Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 85 



Occurs usually on rocks by streams, from 1000 to TOOO feet alt. 1)ut 

 occasionally lower, 



13, ScHOEXus, Linn. 



Wiry herbs, stems leafy or not, leaves narrow wiry, Spikelets 

 capitate or panicled. Glumes distichons 3 or more lower ones empty, 

 1 to 4 fertile, terminal ones empty, Hypogynons bristles present or 

 not. Stamens 3. Style trifid, slender not constricted at the base 

 nor enlarged below. jSTut trigonous. 



Species 60. Mostly Australian, with a few in the temperate 

 Northern and Southern hemispheres. 



ScH. CALOSTACHYUS, Poir. Eucycl. Suppl. IT. 2."il. Ehizome 

 woody horizontal. Stem 3| feet tall wiry stiff leafy. Leaves many 

 at the base, above distant on the stem, lower ones 6-8 inches, upper 

 ones 3 inches or less, wiry narrow. Spikelets solitary in the axils of 

 shoi't upper leaves on pedicels slender ^ inch long or less cylindric 

 conic I to nearly 1 inch long. Glumes brown about 10 acute, lowest 

 4 to 8 empty close fitting short upper 3 or 2 fertile, edges hairy. 

 Bristles ^ as long as the nut white. Style trifid. Xut ovoid trigo- 

 nous black sunk in the hollow of the zig-zig rachis. Benth. Fl. 

 Austral VIL 368. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. Yl. 67 3. Choetospora calos- 

 tachya, Br. Prodr. 233. Cyclocampe Waigouensis, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 

 156. Cycloscarpa Waigonensis, Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 339. 



Singapore: Changi (Eidley 1724); Pahang: Pekan (Eidley 

 1397), Distrib, Malay Islands and Australia and Polynesia, In 

 sandy heaths, but it also grows on rocks above the Waterfall, on the 

 Carimon isles. 



14. Cladium, p. Brown, 



Large perennial herbs, usually glabrous or the inflorescence hairy. 

 Stems leafy or not. Leaves flat linear or distichous equitant sword- 

 shaped. Spikelets panicled in clusters often sessile at the angles of 

 the flexuous branches of the panicle, small brown. Glumes spirally 

 imbricate, lowest 1-4 empt}', 1 to 3 floriferous terminal ones male or 

 empty, Hypogynous bristles small or none. Stamens 3 or 2. Stjde 

 slender trifid base dilated fused with the top of the nut. Xut small, 

 large or small pyramidal or button-shaped beak. 



Species, 44. Distribution the whole world. 



Leaves terete .. ,. .. .. .,1, C. glomeratum. 



Leaves flat narrow . . . . . . . . 2. C. nndulatuin. 



Leaves broad sword-shaped distichous . . . . 3, C. Maingayi. 



1. C. GLo.\rERATUM, P. Br. Prod. 23T. A stoloniferous plant, 

 about 3 feet tall, with a few terete leaves as tall tips linear acute 



