154 Materials for a Flora of ihe Malayan Peninsula. 



Stamons purple i'cmI 3. Stigmas pnrplo. TTook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind, 

 YIT. p. 



Pahang River Banks: Pekan and Mahang (Pidley 1159, 1306). 

 Endoniie. Abundant in this district covoring considoralily tracts of 

 tlic low open country along the river. 



23. PoGOXATHERUM, Bcauv. 



Tufted annual or perennial grasses, with linear acute leaves, 

 and slender simple or branched stems. Spikes solitary terminal 

 slender. Spikelets small in pairs, 1 sessile and 1 shortly pedicelled. 

 Glumes thin membranous, 1 mutiocus, II longer awned apex 2 

 toothed, HI liyaline empty, oi' male with 2 stamens, IV liyaline bifid 

 with a long awn. Palca about as long. Lodicules absent. Stamens 

 1 or 2. Styles capillary. Grain obovate oblong. 



Species 2 or 3, possibly all one species. Tropical Asia, China and 

 Japan. 



P. SACCHAROIDRUM, Bcauv. Agrost. 56. t. 11. f. T. var. nionandni, 

 Hack. Monog. Androp. 193. Stems simple from a short base tufted 

 or elongate branched slender 6-18 inches tall leafy. Leaves 4 to 2 

 inches long ^V ii^<^'h ^vide ciliate at tlio base. Spikes i-1 inch long 

 very slender spikelets iV-xV ^nch long, hairs from the base longer, 

 (ilume I hyaline oblong truncate ti|) ciliate, 11 longer keeled and 

 shortly terminally awned, IV narrow hyaline with a very long brown 

 scabrid awn. Stamen 1 rarely 2. P. crinitum, Trim. Fund. Agrost. 

 166. Kunth. Enum. I. 478. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. Vll 141. 

 P. pohjstncliyum, Kunth. Revis. Gram. 493 (part) t. 161. Iloniopliils 

 crinita, 'J'rim. Fund. Agrost. 166. 



Johor: Kuala Kahang (Kelsall H. B. S. 4104); Fahang near 

 Pekan and Tahan River (Ridley 1327); Selangor: Dinting Bidai 

 (liidley) ; Malacca : Aver Panas ( iCrOodcnough 198'^ ) ; Penang: Penara 

 Bukit,' Waterfall (Curtis 877); Perak (Wray 344:). On banks 

 especially along streams local but often abundant. I follow Hackel 

 in considering this form to be a variety only of P. saecharoideum of 

 i^enuv. 



23. EiMO.iociiLOA, Buse. 



Perennial gi-asses. Leaves mostly basal sul)e(|uilant uai'row 

 linear. Spikes one on a stem. Sj)ikelets 2 llowered seeond, on 

 clabate iiiternodes of a cnrved flattened rachis iml)ricating small, 

 with a j)edicelled or sessile abortive sj)ikelet above, awnless. (Jlume 

 1 orl)i(idar ovate or lanceolate, fiat edges incurved j)ectinate with 

 scahrid processt^s, II oltlong lanceohite aiuminate thinner 3 nerved, 

 lit oblong, palea similar thin, male, 1\' smaller oblong obtuse, palea 



