. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. 608. C. odoratus, L. Sp. 

 PI. 46 (partly). C. incurratus, Poxb. Fl. Ind. I. 196. C. Pangorei, 

 (not Poir.). C. Wallichii, Wight. Contrib. i^:]. C. spaniopla/Uus, 

 Poxb. I.e. 202). r. scoparius, De Cue Xouv. Ann. Mus. III! 359 

 Steud. Cyp. 2L Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 267. 



Singapore: Balestier Plain (Pidley 5883), (Hullett 239); Pa- 

 hang: Pekan (Pidley 1201); Malacca; Tringganu : Pulau Ketam 

 (Pidlev) ; Kelantan: Kamposa (Pidley) ; Lankawi Islands (Pidlev) ; 

 Kechih': Alor Star (Curtis 2110) ; Province Wellesley (Curtis 2165). 

 Distrib. Persia, Indo-Malaya, Australia. Common in tidal rivers in 



lUlld. 



18. C. iJADTATrs, Vahl. Enum. IT. 369. A tall plant ] to 3 feet 

 liigh. Leaves % inch wide or less, about f length of the steui. Fmbel 

 simple or com])oun(l about 6 inches across, rays 3 inches or less. 

 Bracts long 12 inches or less. Spikes 1 inch long ^ inch across very 

 dense. Spikelets i-J inch long of 13-15 glumes yellowish brown. 



