140 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Nees. Agrost. Braz. 1G5. P. ElUotiii, Trim. Nces. I.e. 170. P. fistu- 

 losum, Hoclist. Steud. I.e. 71. P. natans, Koen. Trim. Panic. Gen. 

 237. P. paludosum, Koxb. Fl. Ind. I. 307. Griff. Notul. 37. Ic. 

 PI. As. t. 139. f. 137. 



Pahang. In swamps at Pekau (Kidley). Ditstrib. Tropics 

 generally. 



21. P. 8ARMENT0SUM, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 308. Perennial tall half 

 scandent grass with a slender solid stem G to as much as 50 feet long 

 pubescent or glabrous. Leaves usually long 5-12 inches long 1^-li 

 inches wide linear lanceolate with a long point glabrous or pubescent, 

 base narrowed, sbeatlis long smooth or slightly pubescent. Panicle 

 long peduncled large com})ound spreading 8-13 inches branches capil- 

 lary scabrid more or less whorled. Spikelets green pedicelled ^ inch 

 long glabrous elliptic or ovoid blunt. Glume I ovate obtuse | as 

 long as Gl. III. Glume II oblong obtuse thin as long as Gl. Ill, 

 which is paleate, palea narrow. Glume IV shorter oblong obtuse 

 transversely wrinkled. Anthers orange. Stigmas crimson. Kunth. 

 Enum. PI*. I. 126. Hook. fil. I.e. 54. P. micrognostum and P. 

 vaciUans, Steud. I.e. 75. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 45G. P. concinnum, 

 Xees. Hook. Kew. Journ. II. 1850, 97. Steud. I.e. 78. P. in- 

 comptiun, Trim. Diss. II. 200. 



Singapore: Grange Eoad, Sumbawang (Ridley 18), Changi (81) ; 

 Johor: Kota Tinggi (Kidley 4307), Sungei Mati Road (Feilding H. 

 B. S. 4112) ; Pahang: Raub (Machado) ; Malacca (Hullett), Machap 

 (Derry 375) ; Sclangor : Kampong Kcrling (Ridley 10515), Rawang 

 (777G); Perak: Taiping Waterfall (Ridley 3119), Larut (King's 

 Coll. 2575) ; Penang: Moniot's Road (Curtis 1908) ; Province Welles- 

 ley: Ara Kudah (Ridley G993). Distrib. India, China, Malaya. 

 Common in woods. " Rumput Jangut Ali," *' Poko Kulubong." 

 Roots chewed with Ijctel nuts an as aphrodisiac. A very beautiful 

 grass often growing in dense masses. 



22. P. MAXIMUM, Jacq. Ic. PI. Rar. I. t. 13. Coll. I. 76. A 

 large tufted grass 8-10 feet tall stems stout branched, nodes glabrous 

 or bearded. Leaves linear 1-2 feet long -} to 1 inch wide base rounded 

 ciliate apex long acuminate. Panicle 1-2 feet long erect, branches 

 slender liliform lower ones wliorled. Spikelets shortly pedicelled ^ 

 inch long green oglong. (Jlume I very short, 1 length of Gl. III. 

 Gl. II elliptic obtuse, little shorter than III, both smooth and ob- 

 scurely nerved. (Jl. Ill i);d('ale. (Jlume IV elliptic obtuse trans- 

 verselv wrinkled shorter. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VIL 49. P. 

 aJtissuni, Brauss. Klencli. Hort. Monsp. (1805) 43. P. cbuninnn, 

 Trim. Pan. Gen. 180. P. f/otim/fodcs, Jacij. Eclog. Gram. 30. t. 31. 

 P. jnmcntorum, Pers. Syn. I. 83. P. lacvc, Lam. 111. I. 1V3. 



