128 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. I. KuNTHiAXA, Wight, and Arn. Wight. Cat. 1659. Thw. 

 Enura. PI. Zeyl. 362. A dwarf creeping ascending plant with slender 

 stems genicidate and branched 6-10 inches long. Leaves ovate to 

 ovate lanceolate acuminate 1^-^ inch long scabrid or hairy, base 

 cordate mouth of sheath and sheath hairy. Panicle 1-2| inch long, 

 branches short rather stout eventually spreading. Spikclets -g'g to ^ 

 inch long smooth or bristly. Glumes I and II ovate acuminate 

 strongly ribbed and bristly. No. Ill and IV much shorter rounded 

 subequal glabrous or pubescent. Miq. Fl. Ind, Bat. III. 460. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. p. 21. Trim. Flor. Ceyl. V. 127. I. Neesiana, 

 Steud, Syn. Gram. 96. Panicum cuspidiglume, Kunthianum, Metzii 

 and obliquum, Steud. I.e. 95 and 96. 



Singapore: Tanglin (Pidley 73, 6110), Bukit Mandai (Ridley 

 5TT0), Chan Cliu Kang (5769), Jurong (55); Selangor: Petaling, 

 Pawang (liidley 7777). Distrib. India, Ceylon, Java, Borneo. In 

 damp open spots in forests by streams abundant. 



2. I. ALBENS, Trim, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 25, sterns tall branched, 

 1 to 4 feet tall geniculate. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate acu- 

 minate 4 to 8 inches long 1 inch wide glabrous, or sparsely hairy 

 beneath margins thickened, scabrid beneath, ril)s 3 to 5 pairs elevated 

 1)eneath. Panicle large lax spreading 9 inches long and wide, 

 branches capillary. Spikelets solitary globose very small pale. 

 Glumes I and II oblong obtuse glabrous or pubes^'ut, obscurely 

 nerved, III and IV shorter both often bisexual hemispheric cori- 

 aceous. Kunth. Enum. PI. I. 137. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 459. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 22. Panicum alhcni<, P. saxatile, P. 

 ZoJlingeri, Steud. Syn. Gram. 96, 97. 



Perak: Larut Hills, Gunong Hijau at 5000 feet alt. (Wray), 

 (Pidley 3115). Distrib. India, China and Malaya. 



3. I. JAVAXA, Xees. Mi(i. PI. Jungh. 3<6. Fl. Ind, Bat. III. 

 452. Stems tall still brancbed -30 inches tall. Leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate l|-2 inches long -J-| inch wide finely ribbed hairy and 

 scabi'id when dry, base and mouth of sheatli and one side of it ciliate. 

 Panicle pyramidal, with very slender branches 3 Indies long about as 

 wide when fully develoj^ed. Spikelets su])globose on very slender 

 pedicels, pallid ^V ^^^^^ l^^^^M- Glumes I and 11 ovate sul)coriaceous 

 smooth III and IV eciually long, III narrower with incurved edges, 

 male with 2 or 3 stamens, IV i)roader hemispheric with 3 or 4 

 stamens. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 24. Panicum halavicum, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 96. 



Malacca: Mount Ophir at 3000 feet elevation (Maingay). (Lobb, 

 Hullett 867), (IJidlev 3128); Perak: Gunong Bubu (Wray 3820), 

 Gfiiiong Batu Putih (Wray 6700) ; Peuang Waterfall (Curtis 1813). 

 Diet rib. Burmali, Java, Borneo. In damp spots at an altitude of 



