Materials for a Flora .of the Malayan Peninsula. 161 



linear acuminate with long points 12 inches long | inch wide, striate, 

 beneath glaucous sparsely hairy or glabrous. Spikes solitary narrow 

 2 inches long, green erect, intcrnodes and pedicels -} as long as the 

 spikelets compressed sides ciliate. Sessile spikelets J inch long, 

 callus short bearded. Glume I thin green lanceolate, tip 2 toothed, 

 teeth ciliate, edges inflexed, nerves 5 green. Glume 11 lanceolate 

 concave awnless glabrous as long as Gl. I. Gl. Ill lanceolate 

 acuminate hyaline paleate, IV oblong apex bifid with a slender awn 1 

 inch long, glabrous. 



Selangor: Top of the rocks at the Kuala Lumpur Caves (Ridley 

 8129). Eare. This also appeared in the Economic Gardens as a 

 weed. Distrib. Borneo. v^ 



26. EoTTBOELLiA, Linn. f. 



Perennial grasses, with tall leafy stems. Leaves narrow. Spikes 

 solitary, or racemose rachis jointed and fragile, or not, joints terete 

 or compressed. Spikelets in pairs dissimilar usually awnless. Sessile 

 spikelet sunk in a groove in the joint 1-2 flowered bisexual. Glumes 

 4. I ovate oblong coriaceous flat or convex, margins narrowly in- 

 curved. II thinner acute. Ill hyaline, brown. IV hyaline bisex- 

 ual. Stamens 3. Styles distinct, stigmas short. Pcdicelled spikelet 

 smaller. Glume I less coriaceous, and spikelet often abortive. 



Species 30. Tropics of both hemispheres. 

 Spikes fragile panicled awnless. 



Glume I armed with tubercles along the 



edge . . . . . . . . . . 1. ^. glandulosa. 



Glume I smooth unarmed . . . . 2. R. striata. 



Spikelets not fragile solitary. 



Glumes I and II awned . . . . 3. E. protensa. 



1. E. GLANDULOSA, Trim. Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 6, 11 (1833), 

 250. A large stout grass 3 to 6 feet tall. Stems branched, nodes 

 bearded. Leaves broadly linear acuminate f-1 inch wide glabrous 

 edges scabrid, mouth bearded or glabrous. Spikes 3-4 inches long 

 slender fragile on long slender sheathed peduncles, 6 inches or more 

 long, joints nearly as long as tlie spikelets narrowed at the base ribbed 

 pubescent, Spikelets I inch long yellowish. Sessile spikelet. Glume 

 I ovate lanceolate winged on each side at the top pubescent edges 

 incurved with short tubercles on each side at the base. (Jlumc II 

 boat-shaped acute keeled smooth. Glume III ovate hyaline. Glume 

 IV thin hyaline. Pcdicelled spikelet reduced to a single lanceolate 

 glume, strongly ribbed. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 302. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. III. 408. Hook. fll. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 157. Coelorachis muri- 

 cata, Brngn. Voy. Bot. I. 65. t. 14. Ophiurus muricaiuJus, Steud. 

 Zo. 77. Verz. 57. Syn. Gram. 360. 



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