Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 115 



a short black beak (style base). Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. GS^. 

 S. SteudeUana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 344. Boeck. Linn. XXVIII, 

 475. *S'. tesscllata, Benth. Fl. Hongkong 399. Kunth. Enum. II. 

 343 (part). 



Singapore: Tanglin, Blakan Mati Island (Uidley 5810), Bukit 

 Timah (8452); Pahang: Pulau Tawar (Eidley 2147); Penang 

 (Diedrichson), Waterfall (Curtis 1795). Distrib. India, Ceylon, 

 Malaya, China. Common in grass plots and by road sides. 



17. S. Neesii, Kunth. Enum. II. 358. var. horneesis, Clarke. 

 Stems solitary or tufted a foot tall, hairy especially on the lower 

 sheaths. Leaves few linear obtuse 8 inches long J inch across hairy 

 especially below. Panicles slender with 2 clusters of spikelets remote, 

 the lower one on a long slender peduncle. Spikelets 5 to 12 in a 

 cluster, i inch long unisexual, ferruginous. Glumes acuminate 

 keeled hairy on the edges. Nut very small, ^g inch long globose 

 covered with conical tubercles hairy at the tip. Boeck. Linnaea. 

 XXXVIII. 449. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 688. S. strkta, Moon. 

 Cat. Cevl. PI. 621. Hypoponim capitatum, Xeos. Linnaea. IX. 

 305. Edinb. Phil. Journ. X\'II. 267. Wight. Contrib. 118. 



Kedah: Cunong Jei-ai (Ridley 5146) on a grassy spot at 3000 

 feet alt., rare. Distrib. Borneo. The tpye form the species, Ceylon. 



24. Cakex, L. 



Perennial herbs. Stems leafy. Spikelets few or many, remote 

 or clustered, bisexual or unisexual, lower flowers female, upper male. 

 Glumes imbricate spirally. Flowers solitary in the glumes. Sta- 

 mens 2 or 3. Female flowers a compressed or trigonous ovary with a 

 slender 2 or 3-fid style, enclosed in an urceolate sac (the utricle). 

 Nut smaller compressed or 3 angled, enclosed in the utricle. 



Species about 500. Whole world. 



Inflorescence narrow much shorter than the 



leaves. Bracts, and stem leaves very short 1. C. cryptosiachys. 

 Inflorescence shorter than leaves. 



Spikelets few remote white, utricles glab- 

 rous . . . . . . . . . . 2. C. maJaccensis. 



Spikelets oblong 1-4 utricles, pilose . . 3. C. perakensis. 

 Spikelets erect crowded utricles numerous 4. C. Curtisii. 

 Spikes long cylindric utricles ovoid hairy 5. C. arridcns. 

 Inflorescence elongate or pyramidal panicles of 

 short spikelets. 

 Spikelets utricle subglobose . . . . 6. 6'. indica. 



