Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 169 



pilifera, Steiid. Syii. PL Gram. 400, A. Jungliuhniana, N"ees, in 

 Anders. Nov, Act. Upsal. 8er. III. ii. 333. Arlstaria harhata, Jimgli. 

 Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. VII. 296. Thenieda arguens. Hack. Monogr. 

 657. Siipa arguens, L. Sp. PI. Ed. II. 117. 



Singapore: Sepoy Lines (Ridley); Malacca (Griffith); Machap 

 (Derry); Nyalas (Goodenough) ; Muar (Feilding H. B. S. 4103); 

 Negri Sembilan : Serendjan (Ridley 1002); Penang: Government 

 Hill, Telok Bahang (Curtis 1911). Distrib. Andamans, Malay 

 Islands, Australia. 



Abundant in dry open grass spots, completely covering the ground 

 for considerable areas in some parts of Penang. Native names " Me- 

 sai Adam," '" Rumput Sarang Pipit," "• Rumput Jangut Adam." 



2. A. GiGANTEA, Cav. Ic. t. 36, A very large grass forming big 

 tussocks. Stems stout 8 to 16 feet tall terete solid glabrous nearly an 

 inch through at the base. Leaves 4 to 8 feet long ^ to 1 inch wide, 

 edges scabrid serrulate. Panicle compound or decompound 3 to 4 

 feet long nodding, spikes on slender fdiform peduncles, enclosed in a 

 red spathe narrow acuminate longer than the peduncle. Spikelets 

 involucral about 6 subwhorled round one, 2 or 3 bisexual spikelets, 

 green glabrous cylindric over ^ an inch long male. Glume I lanceo- 

 late setaceously acuminate thinly coi'iaceous scabrid green, II shorter 

 acuminate, III and IV shorter hyaline narrow ciliate. Bisexual spike- 

 lets cylindric lanceohite jj inch long dark lu'own densely hairy. Callus 

 covered with golden brown hairs. Glume I very hard lanceolate 

 acute dark brown covered with brown hairs, II acute or obtuse. III 

 oblong lanceolate thin, IV as long linear lanceolate thin with a stout 

 straight scabrid awn an inch or more long. Theineda giganiea, Hack. 

 Monogr. 672. A. vulpina, Anders. Nov. Act. Upsal. III. ii. 245. An- 

 droscepia gigantea, Brngn. "S'oy. Coq. Bot. 78. Calaminea gigantea, 

 R. & S. Syst. II. 810 (not of Beauv.), Perohachne secunda, Presl. 

 Rel, Haenk, I. 348. t. 48. var. villosa, Hack. I.e. Branches and 

 branchlets glabrous or scabrid. Involucral spikelets glabrous, scabrid. 

 A. villosa, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. I. 396. Lam. 111. t. 841. f. 3. A. 

 mutica, Steud, Syn, Gram. Androscepia gigantea and mutica, 

 Anderss. I.e. 248. A. gigantea and -iundaica, Buse PI. Jungh. I. 364. 

 Aristaria mutica, Hassk. Tijdschr. Nat. Genes. X. 117. 



Singapore: Balestier Plain (Ridley); Malacca: Pulau Besar 

 (Ridlev 446); Panchor (Goodenough 1256); Penang: Mahang and 

 Pulau ^Tawar (Ridley 13324 and 2822); Selangor Caves: Kuala 

 Lumpur (Ridley 53); Province Wellesley : Bukit Mertajam (Curtis 

 19n); Kedah: Yan (Ridley), Toraoli (Machado). 



var. arundinacea, Hack. Branches and branchlets glal)rous. In- 

 volucral spikelets hairy on the backs with golden or red hairs, bisexual 

 spikelets solitary rarely 2, about ^ an inch long, awn 1^ to 4 inches. 

 A. arundinacea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 251. 



