158 Materials for a Flora of ihe Malayan Peninsula. 



ill pairs one sessile and one shortly pedicelled, with short hairs at 

 the base. Glume I oblong hard coriaceous below transversely wrin- 

 kled, tip membranous rounded, Glume II thinner lanceolate acute 

 boat-shaped, III thin lanceohite acuminate paleate, IV shorter bilid 

 with a long awn \ inch in length twisted. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 

 20G. Hook. til. Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 337. /. Royhanum, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. HI. 498. 7. coUadoa, E. Br. Frodr. 1, 205. Sprcng. 

 .8yst, I. 398. /. segetum, Trin. Mem. Acad. Fetersb. Ser. G. 

 Vol. II. 294. Mesoschium Griffith ii, Xees. and Arn. Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. I. (1838) 284. M. Arnoitiaiium, rugusum, Vi'iglitianum, Xees. 

 Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. XIX. Suppl. I. 199. CoUadoa distacluja, Cao. 

 Ic. 37. t. 460. 



Singapore: Galang (Ridley 9134); Sungei Ujong (Cantley's 

 Coll.); Malacca: Ayer Moleh (IJidley), Ayer Keroh (10<:);). Dis- 

 Irib. India, China and Malaya. Native name " llumjmt Ekor 

 Chawi." Scarce. 



2. F. MAGNUM, Fiendle. Journ. But. XXXII. (1894) j). 102. 

 I'erennial large grasses, 5 to G i'eet tall stems stout, branched nodes 

 glabrous. Leaves 8 to 9 inches long, \ inch wide, acuminate glabrous 

 base broad rounded, ligulc bitid ciliate. Spikes 2 (occasionally 3) 

 thick 4 to 7 inches long appressed yellow. Spikelets in pairs one 

 sessile, one shortly pedicelled, | inch long, pedicel with a tul't of white 

 hairs. Glume I oblong cartilaginous apex thin membranous ciliate, 

 wrinkled across tbe base less distinct than in /. rugosuni and some- 

 times absent. Glume II coriaceous as long keeled edges incurved, UI 

 lanceolate acundnate paleate, palea as long, W rather shorter ovate 

 lanceolate, awned or not, palea narrowlv lanceolate. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VII. 128. 



Sini,^ap()re: Blakan Mati (Murton, Ffilding, IJidley 3^S1), 

 Serangoon Koad (Kidley 1098), Balestier Plain (G2:)0) ; .Juhor: 

 'lebing Tinggi (Kidley 11012). Distrib. Islands south of Singapore, 

 Jjaljuan. 



Abundant in wet s])ols, near rivers, and on the sea coast, lonning 

 considerably masses. Though l\endle describes tbe plant as awnless, 

 the s])ecimens even rr())n iilakan Mati, the ty])e-locality are awned. 

 The wi'inkling of Glume I is very variable sometimes well marked 

 transverse wrinkles or mere nodules or again indistinguishable. 



3. I. LAKVK, Fidl. Jouru. IJoy. As. Soc. Str. Br. ^'ol. XLIV. p. 

 20). Stem tall resembling that of /. maguuiit, stout, nodes glabrous. 

 Leaves lanceolate acuminate from a broad base 3 inches .| imh wide, 

 edge scabrid, at ai)e.\, glabrous ligide short bilobed. mouth of sheath 

 ciliate. Sj)ikes 2 appressed ! indies long. Spikeleis in ])airs one 

 sessile one shortly pedicelled ] inch long joints and angles of pedicel 



