90 Materially for a Flora of the, Malayan Peninsula. 



Singapore: Clianoi (TJidltn' IMl): Malacca: Avor Koroli (T?id- 

 loy lO^-i'.S), Pulau Bcsar, Aycr Panas (1()2()), Malacca town {'?,ry'M\) ; 

 Ponang (Curtis 18()8). Distril). India, Borneo, China, Australia. 

 Damp sandy spots. 



•"). F. POLYTRiciioiDES, \'a\\\. Emim. II. 248. Stems 8-12 inches 

 tall slender wiry with brown sheaths at the base, upper ones cylindric 

 truncate, with 2 very narrow leaf 1^-3 inches long. Spikelets 1 or 

 2, i-ai'ely 3, oblong obtuse, with a narrow longer leaflike bract ^ inch 

 long. Spikelets \-\ inch long. (^ilumes oblong rounded obtuse, 

 shortly mucronate keeled, red brown and mealy pubescent. Style 

 bi'oad linear villous l)rown bifid. Nut white ^ as long as the glume 

 obovate biconvex smooth. Xees. Wight Contrib. 9G. Clarke Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. Yl. 632. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 40. F. sul-hulhosa, Boeck. 

 Flora XLI. 598. F. juncea, Boeck. Linnaea. XXXA'II. 4 (not of 

 Koem & Sclmltes). Scirpus poli/lrichoides, Eetz. Obs. IX. 11. 



Singapore: Sungei Jurong (Eidlev 894T), Oalang (8399); 

 Malacca (Criffith): Pahang: Pekan (IJidley) ; Penang (Wallich 

 3;")32). Distril). India. Malaya, and Australia. In salt mud l)y tlie 

 sea. 



(). F. scTTOT-xoTDKS, Vahl. Enum. 1 T. 28(5. Stems tufted 4 to 

 12 inches tall I'ather slender and sometimes thickened at the l)as(\ 

 T>eaves very narrow as long or longei' than the stem, but usually much 

 .-hortcr half as long. Spikelets 1 or 2 ovoid blunt pale ^-i| inch 

 long, (ilumes broad obtuse ovate keeled, rililied. Style villous above 

 bifid. Xut stalked ovate, pale bi'own | the length of the glume 

 biconvex. Xees. Wight. Contiib. 9*. Boeck. Linnaea. XXX\'JI. 

 o (part). Clarke Fl. P.rit. lud. VT. fi3f. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 49. 

 F. hixpicaia, Xees. I.e. 9i. Boeck. I.e. <l (pai'tly). /•'. invonKlans, 

 Stcud. Syn. Cyp. 10^. F. poh/murplia, xiw. dcpaiijierala, Boeck. in 

 Flora LYHT. 111. S(irjni.<i schoenoides, Ketz. Obs. V. 14. S. monO' 

 sfarJn/us, Koen. IJoxb. Fl. Ind. L 219. Spreng. Xeue. Entdeck. III. 

 11. 7. bispirata, P. & S. Syst. Mant. II. (il. /. rnrifiora, Schrad. P. 

 & S. I.e. 65. EJeoqiion monoslarlnpi, Dietr. Sp. PI. IF. 9\. Ahllgaar- 

 dia nervosa, Presl. Pel. llaenk. 1. 180. 



Singapore (Kurz); Malacca: Chabau (Pidley 10009), Aver 

 Panas (1686) : IVnang (King), Tclok Bahang (Curtis 1822, 18:0). 



T. F. j'Ai'ciiT.oiiA, P. Br. l*rod. 225. Stems very slender, form- 

 ing large round tufts (j to 12 inches across, 6-14 inches tall leafless, 

 or occasionally with a leal' on one of the lower sheaths. Spikelet 

 very small i- inch long, green lanceolate acute. Glumes narrow 

 lanceolate suljacute few, .'? or 4 nut bearing. Style trifid narrow(>d 

 upwards from a broad base, villous at the top. Xut obovoid wbilt^ 

 1ubercl(Ml ^ the length f)f the glume. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. \'I. 

 633. F. f'/lfoniiis, Kiinth. l-hium. IT. 221. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. HI. 



