Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 159 



shortly white ciliate. Ghime I narrowly elliptic oblong, siibnmcro- 

 natc !?niootli, edge ciliate, II lanceolate shorter edge ciliate, III thin 

 lanceolate ciliate, paleate, IV shorter lanceolate, with a short straight 

 pale awn. 



Singapore: Galang (Ridley 914:3). Endemic. 



4. I. MUTicuM, Linn. Sp. PI. 1049. A long creeping or subercct 

 scandent grass often many feet long, branched and fairly stout glab- 

 rous. Leaves lanceolate acuminate or acute with a broad base 1^-4 

 inches long ^-^ inch Avide, sheatbs ciliate on the edge. Spikes 2 erect 

 thick appressed so as to appear one, ^ to 2 inches long glabrous. Spike- 

 lets in pairs closely appressed to the rachis, one nearly sessile and 

 one pedicelled nearly I inch long lanceolate glabrous. Glume I 

 lanceolate stiffly cartilaginous acute white with raised green veins, 

 edge with a thin hyaline serrulate wing, tip 2 toothed, II cartilaginous 

 lanceolate acute tip keeled minutely serrulate, III ovate lanceolate 

 thin reddish, IV nearly as long as II thin convolute with a short 

 awn. Stigmas white. Hack. Monog. Androp. 212. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VIl. I. repens, lloxh. Fl. Ind. 1, 323. I. glahratuin, 

 Presl. Eel. Haenk. 1, 328. Andropogon, imiticus, repens, poly- 

 Diorphus and relictus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 374, 375, 377. Very 

 common over the whole peninsula. 



Singapore (Kurz), (Wallich 8865 E), Tanglin, etc. (Ilidley) ; 

 Johor: Tanah Merah (Pidley) ; Pahang: Pekan ; Malacca: Ayer 

 Panas (Derry 20), (Griffith) ;"Perak: Changkat Jerim (Wray 1887) ; 

 Dindings; Selangor; Penang. Distrib. India, Malaya, Australia. 

 Native name " Ilumput Temljaga Jantan," " Pumput Terutus Tem- 

 baga." Leaves used in case of beadache l)y Malays. A very common 

 and conspicuous grass from its white sjjikes. Hackel gives two 

 subvarieties, repens the seasbore and dry baiik creeping form, and 

 crectaiu the tall form met with in bushes, and mangrove swamps. 



5. I. Feiluingianum, Rendle. Journ. Bot. XXII. (1894), 101. 

 Stems creeping, ascending 1 to 6 feet, branched or simple, rather 

 stout. Leaves lanceolate with a broad base cordate 3 inches long |-^ 

 inch wide, glabrous above or pubescent on both sides, ligule short 

 truncate, sheath glabrous or hairy. Spikes 2, appressed silkily hairy, 

 2-3 inches long, rachis and pedicels silky hairy. Spikelets in pairs 

 one sessile, one pedicel pale ^ inch long. Glume I oblong, sides 

 involute tip rounded ciliate cartilaginous. Glume II lanceolate acu- 

 minate thinly cartilaginous. Glume III shorter thin lanceolate, palea 

 as long. Glume IV sbortei- bifid, with a long twisted awn dark at 

 at base. Hook. fil. I.e. p. 132. 



Johor: Sungei Tebrau, C^asllewood (liidley 9110), Kota Tinggi, 

 Panchur, Johor Piver (Pidley 10915); Malacca: Gunong Ledang 

 (Mount Ophir) covering the Padang Batu (Feildiug, liidley 4114, 



