Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 171 



inches or more long, culms very slender and tuft one to two feet tall 

 panicle 8-13 inches long narrowly pyramidal or dense, branches 

 capillary solitary scattered or fascicled an inch long or less. Spikelets 

 lanceolate green ^V inch long, sessile or shortly pedicelled. Glumes 

 I and II nearly equal very small oblong truncate erose, III much 

 longer lanceolate, acuminate. Palea as long. Stamens 3. Grain 

 oblong flattened truncate bright brown. Jacq. Eclog. Gram. t. 28. 

 Kunth. Enum. I. 213. Griff. Notul. III. 46. Ic. PI. As. t. 139. f. 

 85. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 247. ViJfa erosa. Trim. Mem. , 

 Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. Sc. Nat. V. ii. 86. V. Betzii, Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 162. Agrostis diandra, Eetz. Obs. V. 19. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 

 317. 



Singapore: Kalang (Ridley 10399) ; Johor: Tana Eunto (Ridley 

 1708) ; Malacca: Ayer Panas (Cantley's Coll.) ; Malacca Hill (Ridley 

 5761); Bindings:" Lumut (Ridley 7259); Penang: Sepoy Lines 

 (Curtis 1826) ; Gardens (Ridley 11397). Distrib. Tropical Asia and 

 Australia. Very common on road sides and dry spots. Native name 

 " Rumput Tuloh Belalang." 



3. S. iXDicus, Br. Prodr. 170. Tufted stems 3 to 3 feet tall 

 often stout and hard. Leaves narrow, usually long 8-24 inches, rarely 

 ^ inch across. Panicle 18- inches long close or spreading pale, 

 branches slender covered to the base with spikelets crowded yV ^o tV 

 inch long. Glumes I and II- obtuse or II subacute, about ^ length 

 of Gl. III. Gl. Ill lanceolate acute, palea shorter. Grain a little 

 broader than in ^S*. diandra. Kunth. Enum. PI. I. 211. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VII. 247. *S'. elongatus, Br. Prodr. 170. ^. minor, Kunth. 

 Enum. I. 213. »S'. tenacissimus, Beauv. Agrost. 36. Yilfa capensis 

 and elongata, Beauv. Agrost. 16. V. exilis, Trim. Steud. II. 59. V. 

 ' indica. Trim. Steud. I. 163. Agrostis elongata, Lam. 111. I. 142. 

 A. indica, L. Sp. PI. 63. 



Singapore: Mount Faber; Johor: Jambu Larang (Feilding H. B. 

 S. 5759) ; Pahang: Pekan (Ridley 996) ; Malacca: Pengkalan Bukit 

 (Ridley 5760) ; Bindings: Lumut (Ridley 3113) ; Penang: Govern- 

 ment Hill (Ridley). Distrib. All warm countries. 



Less common than 8. diandra. It occurs in open dry spots. A 

 more robust tuft plant than the preceding with longer more crowded 

 and paler spikelets. 



3. S. PiLiFERUS, Kunth. Enum. PI. I. 311. Annual 3 to 13 

 inches tall tufted. Leaves hairy serrulate 1-4 inches long, chiefly at 

 the base. Panicle linear with branches very short erect, 1 to 3 inches 

 long dense. Spikelets J^ to ^^ inch long brown. Glume I lanceolate 

 nerveless | to § length" of Gl. Ill, II longer than III oblong lan- 

 ceolate, III oblong, palea oblong, grain oblong compressed. Hook, 

 fil Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 351. *S'. ciliatus, Duthie Grass N. W. India 



