92 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



var. pJiirisiriaia, Clarke I.e. p. HGO. F. pilosa of most authors not 

 of Valil. F. iomentosa, of \'alil. Emim. H. 290. A tall plant, stems 

 about 3 feet, leaves and sheaths espeeially roughly hairy, nut often 

 more or less tubercular on the shoulders. 



Singapore: C'hua C'hu Kaug, C'liasseriau Estate (Ridley). Dis- 

 tribution. All warm countries. Native name " Eumput Parah," 

 " Iiumput Purun Batu." • 



9. F. AESTIVALIS, Vahl. Enum. IT. 288. Annual small tufted 

 f)lant, 2-10 inches tall. Leaves aliout half the length of the stem or 

 often less linear ^^-^ inch across puljescent or nearly glabrous. Stems 

 strongly rii»bed moderately slender, t^mbel compound or decompound 

 1-2 inches across. S|)ikelets solitary yellow brown nunuM'ous oJ)long, 

 sul)cyliudric -,!; to -] inch long, (ilumes narrow lanceolate strongly 

 keeled and mucronate s(|uarrose. Stamens 1-2. Style biiid slendcM-. 

 ISTut obovoid smooth yellowish shining shortly stalked and beaked ^ 

 the length of the glume, reticulate, not ribbed. Xees. Wight. Contrib. 

 102. Eoeck. Linnaea. XXXVIF. 11. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. YI. 637. 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 51. F. Griffifhiana, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 110. F. 

 dirlininnia, Boeck. Flora XLII. 10 (not Vahl.). F. iricholepis, Mi(|. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 1 F. 319. F. Gri/fiUtii, Boeck. Flora XLIIl. 241. Srir- 

 pus aestivalis, Eetz. Obs. IV. 12. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 207. 



Singapore Gardens (Eidley 1739); Malacca (Griffith 6311); 

 Pahang: Pekan and along the river as far as Kuala 'remb(>ling. 

 Rumpin River (Ridley 1208) ; Oindiugs "Isles Samliilang " l\am])cn 

 hovener (probably Pulau Scmbilan, Dindings). Disti'ib. India, Cliina 

 and Jajiau. Malaya and Austi-alasia. Native name " Rumput Sural." 



10. F. FKRRUGiXEA, Vahl. Enuui. II. 291. Rhizome stout or 

 hardly any. Stems 10 to 30 inches tall base thickened and covered 

 with hard shining dark brown scales, al)ovc ribbed angled or flattened. 

 Leaves usually none, occasionally occurring very narrow linear blunt, 

 4 to inches long. IJmbcd sim))le or comj)ound contracted, 1-3 inches 

 long or 5 to 7 more rarely as many as 30 spikelets. Spikelets j-^ 

 inch long oblong cylindric acute. Glumes broad i-ounded, mucronate, 

 red brown finely pul)cscent. Style broadly linear villous. Nut small 

 ovoid broad J, the length of the glume dark brown, vciy linelv reti- 

 culated not ribbed. Delile Fl. Aegvpt 10. t. 6. fig. 3. Xees. Wight. 

 Contrib. 97. Boeck. Linnaea. XXNVII. IG. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 \'I. G38. Trim. Fl. Cevl. X. 53. F. arvensis, Vahl. Enum. IT. 291. 

 F. marr/liiata, T.abill. Serf. Austro-Caledon. H. t. l(i. f. 1. F. Jlox- 

 barfjliii, l)i(4r. Sp. PI. II. 102. F. Irispicaia and ?\ confiiiis. Steud. 

 Syn. Cyp. 101 and 115. F. ruriophyUa, Mi(|. Fl. Ind. Bat. 111. 325. 

 F. ochreaia, Boeck. Flora XLI. 5!)9. F. andanuniica, Kurz. xVndanum 

 Rep. Appendix B. 21. Srirpns ferruyinens, L. Sp. PI. 74. N. 

 arvensis, Retz. Obs. TV. 11 (not Roxb.). ^. globnlosiis, Roxb. Fl. 



