134 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Singapore: Tauglin, Bukit Mandai (Kidley 5783), Cliangi 

 (1755); Pahang: Pckan, Pulaii Tawar; Province Welleslcy: Bukit 

 Jiiru, Telok Ayer Tawar (Kidley 7001). Distrib. India, China, 

 Malaya, Australia. Common in sandy open ground, often a trouble- 

 some weed. 



§ 4. Hymexachxe. 



G. P. ixDicuM, L. Mant. II. 181. Stems slender G-18 inches 

 tall. Leaves lanceolate linear acuminate or linear 3 inches long -J- 

 incli wide base narrow, quite glabrous (hirsute form in India). Pan- 

 icle spiciform on a long peduncle, dense with very short branches, 4-1 

 inch long green glabrous. Spikelets -J inch long falcate. Glume I 

 I'l length of Glume III. Glume II ovoijd or lanceolate cymbiform, 

 5 nerved, obtuse or subacute. III similar, IV very snuill about i as 

 long ovoid acute, thin. Ketz. Obs. III. 9. Kunth. Enum. PI. I. 

 133. Poxb. Fl. Ind. I. 285. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 11. P. 

 angusium, Trim. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 331. P. arcuatum, Br. Prodr. 189. 

 GrifF. Notul. III. 39, 40. Ic. PL As. t. 147. f. I. P. contractum, 

 Wight, and Arn. Steud. Syn. Gram. 84. P. microstaihyum. Lam. III. 

 I. 170. Kunth. I.e. 88. Ilymenacline indka, Buhse. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. III. 458. //. phalaroides, Nees. Agrost. S7(). 



Singapore: Tanglin, etc.; Johor: Tanah Merah Poad (Ridley 

 1(08) ; Pahang: Pekan (Pidley 1570) ; Malacca: Sclandor (Cantley's 

 Coll.) ; Penang Waterfall (Curtis 180Ji). Distrib. Tropical Asia and 

 Australia. "Pumput Bidis," " Pumput Bonto Darat." A common 

 weed everywhere. The only form I have seen here is the var. indie uni 

 proper. 



var. gracUe, Hook. f. Stems tall and slender 18-24 inches. 

 Spike 4 or 5 inches long. 



Singapore: Ang Mo Kio (Ridley) ; Johor: Kuala Kahang (Kel- 

 sall H. B. S. 4109) ; Palumg: Khol,"Tembeling River (Ridley 2818), 

 Sungei Jelei (Machado) ; Dindings: Ijumut (Ridley); Pcrak 

 (Wray). This form has quite the hal)it of P. tnyusuroidcs, but the 

 curved acute glumes of P. indicum true. The Pahang specimens and 

 the ones from Lumut are remarkable for the glumes being very hairy. 



7. P. MY08UR0IDES, Br. Prodr. 189, A tall slender grass about 

 ]2 to 24 inches tall. Leaves narrow linear acuminate 4-8 inches long 

 -J to i inch long glabrous. Panicle 3-0 inches long slender spiciform 

 with closely appressed very sliort branches. Spikelets olmvoid obtuse 

 y\ inch long, (ilume I ovate obtuse \ length of No. III. II and 

 J II nearly equal, 5-'( nerved oblung obtuse. IV ellipsoid smooth 

 shining. "Kunth. Knum. PI. L. 77. Hook. lil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 12. 

 /'. (iiifiimhnii, Wight. Ic. 1G12. /'. iitcnnaliDii, Roxb. Fl. lud. 1. 

 28G. (nun L.), 



