126 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



minate |-1 inch long. Spikes 2 to 3, slender 1^-3^ inch long, rachis 

 narrowly winged. Spikelets lanceolate acuminate very narrow gla- 

 brous. P. dehile, Vow. Encyc. V. 34. Digiiaria dehilis, Willd. 

 Enum. Hort. Berol. I. 91. 



Singapore: Telok Kuraii, Gardens (Eidley 11368); Malacca: 

 Ayer Moleh (Eidley). A weed in sandy ground or poor soil. 



6. P. LOXGiFLORUM, Ectz. Obs. IV. 15 (not Trim.). Stems 

 tufted often branched and rooting, 6 to 24 inches, tall slender, leaves 

 linear or lanceolate acute I to nearly \ inch across .|-3 inches long 

 glabrous or hairy, ligulc sbort membranous. Spikes 1-5 or 6 very 

 slender 2- inches long rachis narrow not winged. Spikelets very 

 small ellipsoid green or purple in pairs, 1 nearly sessile the other 

 pedicelled. Glume I and II elliptic thin 3 nerved pale. Glume III 

 dark brown or pale. Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 18. P. hrevifolium, Flugge. 

 Gram. Mono. 150. P. chinensc, Nees. Hook, and Am. Bot. Beech. 

 Voy. 231. Panicum parvulum, Trim. Pan. Gen. 117. 



Singapore: Tanglin, Gardens (Eidley 1133T), Bajau (Ridley 

 457), Jurong (456); Pahang: Sungei Meang (Eidley 1423); Se- 

 langor: Kuala Lumpur (Eidley 5T85) ; Johor: Tanah Eunto; Penang 

 Waterfall Gardens (Curtis 1919). Distrib. Tropical regions of the 

 old world. A common weed. The common form here is almost 

 completely glabrous, even the spikelets being quite glabrous. The 

 Jurong plant No. 456 has however very hairy leaves. 



7. P. HETERAX'THUM, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 16. Stout 

 creeping plant, ascending stem 12 inches tall leafy. Leaves linear 

 lanceolate acuminate 1-2 inches long -^ wide. Peduncle stout. 

 Spikes 2 to 3 stout 8-12 inches long, rachis tiuck hardly winged. 

 Spikelets very distant large covered with long hooked white hairy, 

 long pedicelled, lower spikelets glabrous, \ inch long, lanceolate. 

 Basal glume ovate truncate short. Glume I lanceolate strongly 

 ribbed acuminate, II as long both bearded. No. Ill shorter. 

 Panicum barhatum, Kunth. Eev. Gram. I. 33. Enum. PI. I. 84. 

 Stcud. Syir, Gram. 43. P, clylrohlepharum, Steud. Zoll. Syst. Yerz. 

 54. P. cininens, Steud. I.e. 13. P. heteranthum, Nees. and Meycn. 

 Nov. Act. Cur. XIX. Suppl. 1, 174. Digiiaria harbata, Willd. Enum. 

 Hort. Berol. 91. D. clytrohlcpltara, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 439. 



Pahang: Sungei Meang (Eidley 1413), Eunipin Eiver (6); 

 Jobor: Jambu Larang (Feilding). Distrib. Java and China. Sand 

 hills by the sea on the East Coast rare. 



2. EiaociiLOA, H. B. & K. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Spikelets lanceolate witli a dis- 

 tinct tbickcncd base sccuud on tbc branches of a raceme or panicle, 

 articulate on the thickened top of the pedicel. Glumes 1 and II 



