Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 145 



fringed with long reddish bristles, II narrower thinner and shorter 

 with a bitid short palea, o stamens. GL 1\' siibeoriaceous elliptic 

 awned. Panicuin cunicinuin, Ketz. Obs. III. 9. Koxb. Fl. Ind. I. 

 295. Urochloa ciniicina, Nees. in Edinb. X. Phil. Journ. X\'. 381. 



Singapore: 'J'ivoli, Changi (Kidiey 1*00, 1]11) ; Penang: Water- 

 fall, Tanjong Bunga (Curtis 1829). Distrib. India, Malaya, China. 

 A weed in waste ground. I'leasantlv seented like antlio.canUuun when 

 dry. 



9. OrLis:\iJ;NUS, Beauv. 



Slender creeping grasses, with thin ovate or lanceolate leaves. 

 Spikes simple or panicled spikelets 1 flowered sessile or nearly so, 

 fascicled. Glumes 4. Glume I short with a long straiglit awn, II 

 with or without an awn. III longer, awn short paleate, barren, IV 

 lanceolate acute. Stamens 3. 



Species 4 or 'u. All tropical countries. Woodland grasses. 



Leaves ^-Ij inch long . . , . . . ... 1. 0. Banna nni. 



Leaves 2-? inches long . . . . . . 2. 0. com posit us. 



1. 0. BuRMAXNi, Beauv. Agrost. 54. Creeping decumbent 

 grasses, with slender stems erect about 8 inches. Leaves ovate lanceo- 

 late or lanceolate ^-1^ inch long -] inch wide acute hairy. Spikelets 

 few 4 or 5, secund short ^-^ inch long hairv. Spikelets crowded 

 imbricate ^-Q—g inch long (without the glumes). Glume I lanceolate 

 hairy awned. GI. II about as long, awn much longer, hairy. Gl. 

 Ill a little longer, awn shorter. Glume IV smooth lanceolate acute. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. (jG. 



Penang: Sepoy Lines (Curtis 1825), Botanic Gardens. Distrib. 

 Tropics of the old world. 



2. 0. COMPOSITUS, Beauv, xA.grost. 54. Slender creeping ascend- 

 ing grass 1-2 feet tall. Leaves lanceolate acute base broad inaequi- 

 lateral 3-5 inches long }-l inch wide glabrous above pubescent beneath 

 sheaths glal)rous. Spikes 5 or 6, 1-4 inches long bristly. Spikelets 

 'I inch long (without the awn) solitary or fascicled in twos and threes 

 mostly secund. Glume I lanceolate awned. Gl. II longei- or shorter, 

 awn very long. III longer and broader ol)tuse T-9 nerved hispid, IV 

 lanceolate polished acuminate. Hook, fil, Fl, Brit. Ind. Vo). VII. 6G. 



Jolior: Pulau Tinggi (Feilding) ; Pahang: Kuala Paliang (Pid- 

 ley 999); Selangor: Kuala Caves (IJidley 81G2) ; Malacca: Durian 

 Tungul; Penang: Waterfall (Pidley :(J69, TUU)). Distrib. Tropical 

 liegions. 



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