112 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



t. 25. Bocck. Linnaca. XXXYIII. 434. D. tridentaliiin, Brugn. 

 DujDerr. A^oy. t. 2G. D. zcijlanicum, Xees. Wight. Contrib. p. Hi). 



Singapore: whole island, Bukit Mandi (Ridley 380G) ; Johor: 

 Sungei Tebrau (l\idley 11499); Malacca: Mcrliman; Pulau Besar; 

 Pahang: Pekan (Eidley). Distrib. India, China, Malay islands, 

 Queensland. Common in waste ground and sandy paths. In open 

 places it forms a short compact tui't, in long grass, it becomes taller 

 and weaker, with more distant spikelets. 



10. S. BANCAXA, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 602. A tall rough 

 stout plant, nearly glabrous. Leaves -2 feet long \-^ inch wide 3 

 nerved scabrid sheaths triquetrous stout not winged or occasionally 

 narrowly so. Partial panicles dense crowded at the top sometimes 

 1 or 2 below light green. Branches crowded. Secondary bracts long 

 setaceous conspicuously exsert. Spikelets unisexual green. Xut ovoid 

 globose reticulate ^^ inch long minutely pubescent. Disc yellowish 

 undulate recurved. Clarke PL Brit. Ind. VI. G93. S. macrophyUa, 

 Presl. Pel. Hoenk. I. 200. X^ees. Wight. Contrib. 110. S. malac- 

 censis, Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVIII. 507. 



Singapore (Wallich 3409), (Hullett 3241), Tanglin (Ridley 

 100); Johor: Kuala Sembrong (Kelsall) ; Pahang: Pekan (Ridley 

 1556); Selangor: Kuala Lumpur (Ridley); Malacca (Griffith), 

 Sungei Hudang (Ridley). Distrib. Tenasserim, Malaya, Cochin- 

 china, Oceania. Common in open country. " Rumput Sendanian 

 Bukit." 



11. S. MULTiFOLiATA, Bocck. Liunaca. XXXVIII. 510. Stems 

 usually tolerably robust and glabrous about 3 feet tall. Leaves in 

 the upper part of the stem falsely whorled (i.e. 2 to 5 or 6 close to- 

 getlier with short sheaths, and a space of 2 inches between these and 

 the next) linear scabrid 16-12 inches long ]- inch wide. Partial 

 panicles lax red pyramidal. Spikelets rather distant slender, narrow- 

 ed at base. Xut -^^ inch long reticulate raised edges of the reticu- 

 lations hairy, wiiite or reddish, disc ^ to i of the height of tbe nut 

 distinctly 3'lobed. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. Vl. 093. 



Singapore (Walker 242), Garden Jungle, Bukit Timah (Ridley 

 0113); Jolior: Gunong Pulai, Minyak Buku, Batu Paliat (Ridley), 

 Kuala Sembrong (Kelsall, Ridley 4098) ; Malacca: Pulau Besar 

 (Griflith), Mount Opbir (Ridley); Pahang: Pekan, Tanjong Ilantu, 

 Pahang River (KMdley 2146); Perak : Taiping Waterfall; Penang 

 (Wallich 3410 part). 



var. pUosula, Clarke I.e. more hairy, leaves beneath densely softly 

 liairy. Spikelets greenish white lower bracts suhopposite panicle 

 only slightlv hairv. S. pubi\^-cens, Zoll. Verz. Ind. Arch. II. 61, not 

 of S . 



