Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. l75 



Wcllesley : Telok Aver Tawar ; Pcnang Waterfall ( Curtis 1797). Dry 

 places. Distrib. All warm countries. Not very common here. 



39. Leptochloa, Beauv. 



Annuals. Leaves lanceolate or linear. Inflorescence a panicle 

 of slender spikelike branches bearing numerous small spikes, shortly 

 pedicelled or sessile, 1 to many flowered, rachilla slender produced 

 among the flowering glumes jointed at base. Glumes 3 or more thin. 

 Gl. I and II unequal lanceolate, III and following ovate 3 nerved. 

 Palea nearly as long. Anthers 3 small. Styles free. 



Species 12. Tropics and subtropics of both hemispheres. 



L. CHiXENSis, Kees. Syll. Eatisb. I. (1824), 4. Agrost. Bras. 

 432. Stem tall 2-3 feet often \ inch through, geniculate. Leaves 

 linear acuminate 6-18 inches long i inch through glabrous. Panicle 

 G-10 inches long, branches 2 inches long slender suberect or spreading. 

 Spikelets pedicelled ^o inch long, flowers -4 to 6, rachilla slender 

 flexuous. Glumes I and II lanceolate. Glume III and the follow- 

 ing ovate obtuse 3 nerved, nerves an edge pubescent. Palea narrower 

 nearly as long. Anthers very small. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 389. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 299. Foa. chinensis, Linn. Sp. PI. 69. 



Pahang: Kuala Tembeling, Pulau Tawar (Eidley 2140); Ke- 

 lantan: Kamposa (Eidley); Penang: Bagian Jennal (Curtis 1951). 

 Distrib. India, Siam, China, Malaya, Australia. Damp open ground 

 rather scarce. 



40. Phragmites, Trin. 



Tall reeds with long narrow leaves. PaAicle large decompound. 

 Spikes 3 to 7 flowered pedicelled jointed on the pedicel rachilla jointed 

 between the flowering glumes and about Gl. I EI, silky with long white 

 hairs. Glumes glabrous membranous I and II unequal lanceolate, 

 3 nerved. III much longer- lanceolate acute male or sterile. Flower- 

 ing glumes much narower subulate, almost artistate. Paleas much 

 shorter. Stamens 1-3. Styles free, stigmas plumose. 



P. ILv-RKA, Trim. Steud. Nom. Ed. II. 324. Stems 10 or 12 

 feet tall ^-^ inch through, glabrous. Leaves linear acuminate with 

 broad bases 18 inches or more long as much as an inch wide edges 

 scabrid. Panicle over a foot long, brownish purple large and dense. 

 Spikelets ^ inch long. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 304. P. Rox- 

 hurghii, Steud. Syn. Glum. 196. Arundu Karl-a, Eetz. Obs. IV. 21. 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. l. 348. A. Roxhurghii, Kunth. Eev. Gram. I. 79. 

 Grifl'. Notul. III. 47. Ic. PI. As. t. 139. f. 243. 



Jolior: Bukit Murdom (Kelsall), Scmpang Kiri, Batu Pahat 



(Eidley 11006); Pahang: Pulau Chengei, Pulau Tawar (Eidley 



2823); Selangor: Kuala Lumpur (Eidley 81); Malacca: Merlimau 



