Materials for a Flora of ilie Malayan Peninsula. 99 



shorter. Nut ^ inch long broadly fusiform bluntly trigonous yellow- 

 ish white with a small black conical tip eventually completely black. 

 Nees. Hook. & Arn. Beechey. Voy. p. 228. Boeck. Linnaea. p. 354. 

 Singapore: Sungei Moral (Eidley 1723), Tanglin, Fort Siloso 

 (91), (Hullett 54); Johor: Panchur (Ridley), Scudai Eiver 

 (1723a) ; Malacca: Mount Ophir (Ridley) ; Selangor: Kuala Lumpur 

 (Ridley 5788) ; Perak: Bindings, Lumut (Ridley) ; Kedah: Gunong 

 Jerai (Ridley). Distrib. Dutch Islands south of Singapore, Borneo 

 and China. Common in dry spots near the sea and on river banks, 

 and at -1000 feet altitude on some hills. 



2. G. JAVANiCA, Moritzi, Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 98. var. penangensis, 

 Clarke I.e. 676. Large tufted plant, with long linear acuminate 

 scabrid leaves, 3 or 4 feet long. Stems erect 8 to 12 feet tall stout. 

 Panicle 18 to 24 inches long, lax nodding black branches very numer- 

 ous 3-4 inches long or less. Bracts long linear from a broader base. 

 Spikelets less than ^ inch long. Lower glumes 3-4 blackish brown 

 lanceolate very shortly mucronate, upper ones f length or more blunt, 

 not keeled. Stamens, with persistent filaments holding the nut when 

 ripe. ISTut oblong bluntly trigonous less than -^ inch long, at tirst 

 yellow, finally red shining. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVIII. 339. Pha- 

 l-eJlanthus multi-flonis, Zoll, Verz, Ind. Arch. II, 61. Syzyganthus 

 muUiflorus, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 153. Sclioenus paniculatus, Hassk. Cat. 

 Hort. Bogor. 296. S. HassTcarli, Steud. I.e. 166. 



Johor: Bukit Murdom (Kelsall), Gunong Pulai, Pengaram Hill, 

 Batu Pahat (Ridley) ; Malacca: Mount Ophir (Ridley 3142), (Grif- 

 fith) ; Selangor: Bukit Hitam abundant (Ridley); Perak: Larut 

 Hills (Curtis 2079), Gunong Batu Putih (Wray 387) ; Penang Hill 

 (King 1750) ; Kedah: Gunong Jerai (Ridley). Distrib. Sumatra to 

 New Caledonia and Fiji. 



The type form (to which the synonymy belongs) differs in the 

 closer panicle and longer lower bracts. The var. penangensis seems 

 to be peculiar to the peninsula. It is common on the hills at an 

 altitude of from 1500 feet to 4000 feet and is called by the Malays 

 " Sereh Bukit." 



17. Rehire A, Aublet. 



Rhizome very long creeping, throwing short stems, leafy to the 

 top. Leaves long rigid. Spikes capitate. Spikelets very densely 

 crowded. Glumes 4, imbricating lowest ribbed, empty, uppermost 

 enclosing a perfect flower. Bristles 0. Stamens 3 unilateral. Style 

 slender trifid not dilated. Nut cylindric brown reticulated. 



Species 1. All tropical seashores. 



R. MARITIMA, Aubl. PI. Guian. I. 45. t. 16. Stems 2 to 4 inches 

 long. Leaves 1-6 inches long crowded ^ inch wide, pungent. Head 



