84 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



(Maeliadd). Dislrib. All Hit' tro])ies. Abundant in open wet 

 ground. '" liumput Sondayan " and " Sunayan." 



4. li. ciLAUCA, A'ahl. Enuni. II. 2;33. var. chincnsis, Clarke Fl. 

 Brit. hid. \l. (il'Z. lililzonie short and thick woody. tStcnis all 

 over 2 feet moderately stout or slender, leafy to the top. Leaves 8-10 

 inches long ^'^-J inch wide linear acuminate. Corymbs small axillary 

 and terminal ^ inch or more long lax, Spikelets ^ inch long, or less 

 clustered. Glumes red brown acute keeled G or 7 ovate cuspidate. 

 Bristles shoii scabrid. Style brandies long slender. Xut obovoid 

 biconvex brown slightly transversely wrinkled, beak conic broader 

 than the truncate top of the nut and about ^ of its length. 'I'rim. 

 Fl. Ceyl. A'. 8G. 11. chincnsis, Bocck. I.e. 586. 7'. (/huica, Boeck I.e. 

 oSo (partly). 7i. lararain, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey. A'oy. 98 

 (not (uiudichaud ). A', laxa, Thwaites Enum. oo2 (not of A'alil). 



Singapoi'c: Balestier l^lain (I^idley 9144), Changi (1T22), 

 Bhdvan Mati (o^Ul). Distrib. Ceylon, Tenasserim, Matiagascar, Cari- 

 mon Islands, Borneo, China and Sandwich Islands. Typical. R. 

 f/laaca, occurs in Africa. Japan, Australia and the Tropics of the 2sew 

 ^\'(»l■ld. Tile plant grows in sandy spots generally ]iear the sea. 



12. AcTixoscuoEXUfs, Bentli. 



(ilabrous herbs, stems numei'ous crowded on a shoi'l I'bizome very 

 slender illiform. Leaves veiw narrow few. Spikelets snudl narrow 

 sessile in a single terminal glob(jse head, (ilumes 4 to 8 distichous, 

 upper ones mucrouate willi a long ])oinl, 1 to 3 bisexual. Hypo- 

 gynous bristles aljsent. Anthers o. Style triiid "or bifid. Xut ob- 

 ovoid trigonous })apillose or smooth. 



Species i Asiatic. 



A. FiLiFORMis^ Bentli. Ic. J'l. XIW oo. t. lu [G. var. cliinensii^. 

 IJhizome very short, roots long and wiry. Leaves few to about ^ 

 length of the stem very narrow linear. Stems numerous weak slender 

 8-18 inches or more. Spikelets in a small dense head about \ incli 

 through. Chimes -!-() lanceolate acuminate brown with a stout o 

 ribbed green keel ending in a long uecurved mucro. Flowers usual- 

 ly 1 only perfc(4, lowest glumes empty. Style trifid. Xut obovoid 

 trigonous small |)aie smooth. .\rlliro^li/lls fiHfornii)<, 'J'liw, I'mum. 

 oo3. Boeck. Linnaea. XXX VL 524. Artlin)i<(i//ls chiHensis, ]5enlh. 

 Fl. Hongkong o!J<. Fiinbristylis aciinoschoenm^, Clarke Fl. Brit, Ind. 

 VI. G51. 



Ferak (Wray o5l), (Kunsllcr 33:3), Taiping Waterfall Bocks 

 (Kidley) ; Malacca: Mount Ophir (!». Derry G4()) ; Penang: (iovern- 

 meiit Hill (Curtis iS(iG) ; Kedali: (iunong Jerai (h'idley 5110); 

 IVrak top of (Junong liatu riilili (Wray 354). Distrib. Carimon, 

 St. Barbe and J.ingga Islands, Hongkong. Tro])ical form, Ceylou. 



