86 Materials for a Flora of ihe Malayan Peninsula. 



J -J inch ihrougli. Stem loafy to the lax slender panicle. Panicle 

 about S inches lont; strict. Spikelets clustered 1 to 3, i-| inch long 

 brown, (Jhnnes lanceolate keeled, glabrous. Flowers 2-4, but only 

 one (rarely 2) nut produced. Style tritid with long slender branches. 

 Bristles none. Nut as long as the glume ol)long ellipsoid with a 

 small l)lunt conic hairv beak, shining ])right chestnut. Kunth. Enum. 

 II. ;504. Benth. Fl. "Austral. VJI. 404. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 

 V)W^. C lid pel fir ra (iloiueraia, Xees. Schm. PI. Preiss. TI. 16. Miq. 

 Ann. ]\Ius. I^ugd. Bat. IT. 14(5. Baumea ruhifjinosa & B. Brownei, 

 Boeck. Linnaea. XXXYIIl. 211, 2-12. 



Singapore: Swampy spots near Die sea C'hangi (Pidley o700). 

 Pare. Distrib. China, Japan, Australia and Xew Zeahiud. The 

 glumes in the Australian plant are villous on the edge I)ut quite 

 glabrous in the Singapore plant. 



2. C. UXDULATUM, Thw. Enum. 353, Phizome short and stout, 

 the plant forming large tussocks. Leaves numerous wiry G inches to 

 a foot long very narrow. Stems 18 inches to 2 I'eet long slender stifl'. 

 Panicle o-G inches long diffuse with long narrow leafy bracts. Spike- 

 lets in clusters of 2 to .") from the angles of the zig-zag branches, 

 cinnamon brown, lax. (ilumes narrow lanceolate not distichous 

 keeled acute, 2 lowest smaller empty. Bristles G hardly ^ as long as the 

 nut. Xut hardiv -^^ inch long sessile ovoid bi'own. beak verv small 

 hairy. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. G74. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V, 86. Le- 

 pidosspernia ccyloniciim, X'^ees. Linnaea. XXXVIII. 232. Tricostu- 

 Itirld /iinbristi/Ioides, Benth. Fl. Austral. \il. ;l.S3. Cdrplut junn- 

 form IX, Boeck. Linnaea. \. 38. 2GT. 



Pahang: Pckan (Pidley 2) in sandy open country. Distrib. 

 Ceylon. Lai)uau. Sumatra, JJorneo. Austi-alia. 



;'.. C. Matxgayi, Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 674. Tufted plant 

 with a short stout rhizome. Leaves at the base distichous swoi'd- 

 shaped bright green, acuminate 3 feet long by ^-\ inch wide. Stem 

 about 1 feet tall or more, with 1 or 2 leaves paniculate with numerous 

 lax bi'anclics. Spikelets in small clusters peduncled from the angles 

 of the siniuite branches dee)) brown ovoid, (ilumes ovate subacute 

 edges ciliate 2 or 3 lower ones sterile. 2-4 fertile. Bristles 6. hairy 

 above. Style trifid. Xut trigonous inrgid shortly stalked benk long 

 jiyi'amidai liairy. 



Malacca: Mount Ophir (({rillith (;;;(» I). (Ilullett RM). (Pidley 

 31-10), (Cuming 237!)), and oilier collectors. On wet rocks on 

 I'adang IJatu. and Ciunong ]\I(M-ing at an altitude of 3000 feet, 

 I'crak: Cunong P.abii at T.OOO feet alt. (Wray 3882). Only known 

 locaiitirs in the peninsula, but it fllso (tide Clarke) grows in Celebes. 

 The Afalavs gave the name i^f ".leriiigu Laut *" to it (lit. Sea Amrus 

 calamus). 



