Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 139 



Agrost. Braz. 199. Kuntli. Eimm. PI. I. 100. Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 83. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. lud. I.e. 47. 



Selangor: Port Swettenliam (Bishop Hose). Diatrib. India 

 and Ceylon. 



18. P. ELEGAXTissniUM, Hook. fil. PI. Brit. Ind. VII. 53. 

 Perennial grass 2 or 3 feet tall, stems tufted slender leafy. Leaves 

 numerous from near the base linear hairy acuminate 12-18 inches long. 

 Panicle lax spreading 9 incbes long branches scabrid filiform. Spike- 

 lets acute solitary or in pairs -J inch long glabrous. Glume I ovate 

 acuminate keeled and ribbed, | as long as III, stipitate. Gl. II 

 ovate acuminate strongly ribbed at the tip. Ill as long similar 

 paleate, palea f length of Glume IV, which is elliptic obtuse smooth 

 white, edges incurved. 



Bindings on the top of the hill at Lumut (Kidley 311G). 

 Endemic. 



19. P. REPEXS, L. Sp. PL Ed. II. 87. Stem creeping stout or 

 slender, stoloniferous ascending 6-2-t inches, leases of stems sometimes 

 swollen. Leaves distichous 6-12 inches long linear narrow glaucous, 

 or I inch wide closely ribbed when dry, hispid or glabrous. Panicle 

 narrow strict 3-6 inches long, pale, branches scabrid. Spikelets yV 

 inch sessile or shortly pedicelled ovate lanceolate acute glabrous 

 pale. Glume I very short, I of Gl. Ill orbicular. II and III 

 subequal ovate acute. Ill paleate or not, male. IV elliptic ovate 

 smooth. Kunth. Enum. PI. 1, 100. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 



49. P. airoides, Br. Prodr. 190. P. aquatiiui), A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Ab3'ss. II 373. P. arenarium, Brot. Fl. Lus. I. 82. P. coloratum, 

 Cav. le. II. 6. t. 110. P. ischocmoides, Petz. Obs. IV. 17. 



Singapore: Changi (Eidley 1699) ; Johor: Sungei Tebrau (Rid- 

 ley 11488); Pahang: Pekan; Malacca: Tanjong Kling, Ching (Rid- 

 ley) ; Bindings: Lumut; Penang Waterfall (Curtis 1803) ; Province 

 Wellesley: Permatang Bertam ; Kelantan: Kamposa (Ridley). Dis- 

 trib. All warm countries. Usually a seashore plant with often a 

 stout subterranean rhizome. 



20. P. PROLiFERUM, Lam. Encycl. IV. 747. Stem floating and 

 ascending, base thick and spongy, about 1- feet tall glabrous leafy to 

 the panicle. Leaves linear acuminate base broad 6-7 inches long f 

 inch wide mouth ciliate. Panicle 3 inches long branches appressed, 

 scabrid. Spikelets green lanceolate acute ^ inch long. Glume I 

 ovate obtuse tbin ] as long as the III. Gl. II and III lanceolate 

 acuminate ribbed. Gl. Ill paleate or not. Gl. IV f the length of 

 III, elliptic obtuse smooth. Xees. Agrostolog. Braz. 170. Kunth. 

 Enum. I. 100. Steud. Syn. Gram. 71. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VIL 



50. P. gongylodcs, Jacq. Eclog. Gram. III. t. 21. P. elcpJianiipes, 



