Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 153 



Pctersl). Sor. YI. ii. 1833, 331. I. ramosa, Andorss. Oofvors. Tet. 

 Akad. Stockh. 1855, 158. 



Singapore (Cuming), Seletar, Bajau (57v5) ; Johor : Batu Pahat, 

 Tanjong Knpang (IMdley 5774) ; Bindings: Lnmnt; Selangor: 

 Langat (Ridley 54). Distrib. Tenasserim, Malay Islands, Trop. 

 America. Common near villages and on the sea coasts. " Lalang 

 Jawa." 



31. Saccharum, L. 



Large perennial grasses, with numerous solid or fistular stems in 

 a tuft, and linear leaves. Panicles large and long peduncles, rachis 

 fragile, spikelets in pairs one sessile and one pedicelled, both similar 

 linear oblong or oblong bisexual. Chimes I and II equal blunt or 

 II mucronate. III emptjr hyaline, lY bisexual. Palea small hyaline 

 nerveless. Stamens 3. 



Species 12. Africa, Trop. Asia and America. 



Panicle lax, white silky, callus, hairs long silky 1. S. arnndinaceum. 

 Panicle dense purple, callus hairs shorter than 



the spikelet . . . . . . . . 2. *S'. Ridloyi. 



1. S. ARUNDiNACEUM, Eetz. Obs. 4. p. 14. Stems 10 to 15 feet 

 tall, one inch through solid. Leaves 3 to 5 feet long, 2-3 inclies wide 

 margins hispidly eiliate, acuminate, midrib white. Panicle 1-2 feet 

 long much branched, oblong, In'anches half whorled softly hairy. 

 Spikelets narrow lanceolate in pairs one sessile and one pedicelled 

 ^ inch long, white silky callus hairs longer. Glume I lanceolate 

 acuminate, II similar as long, both reddish. III elliptic lanceolate, lY 

 mucronate. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 117. Hook. til. I.e. ^S*. henga- 

 Jense, Eetz. Obs. 5. p. 162. ^. procernm, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 243. 



Singapore: Yeo Chu Kang, Kallang (Eidley 10800); Pahang: 

 Pnlau Tawar, Pekan (Eidley 1202) ; Selangor: Kuala Lumpur Caves 

 (Eidley 54); Perak Eiver (King's Coll. 1095). Distrib. India, 

 China. Common on river banks. " Tehran." 



S. officinnrum, L. The sugarcane " Tebu " of the Malays is 

 commonly cultivated. 



2. S. EiDLEYi, Hack. Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1891. A tall grass 

 forming huge clumps. Leaves long linear acuminate ^ inch across 

 glabrous margins scabi-id, sheaths smooth stems 8 feet tall, ^ inch 

 through solid. Panicle 14-16 inches long purple. Spikelets in pairs 

 one sessile and one peduncled ^g inch long lanceolate shining nodes of 

 l)ranches and base of spikelet covered with wliite hairs shorter than the 

 spikelet. Glume I lanceolate acute cartilaginous, II about as long 

 eiliate at the top. III and lY shorter hyaline eiliate at the tip. 



