176 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



(Derry 236) ; ranehur (Goodonoiigli) ; Penang: Aycr Hitam (Cur- 

 tis), Distril). Tropical Asia, Africa and Australia. Native name 

 " Gudabong.'' Gomnion on river banks. 



41. Neyraiuia, J look. lil. 



A tall rather slender reed, with long linear leaves. Panicle long 

 aud lax decompound. Spikelets small [jedicelled laterally compressed, 

 racliilla short bearded with a few hairs below the flowering glumes, 

 jointed at the base above the neuter glume and between the flowering 

 glumes. Glumes I and II lanceolate unequal membranous empty. 

 Gl. Ill neutral paleate. Flowering glumes lanceolate subulate with 

 2 very short points on either side of the awn, backs ciliate. Palea 

 oblong shorter. Stamens 3. 



Species 1. Tropical Africa and Asia. 



X. MADAGASCARIEX8IS, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VLI. 305. Stems 

 about 6 to 12 feet tall smooth solid -J-J inch through. Leaves 1 to 

 2^ feet long -| inch wide glabrous, scal)erulous, base broad. Panicle 

 nodding 24-3 feet long, branches very slender filiform (5-5) inches long. 

 Spikelets long nai-row flattened ])ale, on slender scabrid pedicels, 4 to 

 8 flowered. Gluuies 1 and II lanceolate acuminate glabrous, II 

 much longei- than I, (Jl. Ill glabrous longer acuminate. Ariindo 

 iiiadaqascuriensls, Kunth. Kev. ({rain. 1. 2'* 3. t. 48. .4. Reynaudiana, 

 Kunt'h. I.e. 2T.5. t. 49. .4. Zo/liii<jcri, Buse. Miq. PI. jinigh. 243. 

 PhnKjmHpH Zol/in(/cri, Steud. Zoll. (*at. o.j. 



Perak: Thaiping Waterfall (llidley): Malacca: Selandor ((^int- 

 ley's Coll.) ; Negri Seml)ilan: Seremban (Ridley lO(K).")) : Penang Hill 

 (Pidley), Aycr Hitam (('urtis 12()) ; Lankawi Isles. Native name 

 " Rumput Mata Burong Puding." 



42. EiJAGHOSTJs, Beauv. 



Annual or ])erennial grasses generally short g1al)rous. I^eaves 

 narrow. Panicles lax or dense. Spikelets many flowered laterally 

 compressed ovate oblong or lineai;, racliilla j)roduced articulate or not 

 between the glumes. (Jlumes many imbricate distichous thin un- 

 awned. (Jlumes \ and 1 1 short empty. Flowering glumes 3 veined, 

 no callus. Palea deciduous with the gliime or persistent. Stamens 

 1 to 3. Styles free. Stigmas pedicellate. Grain minute. 



Species alK)iit loo. \\'h(»h' world, in tropical aud warm regions. 



5; 1. Cataci-asi'os. Ujubilla of spikelets 

 articulate breaking up fiom al;o\e downwards. 

 Small weak plants. 



