144 Materials for a Flora of tJie Malayan Peninsula. 



Panicles large nodding . . . . . . • . 1. S. italica. 



Panicle erect spike-like simple . . . . • . 2. S. glatica. 



1. S. ITALICA, Bcauv. Agrost. 51. Stem 2 to 5 feet tall stout. 

 Leaves 18 inches long 1 inch across or less. Panicle 8 inches long 

 very thick nodding cylindric or compound. Bristles 2 or 3 smooth or 

 scabrid long. Spikelcts xV inch long. Glumes membranous. I short 

 ovate, II and III subequal oblong, IV coriaceous smootli hemispheric. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. A^II. 78. Panicum itaUcum, L. Sp. PI. 56. 



The Italian millet only known in cultivation occurs occasionally 

 in waste ground, in Pahang. Pulau Tawar, Pulau Rumput and 

 Sungei Chenei. It is known as Iskoi by the Malays and is very 

 seldom cultivated. 



2. S. GLAUCA, Beauv. Agrosto. 51. A tufted annual, about 1-2 

 feet tall slender. Leaves narrow linear 6 inches long l- inch wide 

 scabrid. Panicle narrowly cylindric |-5 inches long orange, occa- 

 sionally purplish dense. Bristles 6 to 12 to a spikelet variable in 

 length' i-\ inch long orange. Spikelets green -J- inch long ovoid. 

 Glume I and II short ovate about | as long as hemispheric wrinkled 

 blunt. Kunth. Enum. PI. I. 149. Griff. Notul. 44. Ic. PI. As. t. 

 149. f. 1. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 79. S. helvola, R. & S. 

 S. dasyura, Schlecht Linnaea XXVI. 463. Panicum glaucum, L. Sp. 

 PI. 56. P. helvolum, Linn. f. Suppl. 107. 



Singapore: Tanglin (Ridley 5767); Johor: Castlewood, Sungei 

 Tehran (Ridley 11502); Pahang: Kuala Luit, Pekan (Ridley); 

 Malacca: Sungei Bahru (Ridlev 10792), Chenana Putih (Cantley's 

 Coll.) ; Perak (Wray) ; Penang : Paddy fields (Curtis 1959). Distrib. 

 whole world. A very variable plant. Hackel names the long 

 spiked forms S. dasyitrn, Schlecht and the short ones *S. glaiica, but 

 they appear to pass into each other. It occurs as a weed in waste 

 ground and in dry spots. " Rumput Julong-Julong." 



8. AxoN'OPUS, Beauv. 



Perennial grasses slender. Panicle of few slender branches. 

 Spikelets 2 flowered. Glumes 4. Gl. I short ovate acuminate glab- 

 rous, II tbin glabrous, with 3 stamens, and a bifid palea, lY elliptic 

 or ol)long nwned. 



Species 2. Africa, Asia, Australia. 



A. ciMicixrs, Beauv. Agrost. 12. Stems tall slender 1-4 feet tall 

 decumbent and geniculate at the base. Leaves ovate lanceolate dis- 

 tant subacute, amph-xicaul at tbe base 3 inches long '^ inch wide edges 

 ciliate ligule a ring of liairs sheaths 3 inches long cilate. Panicle of 

 few long slender subwhorled branches flowerless. (Jlume I lanceo- 

 late acuminate I- of Gl. III. Gl. II much the largest lanceolate acute 



