Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 151 



lanceolate. Gliime.s 4. I and 11 lancoolato snbequal stiff or her- 

 baceous empty. III and IV thin hyaline paleate triandroiis or 

 empty. Stamens linear. Female ovoid aenminate. Gl. ' I charta- 

 ceons, II-IV thinner, IV paleate. Grain orbicular enclosed in hard 

 globose or ovoid involucre. 



Si^ecies 1. 



C. Lachryima Jobi, L. Sp. PI. 972, Stems 3-4 feet tall. Leaves 

 lanceolate long acuminate base broad, 9 inclies long, 1| inch broad 

 keeled. Panicles 3 inches long. Male portion 1 inch, spikelets I inch. 

 Fruit obovoid § inch long. Bot. Mag, t. 2479. Grit!'. Notul. III. 10. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind, VII, 100, C. agrestis, Lour. Fl. Cochincli. 

 551. C. arundinacea, Lam, Encycl. III. 422. 



Common in waste ground, but not native. Singapore: Tanglin, 

 etc.; Sungei Ujong: Bukit Tumajang (Cantley's Coll.); Penang 

 (Curtis 58); Perak : Tomoh (Machado). Distrib. Tropical Asia 

 and as a cultivated plant in Africa and America. Native name " Jilai 

 Batu," '' Mulai Tikus." 



var, gigantea. Perennial, 10 to 15 feet tall. Leaves 18 inches 

 to 2 feet long, 1^ across. Male spikes long 3 inches in cylindric 

 drooping spikes. Glumes broadly winged half an inch long obtuse. 



C. gigantea, Poxl). FL Ind. III. 569. C. Ungulata, Hack. Oestr, Bot. 

 Zeitsch. 1891. 5. 



Perak: Banks of Kinta River (King's Coll. 7212). 



Andropogoxeae. i 



19. DiMERTA, Br. 



Annual or perennial grasses small. Leaves narrow linear. 

 Spikes solitary or several terminal. Spikelets very small 1 flowered 

 rachis inarticulate. Glumes 4. 1 linear, II as long broader, com- 

 pressed, III narrow shorter hyaline, IV longer awned, awn twisted. 

 Stamens 2, small. Styles distinct. Grain linear. 



Species 12. Tropical Asia and Japan. 



D, ORXITPIOPODA, Trim. Fund. Agrost. liu. t. 14. Annual, 6-30 

 inches tall slender. Leaves linear acuminate 1-3 inches long sprin- 

 kled with long white hairs. Stems capillary pink. Spikes 2 sub- 

 opposite very slender li inch long rachis flexuous pink. Spikelets 

 closely appressed ^V i^t-h long without the awn linear sessile. Glume 

 I linear acute pink keel ciliate. II as long and broader strongly 

 ciliate at the top, HI shorter linear hyaline, IV longer witli a very 

 long scabrid brown awn. Hack. j\Ionogr. Andi'op. 81. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VII. 104. D. stipaeformis, Miq. Prolus. Fl. Jap. 176. 



D. tenera, Trim. Mem. Acad. St, Petersb. ser. 6. Vol. II. p. 335. 



