Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 149 



Singapore: Tanglin, etc. (Eidley) ; Johor: Batii Pahat; Paliang: 

 Pekan (Kidley 1154) ; Malacca: Ayer Panas; Perak: Kuala Dipang. 

 Distrib. All tropics. In water meadows. One of the best fodder 

 grasses, very common. 



Tribe III. Zoysieae. 



15. ZoYSiA, Willd. 



A small tufted or creeping grass with slender stems leafy above 

 branched glabrous usually rigid. Leaves subulate pungent. Panicle 

 spiciform on a wiry peduncle. Spikelets very small one flowered lan- 

 ceolate or ovoid pedicelled on the simple rachis. Glumes 2. Gl. I 

 coriaceous lanceolate, involute. Gl. II shorter and narrower thin, 

 palea small or absent. Styles long distinct. 



Species I. Mauritius, Tropical Asia and Australia. 



Z. PUNGEX8, Willd. Ges. Natur. fr. Neue. Schrifte. III. 441. 

 Stems wiry matter 3-12 inches long. Leaves very slender ^-li- inch 

 long. Panicle ^-1 inch long. Spikelets | inch long. Glume I 

 pale green darker edges, or tinted violet, mucronulate pubescent. 

 Glume II hyaline. Stamens 3, anthers oblong speckled violet. 

 Styles white. Kunth. Enum. PI. I. 471. Beauv. Agrost. I. t. 4. f. 

 1.' Hook. m. Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 99. Z. artistata, Bvownii, Griffith- 

 iana, sedoides, C. Muell. Bot. Zeit. XIII. 2T2-274. Z. japonica, 

 Weuld. Steud. Syn. Gram. 414. Z. sinica, Hance. Journ. Bot. VIL 

 168. Z. tennifolia, Trim. Mem. Acad. Ptersb. Ser. YL, IV., Sc. Xat. 

 II. 96. Matrella juncca, Pers. Syn. I. T8. Agrostis MaireUa, L. 

 Mant. II. 185. 



Singapore: Balestier Plain, Tanjong Elm (Eidley 5T65) ; Johor: 

 Hulu Sedili (Kelsall) ; Malacca: Tanjong Kling (Ridley 3125, 

 3124), Malacca Hill (5T65) ; Pahang: Kuala Pahang (Eidley). 

 Sandy spots often forming a dense turf, somewhat variable according 

 to locality, taller and softer in wet places, very common. 



16. Perotis, Ait. 



A short creeping grass, with small broad leaves. Spikelets in 

 a single terminal spike shortly pedicelled or subsessile short one 

 flowered. Glumes 3. I and II empty narrowly linear tapering 

 into long awns. Ill minute paleate. 



Species 1. Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia. 



P. LATiFOLiA, Ait. Hort. Kew I. 85. Stems 3 inches to 1 foot 

 long. Leaves lanceolate \-% inch long |- J inch long numerous at the 

 base distant above base broad, ciliate, apex acute. Spike 3-5 inches 

 long. Spikelets pnrple nearly ^ inch long with the awns. Beauv. 



