lU Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Singapore: Tanglin, Piilau Ubin, Changi (Ridley 5811) ; Johor: 

 Kota Tinggi, Gunong Panti (Eidley) ; Selangor: Kuala Lumpur 

 Caves (Kidlcy 8166); Pahang: Pckan (Ridley); Penang: Tanjong 

 Bunga (Curtis 1828), (1795). Distrib. India, Malay Islands, China, 

 Japan, Australia, Polynesia. 



14. S. ELATA, Thwaites Enum. 3o3a (partly). Robust, about 3 

 feet tall \ inch througli or less. I^eaves 12-24 inches long l to I inch 

 wide narrowed at the tip scabrous. Sheath three winged, wings some- 

 times broad, ligule rounded entire hairy. Panicle usually large 

 spreading, partial panicles 3-6 inches long branches divaricate hairy. 

 Bracts conspicuously setaceous. Spikelets numerous scattered uni- 

 sexual. Female glumes glal^rous very shortly mucronate red. Nut 

 tessellated minutelv hairv white or dark red, disc. Boeck. Linnaea. 

 XXXVIII. 487. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. A^I. 690. Trim. Fl. Cevl. 

 V. 97. <y. Uthospcrma, Roxb. Fl. Inf. III. 574 (not Willd.). S. 

 llasskarliana, Boeck. Engl. Jahrb. V. 1884, 511. Diaphora Cochin 

 Chinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 709. 



Perak (King's Coll. 2506), Larut Hills 5000 feet alt. (Ridley)., 



var. decolorans, Clarke I.e. Robust dark red. Xuts earlier dis- 

 coloured finally black purple as are the glumes. 



Penang at 2500 feet alt. (Rink), Government Hill (Ridley 

 9334). The Penang Hill plant (9334) is hardly robust and the 

 panicles are much reduced not pyramidal, and some of tlie nuts 

 apparently ripe are quite white. Distrib. India, Java, New Guinea, 

 China. 



15. S. CHINENSIS, Kunth. Enum. II. 357. Tall rather slender 

 glabrous 2 feet or more. Leaf sheaths not winged triquetrous, ligules 

 with an ovate oblong dark brown process i-^ inch long obtuse fragile 

 biauriculate at the base. Jjcaves linear acuminate 6-15 inches long_ 

 -| or more wide smootb. Panicles pyramidal lax, about 4, lowest one 

 on a long slender peduncle. Bracts setaceous conspicuous. Glumes 

 dark red, Stvle trifid. Nut small tessellate, discoloured. Clarke 

 Fl. Brit. Ind.' VI. 690. Boeck. Linnaea. XXXVIII. 486. Trim. 

 Fl. Ceyh V. 98. S. ciliaris, Nees. Wight. Contrib. 117 (not Mich). 

 S. scrohiculata , Moritzi. Verz. Zoll. pfl. 98. 



Kedah: Gunong Jerai (Ridley 1556). Distrib. Ceylon, China, 

 Malaya, Australia. 



16. S. Bi FLORA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 573. A tufted glabrous 

 plant, a foot tall or less, roots fibrous. Leaves 6 to 8 inches long 

 \-\ inch wide acute. Stems slender not much longer than Die leaves. 

 Panicle narrow, elongate, lower branches remote, ^-1 inch long. 

 Spikelets unisexual dark brown. Glumes acuminate keeled greou. 

 Style trifid. Nut globose hairy tc&scUatcd white ^n in^'l^ long with 



