100 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. ' 



of spikes sessile or pedunclcd, peduncle sometimes 2 inches long. 

 Spikes ovoid about 4 in a head. Spikelets curved -J inch long. Nut 

 f length of glume. Beauv. Flor. U'Owar. II. 22. t. T3. Kurz. Journ. 

 As. Soc. XLV. (187G) pt. II. 158. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXV. 435. 

 Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. G77. R. peduiiculnta, Br. Prodr. 236. R. 

 Vi'ightiana, Xees. Wiglit. Contrib. 92. R. distichophyUa, Boeck Flora 

 XLI. 410. Mariscus capilaiui^, Zoll. Verz. Ind. Arch. II. G3. Lipo- 

 carpha foliosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 337. 



Singapore: Tanjong Katong (Eidley) ; Malacca (Griffith, Main- 

 gay) ; Pahang: Sungei Mcang (Ridley 1521), Cherating River; 

 Penang: Batu Feringhi (Curtis 1801); Lankawi Islands (Curtis). 

 Common in sea sand. 



18. Hypolytrum, L. C. Rich. 



Tufted plants with usually a very short rhizome and broad leaves 

 tapering to the apex and 3 nerved. Stems with one or two leaf 

 bearing nodes, above the base. Spikes oblong, eventually subglobose, 

 with fruit radiating in a stellate manner, panicled on the ends of the 

 branches of the corymb, few or many. Bracts long and leafy. Spike- 

 lets small crowded consisting of one broad glume-like bracteole, within 

 which 2 opposite hyaline boat-sliaped glumes squamellae witli 2 sta- 

 mens with long filaments, anthers oblong not crested, and a subglobose 

 ovary with a very shrot style with 2 long white branches. Nut 

 tapering at both ends obovoid biconvex hardly distinctly beaked. 



Species 25. All tropical regions. 



Corymb large. Spikes very numerous. 

 Bracteoles not scarious. 



Young spikes obovoid . . . . . . 1. II. lailfolium. 



Young spikes linear . . . . . . 2. H. penangense. 



Spikes few. Bracteoles scarious . . 3. //. proliferum. 



1. H. LATiFOLiu:\r, Rich, in Pers. Syn. I. 70. A large tufted 

 plant. Leaves numerous linear acuminate 3 nerved, G to inches 

 long ^- to 1 inch wide. Stem rather stout 1 to 3 feet tall, with 1 or 2 

 leaf bearing nodes. Corymb 3 to G inches across, compound dense or 

 rather lax with somewhat scalrous rigid branches. Spikes usually 

 very numerous solitary at first oblong glo))ose stellate in fruit ^ inch 

 across. Bracts vei-y long leallike. Bracteole ovate broad subacute 

 pale brown. S(|uamel]ae boatsbaped acute, keel ciliate. Stamens 2. 

 Ovary l)road ovoid. Style arms long white. Nut obovoid jiaie dott- 

 ed, with red glands eventually black jV inch long, tapering at both 

 ends. Kurz. Journ. Wuy. As. Soc. Beng. XXX VI II. 2, 12 (partlv). 

 Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. Vl. G78. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 89. Bot. Mag", t. 

 G2S2. //. (jicjantcum, Nees. Wight. Contrib. 93 (partly). Boeck, 



