88 Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula. 



Tall or f^bort leaves tufted stiff. Spikelets 



^ inch long . . . . . . . . 12. F. spalhacen. 



Spikelets ehistered usually capitate. 



Umbel reduced to a head, annual . . 13. F. argent ea. 

 Umbel simple or compound. jRhizome 



stout . . . . . . . . . . 1.4. F. serirea. 



§ 3. Trtciielostylis. Spikelets usual- 

 ly numerous. Glumes not disticbous. Style 

 trifid not flattened glabrous. Xut more or 

 less trigonous. 

 Spikelets all or mostly solitary. 



Small annual. Spikelets few . . . . 15. F. tcncrn. 



Tall plants spikelets numerous. 

 Spikelets subglobose. Xut tubercled. 



TiCaves narrow long. Spikelets ,^ inch 

 long . . . . , . . , . . 1(). /'\ niiUacea. 



Usually leafless. Spikelets ^ inch long K. F. glohnlom. 

 Spikelets narrow lanceolate very numerous. 



Nut tubercled IS. F. coniplanala. 



Xut trabeculate not tubercled . . . . 1!). F. aspcrrinia. 



Spikelets clustered (occasionallv solitarv 

 in 21). 



Stems very slender, leaves Xi'vy narrow 20. F. leptnchnh. 



Stems stout, leaves large stiff . . . . 2\. F. nifjrobrnnnea. 



^ 4. ARiLGAAitniA. Spikelets solitary. 

 (Jlumes at bas(> distichous or suhdisticbous 

 Upi)er ones spirnl. Style li-ifid. 

 Xut obscurely warty . . . . . . . . 22. F. fusca. 



§ 1. ELEOCTrAI]OIDi:S. 



1. F. TicTiiAcoxA, I'.r. Trod. 22(i. A tufted plant (i-'? I incbes 

 tall, with short narrow leaves, often reduced to sheaths nearlv but 

 somytimes U inch long. Stems slender wiry. Spikelet solitary erect, 

 conic dense i-f inch long hroad. (;lumes pale brown oblong rounded 

 striate. Style linear hilid arms short villous to base. Xut narrow 

 cylindric stalked half as long as the glume [)lano-convex straw 

 coloured reticulate. Clarke Flor. Brit. hid. \"i. (JHl. Bentb. Fl. 

 Austral. VII. 305. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. \. is. /-'. 'y/indrorarpa. Kimtli. 

 Enum. II. 222. Bocck. Linn. XXX\II. :. Kurz. .lourn. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XXXIX. II. 8.'). /'. (ihjirlrn.^. Stend. Svn. C'vp. lo:. Mi.]. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 31(5. F. AnioHII. Thw. ibiuiu 3is'. Mis,lt<isnara 

 efuJiata, Boeck. Flora XLIII. 113. 



