170 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Pahang: Pekan (Haviland). Pare. Distribution of species. 

 India, China, Malaya and Australia. Tliis fine grass is common in 

 open spots, banks of rivers, etc. It is called " Timpayong " in 

 I'ahang. 



POACEAE. 



33. Sphaerocaryum, Nees. 



A dwarf creeper and ascending plant. Stems slender leafy. 

 Leaves ovate cordate amplexicaul. Spikelets in a pyramidal panicle, 

 minute rachilla jointed at the base not prolonged beyond glume III. 

 Glumes 3, ))oat-shaped, I and II glabrous, II longest, Ilf hirsute. 

 Palea as long oblong blunt. fStamens 3. Anthers linear, grain ovoid. 



Species 1. 



S. ELEGAXS, Xees. Steud. Xom. (Ed. II.) ii. 360. Stems 3-6 

 inches long glabrous. Leaves {-^ inch long glabrous (ribbed when 

 dry) or with a few hairs along the edge and mouth of sheath. Panicle 

 I to 1 inch long, In-anches numerous capillary. Spikelets pale, oblong. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 246. Graya elegans, Xees. Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 119. Isacline pulchella, Poth. Xov. Sp. 58. Kunth. Enura. 

 Y. 136. Panicum elegans, Wight. Arn. Steud. Xom. (Ed. II.) 

 ii. 2o(j. P. malaccense. Trim. Gram. Pan. 204. P pulcheUum, 

 Spreng. Syst. I. 322. 



Singapore: Ang Mo Kio (Pidley 162, 110), Kranji (459); 

 .Tohor: Kota Tinggi (Ridley) ; Malacca: Bukit Bruang (Derry 3537), 

 Aver Panas, Bukit Serdom (Derry 1067) : Dindings: Lumut (Ridley 

 Distrib. India and China. Abundant in wet muddy grassy spots. 



34. SroHOBOLUs, Br. 



Perennial rarely annual grasses, with narrow leaves. Spikelets 

 very small, or minute one rarely two flowered, in spreading or compact 

 panicles. Glumes 3, I and II unequal, III longer or shorter than I 

 or IT, one nerved palea nearly as long, 2 nerved. Lodiculcs minute 

 or 0. Stamens 2-3. Anthers short. Grain loose within the glumes 

 and palea pericarp or its epidermis loose deciduous. 



Species about 80, chiefly tropical. 



Glumes T and II much shorter than Gl. III. 



Stem slender wiry, panicle narrowly pyramidal 1. S. diander. 

 Stem stout, panicle bandies closely appressed, 

 spikelets larger . . . . . . . . 2. S. indicus. 



(iliiiiic 1 1 longer than 1 II. 



Dwarf annual .. .. .. .. . . o. S. pilifcrus. 



1. S. DIANDER, Beauv. Agrost. 25. Leaves tufted at the base 

 often forming tussocks and scattered on the culms very narrow, G 



