78 Malcrlah fur a Flura of Ihc Mahii/an Peninsula. 



to 20 ill a la-iul. about I inch long, brown. Glumes ovale lanceolate 

 subacute chestnut with a green keel, inucronate, minutely ciiiate at 

 the ki{\ge. JSut obovate trigonous smooth pale with a minute black 

 Initton. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. XL GoL Trim. Fl. Ccyl. Y. QQ. 

 11. Wa/lirhiaiia and B. Willdenoiviij Kunth. I.e. 209, 210, Scirpus 

 harhalus, Eottb. Descr. and I.e. 52. t. 1<. fig. 4. Bocck. Linnaea. 

 XXXVI. 'iol (excl. var. B). 8c. Antarctkiis, Thumb. Fl. Cap. 96. 

 IJoxb. Fl. Ind. 1. 223 (not of Linn.). Sc. nwiiandcr, Uoxb. I.e. 222. 

 hoh'pis barhaia, Br. Prodr. 222. Nees. in Wight. Contrib. 109. Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. 111. 310. /. Wallichiana, IJocni & Schultes Syst. Mant. 

 II. ooo. J. ( a [til J avis, Don. Prodr. 39 (not Eoem & Schultes). /. 

 CuDiingl &: J. invoJucdlaia, .Steud. Syn. Cyp. 101. Finihristylis 

 monandra, P. & S. Mant. II. 59. F. burbuta, Bentli. Fl. Austral. YII. 

 321. 



Singapore ( Ivurz 3o02), Cliaiigi, Tanglin (Pidley), l*ongol 

 (Murton) ; Malacca (Maingay) : Paliang: Pekan (Pidley 1238); 

 Penang: Batu Feringi (Curtis SSo) ; '^J'riggann : Pulau Ketam (Pid- 

 ley). Distrib. All warm regions. Very coiiiiiKui in sandy spots. 



I came across in Pekan, a form in which the lieads of spikelets 

 were nearly an inch across with few slender rays -^ inch or more long 



bearing solitaiT sjjikek'ts on Ihe end, the spikelets j iiieh long. 



2. B. 1'11'.i:i;lj.a. Kunth. i-hiuui. II. 213. IIal)it of last species. 

 Stems G to 14 inches long pubescent. Leaves pubescent hardly half 

 as long. Spikelets crowded into a head (rarely lax). Glumes pubes- 

 cent, strongly keeled with a longer muci-o. Xiit larger obovoid tri- 

 gonous transversely wrinkled. Clarke Fl. Brit. ind. YI. G52. Scir- 

 jius pubeniliis, Poir. Encvcl. VI. TGT. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVI. 

 IGT. 8. }yi(jJiliaini-'<, Boeck. I.e. TG5 (part). I.svlrpis (/raci/is, Xees. 

 Wight. C(mtrib. 109. Kunth. I.e. V. 217.' /. pnbvrula, Steutl Syn. 

 Cyp. 103. Ci/perus pubcscens, Steud. I.e. 50. 



Singapore (Burbidge), (Cantley's Coll. 3015, 3059), Changi 

 (l{i(lley'i:2;) ; Malacca (Xunstler 35, 36) ; Perak (Cantley's Coll.) ; 

 I'enang (Curtis). Dislrib. Ct'ylon. India, Malaya. Mueh rai'er than 

 the preceding. 



8. SciKi'ts. L. 



(Jlahi'ous herbs, short or tall, leafy at the base only or leafless. 

 Stems terete or ti'igonous. Sj)ikelets 1 to many tei-minal or lateral, 

 oblong or ovoid, (ilumes spirally imbricated, lowest 2 and uppermost 

 ein])ly. P>ristles absent or 2 to 7 scabrid. Stamens 1 to ;>. Style 

 trilid or bilid slender, base not dilated. Nut obovoid lrig(Uious or 

 biconvex with no button on tJie top. 



Species 125. All temj)erate and lro|tical regions. 



