08 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



ovate with a setaceous or triangular tip, ver}' small. Stamens 3. 

 Style trifid branches long, base glabrous fused into the nut. Nut 

 smooth trigonous. 



Species 3G. All Australian except one. 



L. ciiiNENSE^ Nees. & Meyen. Linnaea. IX. 302. Nov. Act. Nat. 

 Cur, XIX. (Suppl. I)^ 117. Ehizome short and stout, leaves terete 

 18-2-1 inches long, acute glaucous. Stem 3 feet or more terete glau- 

 cous panicle 3 to 4 inches long very dense. Spikelets -J inch long 

 compact. Glumes blackish brown oblong truncate mucronate sub- 

 distichous. Bristles oblong with an acute point, broad, yellowish as 

 long as the narrowed base of the nut. Style longer than tlie nut. 

 Nut oblong trigonous narrowed at both ends yellow dotted with dark 

 red. Benth. Fl. Hongkong 398. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXYIII. 329. 

 Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. YI. 676. 



Malacca: Mount Opliir (Griffith 6115), (Eidley 3127). Distrib. 

 South China. Very rare. In one spot by the stream on Padang Batu. 



16. Gahnia, J. E, & G. Forster. 



Large coarse tufted plants. Leaves usually numerous and sca- 

 brid. Stems with nodes, bearing leaves or leaflike bracts to the top. 

 Panicle dense spikelike or lax nodding. Spikelets clustered usually 

 dark l)rown or black, 1 to 2 flowered upper one alone nut bearing. 

 Glumes imbricated all round lower, 3 or more empty keeled, often 

 mucronate and hispid upper ones lai'ger, fertile glumes shorter blunt 

 lowest male, U])permost em])ty, mitUlle one nut bearing. Bristles 

 0. Stamens 3, filaments very long persistent holding the right nut. 

 Style trifid, slender style base continuous, forming a small bhack cone 

 on the top of the nut. Nut oblong narrowed a little at both ends 

 ti'igonous or rounded, whitish yellow then red and sometimes finally 

 black. 



Species 27. Chiefly Australian, as far east as the Sandwich 

 Islands, and west to Sumatra. 



Panicle dense erect . . . . . . . . 1.0. tristis. 



Panicle lax nodding .. .. .... 2. G. javanica. 



1. G. THisTis, Nees. Linnaea. IX. (1832), 301. A large plant 

 forming great leafy tussocks. Leaves narrow linear acuminate 2^-3 

 feet h)ng, scabrid. I'cduncle stout and stiff 2-3 feet tall. Panicle 

 spiciform IS incbes long, of numy to 17 or 18 dense black spikes of 

 clusters 1-2 inches long. Bracts with a broad base as long linear acu- 

 minate very narrow limb. Spikelets in clusters of 3 or 4, ^ inch 

 long. Lowest glume sliort and broad, next 3 lanceolate acuminate 

 much longer keeled, the keel running to the acute tip and making it 

 triquetrous scabrid hispid. Upper 4 oblong obtuse glabrous much 



