Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 75 



5. Eleocharis, E. Br. 



Glabrous, rhizome sliort or long. Stems simple erect, with no 

 nodes. Leaves 0. Sheaths c_ylin(lric truncate or witli a small apical 

 tooth. Spikelet terminal solitary, erect. Ghmies imljricate all ronnd 

 obtuse. Lowest and most of the other glumes fertile. Uppermost 

 ones empty. Hypogynous l)ristles 8-5 rarely fewer. Stamens 3-1. 

 Anthers linear oblong not crested. Style linear with 2 or 3 In-anches 

 bare dilated constricted on the nut, but persistent. Xut obovoid, 

 piano convex when the style is bifid triquetrous (when trifid). 



Species 113. Whole world. 



Stems stout tall stoloniferous or rhizome „ 

 creeping. 



Stems septate within ro])Ust 



Stems septate slender 



Stems not septate terete . . . . 



Stems not septate tricjuetrous 

 Stems slender not septate. 



Spikelets cylindric 



Spikelets subglobose 



Stems setaceous very short 



1. E. PLATxYGiXEA, Br. Prod. 224. Ehizome stout. Stems 18- 

 26 inches tall rather stout transversely septate when dry. Spike 

 cylindric not Avider than the stem, f to 1 inch long. Glumes straw 

 colour when dry, oblong rounded with a low green keel. Style 2-3 

 fid. Nut 5-^ of length of glume obovate yellow smooth and sliining. 

 Bristles little longer scabrid. Miq. Fl. liid. Bat. III. 302. Clai-ke 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 625. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 68. E.tujnida, R. & S. 

 Syst. Mant. II. 86. Scirpus pi anta gin aides, Rottb. Descr. & Ic. 45. 

 t. 15. f. 2. S. plantagineus, Eetz. Obs. V. 14. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 212. 

 iS'. tvmillus, Eoxl). I.e. Limnochloa plantaginea, and L. tumida, Nees. 

 Wight. Contrib. 114. Heleocliaris plantaginea, Boeck. Linnaea. 

 XXXVI. 47 (in part). 



Singapore: Eeservoir (Eidley), Garden Lake; Malacca: Ayer 

 Panas, Chabau (Eidley 10010). Distrib. Tropics of the old world. 

 In grassy swamps in rice fields. 



2. E. EQUiSETiXA, Presl. Eel. Haenk. I. 195. Ehizome small 

 slender. Stems slender 12-15 inches long transversely septate when 

 dry. Spikes wider than stem cylindric subacute 5-^ inch long straw 

 coloured. Glumes bi'oad rounded not at all keeled. Style arms 2. 

 Xut obovoid white smooth. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. Q2G. Trim. 

 Fl. Cevl. V. 69. 



