94 Materials fur a Flora uf ike Malayan Pcniiiaula. 



about i as lung. Stems sk-ndci'. Jli'acts narrow linear niueli longer 

 than the umbel. Umbel reduced to a head -]-J inch across. fSinkclets 

 sessile 4-20 in a head evlindrie light brown, -j- inch long or less. 

 (Jlumes rather nari'ow blunt keeled, silver grey or reddish, keel green. 

 Stamen 1 or more. Xut very snudl obovoid biconvex, yellowi.'^h 

 shining smooth. Nees. Wight. C'ontrib. ](>it. IJoeck. Linnaea. 

 XXXVll. 8. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. \[. G4U. 'riim. FI. Ceyl. V. o2. 

 K:^cirpus anjcnleus, IJottb. Descr. & Ic. 51. t. 17. llg. G. IJoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. I. 2'2o. ><clri)us iiiuiuuider, liottb. I.e. Ic. 50. t. 14. lig. 2 (not of 

 Fioxb.). 



Kelanlau: Kamposa (Ridley). I^are. Distrib. India and 

 Ceylon. 



14. F. siciticKA, l>r. Frodr. :^.'S. IJlii/.ome stout woody descend- 

 ing or lioriz(mtai. Ijcaves (> to 9 inclies long i inch wide white silky 

 crowded in tufts. Stems 4 to IG inches tall stitf ribbed. Umbel 

 simple or u>ually couipound, I'ays about ;> inclies long. Bi'acts short 

 hairy. Spikelets crowded in heads on the ends ol' the rays 4 to G or 

 inore together broad oblong | inch long. Glumes ovate hairy strongly 

 keeled brown, edges scarious. Style bifid. Xuty^ length of glume 

 obovoid smooth ])ale biconvex. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVll. 2'ii. 

 Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. G41. F. dcrum, Xees. «S: Meyen. Wight. 

 Contrib. 101. /''. dasiiphijUa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Uat. HI. o2;. F. rclii- 

 Una, Franch. Bull. Soc. Bot. Francli. Bull. Soc. But. France XX\'l. 

 87. 



.Tuhor Fast Coast: Jambu Laiang (Feilding); I'aliaug: Pekau, 

 Sungei Meang (Ridley 1522), Cherating River; Kelantan: Kami)osa 

 (Ridley). Distrib. India, China, Japan, Malaya, X. Australia. All 

 uj) the east coast in sandy places. 



§ o. TiatiiiaosTYLis. 



15. F. ti:m;i;a. R. eV S. Sysl. II. ^lant. 5.. vac. obhisala, Clai'ke 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. \'I. G4 2. Snui'll tufted plants, 1 to : inches tall with 

 fibrous roots. Leaves short 1-2 inclies long linear blunt, less than 

 i inch wide spiral. Stems very slender erect with a sinii)le umbel of 

 o or 4 ^>:])ikelets. 2 or mow on shoi't slender rays, central one sessile. 

 Bracts glume like. Spikelets i-] inch long lax, cylindrie subacute. 

 Chimes ovate yellowish or reddisli, keel stout hardly mucronate gla- 

 brous. Style {I'itid slender. Nul ovdid 1 length of the glume yellow, 

 minutely tuberculate hardly stalked. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVll. 2G. 

 Srir/nis ienellu.s, Koxb. Fl. Ind. 1, 221. Trirhctosli/lis Icnclhi, Xees. 

 Wight. C(mtrib. 10:5. 



SingajMJi'e: Taiiplin (Ridley s;'.), .iuroiig (11 iO). Bidadaii 

 (84:50) ;J'ahang: Kuala I'aliang (R'idley llM'r); .Malacca: Sungei 

 Baru Ulu (Ridlev llJiH.): Fenang: Telok Bahang (Curtis 18G;). 



