Matcriah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 83 



liel. ITaeiik. 1. 1U9. Svliocnus ruber, Lour. Fl. Coeliiiieh. T. -53. 

 Mori^ia Wallichti, Xees. in Ediiib. Xew riiil. Journ. 18o-i, 3G5. 

 Wight. Contrib. 115. Uaplosiijlia Mei/ciiii, Xecs. Limiaoa. IX. 

 (1831), gOo. Wight. Contrib. 115 (partly). Sphoeroschocnus 

 Wallichii, Arnott & Xees. Xov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. XIX. 

 Suppl. I. 9T. Ccplialoschoenus parvus, Xees. I.e. lUO. Marisvus uiii- 

 hcUatus var. protcriur, Zoll. \'erz. Ind. Arch. II. Go. 



Singapore: Jurong (Ridley ITSob), Seletar (l(25c) ; Malacca 

 (Giriffith), Bukit Briiang (liidley 3533), Alor Gajah; Pahang: Kuala 

 I'ahang (Kidley i:25). Distrib. 'Fropics of the Old World. Com- 

 mon in dry open country among bracken. 



2. E. MALASICA, Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. \l. GU). Stems rather 

 stout It, to 2 feet tall, leafy to near the top. Ix'aves rather flaccid 

 12 inches or more by | inch wide. Spikelets in a terminal spike of 

 about 5 sessile lieads ^ inch across, with a single long leafy bract to 

 each. Glumes pale brown acuminate. Style slender branches 2 very 

 short, base conic. Bristles very slender twice as long as the nut. Xut 

 obovoid stalked bicoi^ex dark chestnut brown shining smooth ob- 

 scurely transversely l^arred beak short conic. 



Singapore: Bedok (Ridley 5T92), Bukit Mandai (80); Johor : 

 Kota Tinggi (Ridley); Malacca (Griffith 6358), Ayer Keroh (Rid- 

 ley). Distrib. Borneo. In grassy swamps local. 



3. R. AUREA, Vahl. Enum. II. 229. Stems stout 2-3 feet tall 

 leafy for their whole length subtriquetrous, scabrid on the edges. 

 Corymhs axillary and terminal usually peduncled, several on each 

 stem. Spikelets j inch long in clusters of 3 to 5 on the ends of the 

 ultimate branch lets of the corymbs. Glumes 7 or fewer, lower ones 

 short empty. Uppermost male only or empty lanceolate acute 5th 

 fertile ovate lanceolate acute brown. Bristles G white scabrid longer 

 than the nut. Style very long. Xut obovoid truncate, with a very 

 large conic vellow beak longer than the nut and uppermost glume. 

 Benth. Fl. Hongkong 39G. Fl. Austral. YII. 349. Miq. Fh Ind. 

 Bat. III. 33G. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVIl. G2G. Clarke Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. YI. GTO. Trim. Fl. CcaI. V. 83. B. artkuhda, IJ. & B. Syst. 

 Mant. II. 49. Miq. I.e. 33T. iScirpus cori/ntbosus, Linn. Anioen. 

 Acad. IV. 303. Schoenus articulatus, Koxb. Fl. Ind. L 184. S. 

 surlnuniensis, Rottb. Descr. & Ic. 68. t. 21. fig. 1. Cahjpirostylis 

 fiorida, Xees. Mart. Braz. Cvp. 138. t. 13. Cephaloschoeuus arli- 

 culatas, Xees. Edinl). Xew Phil. Journ. 1834, 2GG. Wight. Contrib. 

 115. Common over the whole peninsula. 



Singapore: Tanglin, etc. (Cantley, Hullett, Kurz 3006), (Kunst- 

 ler 131) etc.; Malacca: Bukit Bruang (Derry 408), (Gaudichaud 

 93); Pahang: Pekan (liidlev) ; Selangor: Kuala Lumpur; Penang 

 (Wallich 3424), (Curtis 1256); Province Wellesley : Legeli TonioU 



