MateriaJs for a Flora of ilie Malayan Peninsula. 143 



inch wide. Panicle 2-3 inches long compact branches short ascending 

 scabrid. Spikelets shortly pedicelled ^ inch long green glabrous lan- 

 ceolate. Glume I lanceolate cuspidate ^ as long as CIl. III. Gl. II 

 lanceolate cuspidate strongly nerved. Xerves pubescent as long as 

 Gl. Ill lanceolate acuminate paleate. Gl. IV obtuse elliptic smooth. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 60. Panicum palletis, Swartz. Prod. 

 33. Kunth. Enum. I. 89. 



Johor: Serom, Kota Tinggi; Selangor: Kuala Lumpur Caves 

 (Ridley 8163), Near Labu (7775); Sungei UJong: Bukit Sulu 

 (Cantley's Coll.). Distrib. Tropics of both worlds. On banks of 

 woods rather rare here. 



6, Thysanolaexa, Nees. 



A very large reed-like grass. Stem solid. Leaves broad lanceo- 

 late sheaths short. Panicle very large lax branches long nodding 

 bearing very numerous short spikes. Spikelets densely crowded sub- 

 secund purple, pedicelled. Glumes 4. Gl. I and II short sub- 

 equal ovate. Glume III lanceolate acuminate three times as long. 

 Gl. IV shorter lanceolate thin acute green, covered with long white 

 hairs. Stamens 2 or 3. Anthers short oblong greenish yellow. 

 Styles free brown purple. Grain minute free. 



Species 1. India and Malaya. 



Th. Agrostis, Nees. Edinb. Phil. Journ XVIII. 180. Stems 

 8 to 12 feet tall ^ inch through. Leaves 18-24 inches, 3-4 inches 

 across smooth green paler beneath, acuminate, base cordate subpetioled, 

 sheaths 1-1 :| inch long mouths hairy, ligule very short. Panicle 1-2^ 

 feet tall, branches about a foot or less. Spikes ^-^ inch. Spikelets 

 J^ inch long, pedicels hairy. Glume I, II and III purple. Steud. 

 Syn. Gram. 119. Hook. fil. I.e. 61. Th. acarifera, Arn. and Nees. 

 Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. XIX. Supp. 1, 181. Panicum acarifenim, Trin. 

 Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 87. Myriachaeta arundinacea and glauca, Zoll. and 

 Mor. Syst. Verz. Zoll. 101. Steud. I.e. 404. Melicn laiifoUa, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. I. 328. Agrostis maxima, Eoxb. I.e. 317. 



Perak: Hermitage Hill (Ridley); Sungei Ujong (Herb Cant- 

 ley); Selangor: Pahang Track (Machado) ; Penang: Government 

 Hill (Curtis 1909). Hill woods on banks. " Buluh Tubarow." 



7. Setaria, Beauv. 



Annual grasses, with dense spiciform panicles. Spikelets I flow- 

 ered (rarely 2 flowered) clusters not awned, articulate on very short 

 pedicels, bearing a persistent involucel of few or many scabrid bristles 

 (barren branchlets). Glumes 4. I half as long as III, II as long 

 or shorter than IV, III neuter epaleate, rarely male. IV coriaceous 

 plano-convex bisexual. Stamens 3. Grain free. 



Species about 10. All warm and temperate regions. 



