Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 129 



3000 to 5000 feet rarely lower. It resembles somewhat /. australis 

 but is miich stiffer, more glaucous, with stouter stems and more rigid 

 leaves, 



4. I. SYLVESTRis, Eidl. Joum. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. XLIV. p. 

 206. Stem ascending geniculate rather stout 9 inches tall. Leaves 

 lanceolate acuminate with a broad base 3 inches long ^ inch wide, 

 margins thickened glabrous above pubescent beneath sheaths hairy. 

 Panicle 6 inches long much branched 3 inches across branches slender 

 subwhorled. Spikelets solitary y\j inch long subglobose. Glume I 

 ovate cylindric ribbed. Glume III elliptic obtuse shorter coriaceous 

 paleate male. Glume IV similar but pubescent female. Grain free 

 brown. 



Bindings at Telok Sera (Eidley 7265). 



5. I. AUSTRALis, R. Br. Prod. 196. Stems tufted slender 8 

 inches to 4 feet tall. Leaves thin lanceolate 1:^-3 inches long ^ ijich 

 wide edges at base, ciliate, sheaths ciliate along one side nearly as 

 long as the blade. Panicle lax pyramidal with slender spreading 

 branches, 3 to inches long. Spikelets distant, pear-shaped or glo- 

 bose, glabrous or slender pedicels, green blunt. Glumes I and II 

 thin elliptic obscurely nerved. III longer ovate flat, IV much smaller 

 subcoriaceous. Stigmas violet. Kunth. Enum. I. 136. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. III. 461. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 34. Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. I.e. 128. /. atrovirens. Trim. Gram. Pan. 251. /. lepidota, 

 Steud. Flora XXIX. 19. Panicum atrovirens. Trim. Spreng. Neue. 

 Entdeck. 11. 88. Syst. Veg. I. 318. P. australis, Easp. Ann. So. 

 Nat. V. 299. P. nodiharhatiim, Steud. Syn. Gram. 95. 



Singapore: Tanglin, Changi (Eidley 75); Johor: Bukit Mur- 

 dom (Kelsall 4113); Pahang: Pekan (Eidley); Malacca: Ayer 

 Panas; Perak: Kuala Ivangsar (Eidley), (Wray). Distrib. India, 

 Malay Isles, Australia and New Zealand. Very common in open 

 grassy swamps. A good fodder grass. Wray gives the name '' Eum- 

 put Minyak " for this. 



6. I. MiLiACEA, Both. Nov. PI. 58. Stems very slender creeping 

 thin ascending 6-14 inches. Leaves ovate lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 acute 1-1^ inch long hairy. Panicle l|-2 inches long, branches very 

 slender, spreading eventually. Spikelets very small glabrous -3^ inch. 

 Glumes I and II thin elliptic blunt, obscurely nerved III and IV 

 nearlv as long. Kunth. Enum. PI. I. J.36. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 

 459. Hook. m. I.e. 25. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. I.e. 128. /. meneritana, 

 Poir. Encyc. Supp. III. 185. 7. mimdida, Kunth. Eev. Gram. II. 

 t. 117. Enum. I. 137. /. adstans, Miq. I.e. 461. 7. geniculata and 

 stigmatosa. Griff. Notul. III. 41, 42. Ic. PI. As. t. 139. fig. 206, 

 148. f. 2. Panicum aequaium, P. adstans, P. Benjamini, P. gona- 

 iodes, Steud. I.e. 98, 94, 96, 95. 



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