172 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



29. Vilfa pilifcra, Trim. Diss. T. lol. IT. 23. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 



58. - 



Malacca (Hervey). Uistrib. India. 1 have seen no specimen 

 from tlie peninsula. 



35. Ehiachxe, Br. 



Tufted wiry grasses with very narrow convolute leaves. Spike- 

 lets few, 2 flowered on long pedicels, not jointed on the pedicel, rachilla 

 jointed at the base not prod\iccd Ijeyond Glume I\'. Glumes I and 

 11 equal keeled empty, II and IV narrow stiff usually awned. Palea 

 rigid 2 cuspidate or awned. Lodicules 2 oblong. Stamens 2 or 3. 

 Grain free within the palea and glume. 



Species about 24. All Australian except these two. 



Spikelets 1 inch long, palea and (il. Ill, IV 



awned 1. E. frisela. 



Spikelets l inch long awns short. Palea not 



awned . . . . . . . . . . 2. E. paUescens. 



1. E. TRiSETA, Xees. Steud. Syn. Glum. 237. Stems 18-24 inches 

 tall slender leafy. Leaves very narrow 4-G inches long, ciliate at the 

 sheath mouth. Panicles 6 inches long or less. Spikelets with the 

 awns an inch long. Glume I lanceolate subaitistate purple pubescent, 

 II, III and IV 3'ellow hard silky pubescent long awned. Palea 

 awned. Hook. fil. Y\. Brit. Ind. A^II. 2G9. Megalachne zeylanica, 

 Thwaites. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 372. 444. 



Malacca: Pengkalan Bukit, Sungei Barn (Pidley) ; Paliang: 

 Pekan sandy heaths (Hidley 1509). Distrib-. Tenasserim. Ceylon. 



2. E. PALLESCEXS, Br. Prodr. 184. A tufted grass with stems 

 G inches to 2 feet tall, leafy leaves very nai'row glabrous except the 

 basal sheathing leaves and mouth of the upper sheaths hairy. Panicles 

 narrow or lax spreading. Spikelets small | inch long purplish hairy, 

 or nearly g]al)rous, III and IV villous, awns rather longer than the 

 glumes, "palea lanceolate with two very short points. Kunth. Enum. 

 PI. I. 310. Steud. Svn. Graui. 23:. J look. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VTI. 

 2G9. E. rhincnsis, Hance. Ann. Sc. Nat. I\'. ISGl, 228. Aira 

 c/fiisa, Spreng. Syst. i. 278. 



Singapore: Fort Siloso, Galang (Ridley S04G), St. John's Isle; 

 Pahang: Pekau (llidloy 1051); Sclangor: Poad to CJinting Bidai 

 (Hidley 7773). Distril). Chittagong, Nicobars, Cochin China, China, 

 Lalnian, Borneo, Australia. Common in locky or sandy dry spots 

 especially near tlie sea. 



