Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 113 



Peuang: Stoliczka (Kunstler 1544 part), (King 1657). Distrib. 

 Java. 



var. opliirensis, Clarke I.e. Eatlier stouter with broader leaves, 

 glabrous except the inflorescence. Lower peduncles of panicles long 

 slender 4 inches. Male spikelets fuscous red narrow crowded into 

 dense pyramidal heads pubescent, lobes of disc margin shorter. 



Mount Ophir, Padang Batu 3000 feet alt. (Hullett, Ridley 3123, 

 10006). In long grass. Endemic. DLstrib. of species Eangoon and 

 Malay islands. 



Occurs from the level country up to an altitude of 4000 feet. 

 A form like var. ophirensis in the compact pyramidal heads, but with 

 shorter peduncles occurs on St. Barbe Isle and the Cai'imon islands 

 (Dutch Islands South West of Singapore). 



12. S. suMATKExsis, Eetz. Obs. V. 19. t. 2. A tall rather slender 

 plant 3 to 20 feet tall in scrub, weak, glabrous. Leaves linear acu- 

 minate 9-12 inches long | inch Avide 2-4 crowded together with a 

 space of a foot between. Panicle G inches or more long lax light 

 brown. Partial panicles ascending. Glumes mucronate reddish with 

 a green keel and mucro. Xut black when ripe reticulate pubescent 

 nearly globose, half or more concealed by the very large cylindric 

 fleshy red disc margins edges crenulate, base of disc white. Xees. 

 Wight. Contrib. 116. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVIII. 513. Kurz. Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. XLV. part II. 159. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. YI. 575. 

 *S'. setigcra, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 575. S. purpurasccns, Steud. Syn. 

 Cyp. 169. 



Singapore: very common Tanglin, Bukit Timah, etc. (Wallich 

 3407), (Ridley); Malacca (Griffith 2855); Selangor: Bukit Kudah 

 (Ridley) ; Pahang: Pekan (Ridley), Kuala Lipis (Machado) ; Sungei 

 IJjong: Gunong Berembun (Cantley's Coll.), Tampin Hill (Good- 

 enough) ; Perak (Kunstler 2405) ; Penang: Tanjong Bunga (Curtis), 

 (Wallich 3407 part). Distrib. Malay Islands. Xative name " Rum- 

 pjit Kumbor," " Siamet," '' Sendayan." 



13. S. HEBECARPA, Xccs. Linnaea. IX. 303. Wight. Contrib. 

 117. Rhizome slender. Stems slender and weak, 2-3 feet tall. 

 Leaves, sheaths more or less winged, blade 12-14 inches long ^ inch 

 across edges scabrous. Panicles usually thin and lax, terminal ones 

 sometimes pyramidal fairly stout 3 inches long. Bracts usually ex- 

 sert conspicuous and long. Spikelets all unisexual dark red. Glumes 

 keeled and mucronate. Nut J^ inch long ovoid white minutely 

 velvetv, white, obscurely reticulated when young. Boeck Linnaea. 

 XXXVlII. 478. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VL 689. Trim.' Fl. Zcyl. 

 y. 99. <S'. aJaia, Moon. Cat. PI. Ceyl. 62. S. scruhkulata, Zoll. Verz. 

 Aroh. Ind. II. 61'. 6'. siipuhms, Thw. Enum. oo3, 435 (not Xees.). 



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