Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula. 97 



Nut obovoid yellowish brown thickly tubercled. Clavke Fl. Brit. lud. 

 VI. G-tr. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 58. F. retusa, Thw. Eniim. 349. 

 Boeck. Liimaea. XXXVII. 46. Hance. Loud. Journ. Bot. XVI. 113. 

 Singapore: Changi (Eidley 1551b), Teluk Kurau (10448); 

 Pahang near Pekan (Eidley 1551); Malacca (Griffith 6531). Dis- 

 trib. Ceylon, China, Borneo. Abundant in dry spots in Singapore. 



21. F. NiGROBRUNNEA, Tliw. Enum. 434. Ehizome very short 

 and stout, with unusually large roots. Leaves numerous 3-6 inches 

 long ^ inch wide stiff and blunt, bases scabrous on the edge. Stem 

 8 to 30 inches tall. Umbel simple compound or decompound. Bracts 

 short ^ inch long stiff. Spikelets crowded on the ends of 2 or 3 stout 

 recurved rays sometimes all solitary ^ inch long. Glumes dark 

 brown few ranked or obscurely distichous, oblong keeled and shortly 

 mucronate. Style trifid. Nut obovoid yellow brown warty or nearly 

 smooth. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 648.' Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 63. F. 

 suhtetrastacliya, Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVII. 50. F. pycnostachya, 

 Hance. Journ. Bot. XV. 338. Ahilgaardia Eragrosiis, Boeck. I.e. 55. 



Kedah: Gunong Jerai (Eidley 5151), at 3000 feet elevation. 

 Distrib, India and Cambodia. 



§ 4. Abilgaardia. 



23. F. ruscA, Benth. Gen. PI. III. 1048. Ehizome very short or 

 none. Leaves about ^ length of the stem very narrow linear. Stems 

 18 inches tall slender weak. Umbel of 4 or 5 rays slender about 1 

 inch long. Bracts very short. Spikelets solitary flattened ^ inch 

 long. Glumes acuminate mucronate brown pubescent. Stamens. 

 Style trifid. Nut oblong or obovoid narrowed at the base three 

 angled yellowish brown smooth very obscurely warty. Clarke Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. 649. F. cinnamometorum, Hance. Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XIII. 133. F. Kampenhoeveneri , Boeck. Engler. Bot. Jahrb. V. 505, 

 Gussonia paucifora, Brugn. Bot. Duperr. Voy. 171. t. 34. B. Ahil- 

 gaardia fvsca, Nees. Wight. Contrib. 95. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVII. 

 54. A. panciflora, Kunth, Enum, II. 349. Schoenuspuherulus, C. 

 A. Meyer Cyp. Nov. 3. t. 1. Rhynchospora anomala, Steud. Syn. 

 Cvp. 149. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 337. IsoJepis lonqispica, Steud. "i.e. 

 104. 



Singapore: Sandy fields Holland Eoad (Eidley); Penang: 

 Government Hill (Kunstler 1690), (Curtis 3175). 



15. Lepidosperma, Labill. 



Stiff stoloniferous plants. Stems leafy at the base only. Panicle 

 of many spikelets contracted. Spikelets of 5 to 10 glumes containing 

 2 to 3 axillary flowers, rarely producing more than one nut, the lowest 

 flower always male. Glumes all similar. Hypogynous bristles 6, 



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