Materials for a Flora of ilie Malayan Peninsula. 71 



Ghmies closely ini))i'icating sliort and l)roaJ small, mucronate. Ea- 

 cliilla with povsistcnt ol)long wings. Nut ovoid nearly half as long as 

 the glume. Kinith. p]num. II. 7\. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVI. 317. 

 Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI. 185. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 617. C. 

 involncraius, Poir. Lam. Encyc. VII. 253. C. verticUIatus, Iioxb. 

 Fl. Ind. I. 206. Kimth. I.e. 71. Xees. Wight. Contrib. 87. C. 

 digitatus, Xees. I.e. 85 (not Eoxb.). C. ohscurus, Xees. Hook. Kew 

 Jonrn. VI. 27. 



Johorc: Seudai Eiver (Eidley 1752); Penang: Bagan Jennal 

 (Curtis 1956). 



19. C. DIGITATUS, Eoxl). Fl. Lid. I. 205. Stem tall 3 or 4 feet 

 high stout triquetrous. Leaves long | broad often as long as the stem. 

 Umbel very large as much as 2 feet across, compound with long 

 spreading rays. Bracts usually longer tlian the umbel ^ inch across. 

 Bracteoles of secondary uml^els usually large. Spikes cylindric 2 inches 

 long, golden brown. Spikelets numerous very small ^-^ inch long 

 linear. Glumes narrow closely imbricate acute ovate. Nut oblong 

 ovoid I as long as the glume. Clarke Fl. Grit. Ind. VI. 61S. C. 

 aiiricornus, Benth. Fl. Austr. Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI. 188 

 (partlv). C. venustus, Nees. Wight. Contrib. 86. Kunth. Enum. 

 11. 68. Bolder. Linn. XXXVI. 316. C. Neesii, Kunth. I.e. 101. 

 Bckler. I.e. 315. Trim. Journ. Bot. XXIII. 140. C. quinquefiorus, 

 Steud. Syn. Cyp. 37 (part and C. iuheriferus, Syn. Cyp. 41. Papy- 

 rus venusius, Xees. Linnaea. X. 138. 



Johor: Batu Pahat (Eidley 10999); Pahang: Pekan (Eidley 

 1260); Selangor: Kuala Lumpur (Eidley); Malacca; Perak: Kuala 

 Kangsar (Eidley); Bindings: Bruas (Eidley); Sungei Ujong: Port 

 Dickson; Penang: Dato Kramat (Curtis ' 1872), (Wallich 3249, 

 3438 C). Common in ditches in the low country. The biggest of 

 our species. Distrib. All the tropics. 



20. C. ELATUS, L. Sp. PI. 67. Stem 3 to 4 feet tall. Leaves 

 nearly as long, half inch broad. Uml)el large compound, primary 

 rays 6 inches long. Spikes narrow cylindric dense. Spikelets brown 

 suberect linear 14 flowered. Wings of rachilla lanceolate caducous. 

 Anthers narrow oblong, crest -g- to half length of anther. Nut ^ to f 

 length of the glume. Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI. 189. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI. 618. 



Penang (Wallich 3341 A). Not seen. Perhaps the locality is 

 incorrect. Distrib. Madras, Malaya, Polynesia. 



4. Mariscus, Vahl. 



Plants of the habit of Cyperus. Stems usually tall, leaves grass- 

 like. Glumes persistent 2 lowest empty upper ones bisexual, racheola 

 disarticulating above the two lowest glumes, leaving a knob. 



