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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



smooth or shining or reticulate or tubcrclcd, sometimes hairy stipitate, 

 with a disc often large fleshy, entire tooth or three lobed. 



Species 150. All warm regions. ^ 



1. S. lithospcrma. 



2. S. conjmhosa. 



3. S. Ridleyi 



4. S. trigonocarpa. 



5. *S'. oryzoidcs. 



S. zeylanica. 

 S. levis. 

 S. Badula. 

 S. caricina. 



1. Hypoporum. Most of the spikelets 

 bisexual. 



Leaves narrow, panicle narrow 



Leaves broad, 3 nerved glabrous. 



Panicle large, cor3'mbs several 



Panicle slender, corymbs few small . . 

 Leaves hairy, nut trigonous hairy 



2. EuscLERiA. Spikelets unisexual. 

 Xut smooth. 



Tall stout plant, panicle large dense . . 

 Slender weak plants. 

 Xut ovoid . . 



Nut globose top flattened 

 Nut very small grooved . . 

 Annual dwarf plant 

 Nut reticulated velvety or pubescent. 

 Panicles dense crowded at top of stem. 



Secondary bracts setaceous very long . . 

 Panicles lax, sheaths not winged. 

 Disc short 3 lobcd 

 Disc long cylindric crenulate red 

 Panicle slender lax, sheaths winged . . 

 Nut tessellate. Stout tall plants. 

 Ligule ovate hairy . . 

 Ligulc scarious brown 

 Nut tessellate small weak plant . . 

 Nut very small tubcrcled ; . 



1. S. LiTiiosPKHMA, Sw. Prodr. IS. Fl. Ind. Occid. 92. Phizome 

 short woody. Stems lS-21 inches tall slender tufted. Leaves narrow 

 linear ^^ inch across 8- inches long. Sheaths pubescent, otherwise 

 glabrous. Panicle narrow witii slender branches 1-3 inches long with 

 distant small spikelets or clusters of spikelets, many bisexual. Glumes 

 dark brown acuminate. Nut j^^ inch long ovoid smooth white. 

 Nees. Wiglit. Contrib. 117. Boeck. Linnaoa. XXXVIIL \r>l. Kurz. 

 Journ. As. Snc. XLV. j)t. II. l,-)!). Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. (iS,-). 

 Trim. Fl. Ccyl. V. U(i. iS, tenuis, Ixctz. Obs. IV. 13. Koxb. Fl. lud. 



10. S. hancana. 



