Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. Ill 



p. 118. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VT. G87. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 97. 8. 

 ceylanica, Kunth. Emim. II. 358. S. Thwaitesiana, Boeck. Linnaea. 

 XXXVIII. 454. S. lateriflora, Boeck. 454. Kurz. Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLV. pt. 2, 159. 



Singapore: Galang, Changi (Ridley); Pahang: Kuala Pahang; 

 Malacca: Ayer Panas (Ridley); Penang: Telok Bahang (Curtis 

 1907). Distrib. Ceylon, Xicobars, Tenasserim, Borneo, Amboyna. 

 The peninsula plant seems to be usually quite glabrous, except the 

 bracts. 



7. S. LEVIS, Retz. Obs. IV. 13. Rhizome short woody roots 

 tough. Stems triquetrous not winged rather slender 2-3 feet tall. 

 Leaves linear acuminate 1 foot tall | inch across. Panicle rather 

 narrow, lower partial panicles small. Upper one subpyramidal brown 

 or dark red. IvTut smooth quite globose white or black almost flattened 

 at the top, disc white fleshy with 3 ovate lobes, toothed at the tip. 

 Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 694. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 100. S. laevis, 

 Willd. Sp. PI. IV. 314. Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 575. Nees. Wight. 

 Contrib. 117. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVIII. 513. Kurz. Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. XLV. part 3, 160. 



Singapore: Changi (Ridley 5809), Tanglin, etc., very common; 

 Johor: Tana Merah Road (Ridley 1719); Pahang: Pulau Tawar 

 (Ridley 3143), Pekan (1477); Malacca: Pulau Besar (Griffith), 

 Alor Gajah (Ridley) ; Penang (Wallich 3410 part). Distrib. India, 

 Ceylon, Siam, Malay Islands, China. Common in grassy spots. 



8. S. Radula, Hance, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4. XVIII. 333. 

 Robust very slightly hairy, very scabrous. Partial panicles several 

 peduncle pyramidal secondary bracts long setaceous conspicuous. 

 Nuts smooth white, lobes of disc small ovate. Clarke I.e. 691. 8. 

 laevis var. 8. caherrima, Benth. PI. Hongkong 400. 8. aspera, 

 Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVIII. 483. 



Perak at 300 feet (King's Coll. 1939). Distrib. Hongkong. 

 (Xot seen). 



9. S. CARiciNA, Benth. Fl. Austral. VII. 436. A small annual, 

 very slender and weak 6 to 15 inches tall glabrous. Leaves linear 

 acute 1-3 inches long J^-^ inch wide, flaccid bright green, usually 3 

 nerved. Spikelets in very small axillary clusters ^ inch long close, 

 or remote, just emerging from the axils of the leaflike bracts, all 

 unisexual. Female spikelets r^^ inch long pale green, with 1 or 3 

 males at the base. Glumes 4 upper ones three lobed, stigmas 3. Nut 

 minute white 3 ribbed, and cancellate between the ribs. Clarke Fl. 

 Brit. Brit. Ind. VI. 688. Goebel. Ann. Jard. Buitenz. VII. 133. t. 

 15. f. 31-39. 8. axillaris, Moon. Cat. PI. Ceyl. p. 63. Diplacrum 

 cariciiium, Br. Prodr. 341. Trim. Fl»Ceyl. V. 101. Endl. Iconogr. 



