178 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Singapore: Chaiigi (Eidley 6107); Province Wellcslcy: Teluk 

 Ayer Tawar (Ividley 6998); Pcnang: Dato Kramat (Curtis 1831). 

 Distrib. India and Africa. Sandy i^laces near the sea. 



3. E, INTERKUPTA, Bcauv. Agrost. 71 (not of Eoem. and Schultcs 

 nor Trin.). Perennial 2 or 3 feet tall. Stems -J- ^^ inch through 

 glabrous. Leaves linear acuminate 12 inches long l inch wide. 

 Panicle variable, stiff interrupted or flaccid long and narrow over a 

 foot long, branches slender short or long 3 inches, solitary or sub- 

 Avhorled. Spikelets -J inch long brownish pedicelled, rachilla jointed 

 breaking up from the top downwards. Glumes 1 and 11 ovate 

 boat-shaped l^lunt subequal. Flowering 6 to 12 longer ovate obtuse, 

 palea smaller and narrower glabrous. Stamens 2 very small. Stapf. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 316. E. nutans, Nees. Steud. Xom. Ed. II., i. 

 563. E. diplachnoidcs, Steud. Sj'n. Gram. 268. 



Pahang: Pekan (Kidley 1007). Distrib. India and Africa. 



Pare on sandy heaths. The only variety I have seen here is the 

 var. diplachnoidcs, Stapf. with a long lax panicle or branches not 

 whorled. 



•1. E. A.MABiLis, "Wight, and Arn. Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beechy 

 Toy. 251. Annual 6 to 18 inches tall slender. Leaves linear acu- 

 minate 2-1 inches long, ■] inch wide flaccid except for a few hairs at 

 the mouth of the sheath. Panicle compact eventually spreading 

 usually with slender solitary branches. Spikelets flat ovate occasion- 

 ally oblong i-'i inch long, rachilla persistent. Glumes falling oft' with 

 the paleas from the base empty glumes. Flowering glumes 20 to oO 

 close set boat-shaped keeled, keel scab rid very short mucronulate pale 

 or ])ink, witli two raised green i'il)s on the sides, ])alea shorter elliptic. 

 Keels winged minutely scabrid. Grain ellipsoid flattened. Stapf. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 317. E. polymorpha, Trin. Steud. Xom. Ed. II., 

 i. 364. E. ruhcns, Hochst. Miq. Analcct. Bot. II. 26. Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 265, E. unioloidcs, Xces. Steud. I.e. 264. Poa iindli/loru, 

 Pioxb. Fl. Ind. I. 338. 



Singapore: Common in waste ground, 'Panglin (liidley 64); 

 Pahang: Pekan; Malacca: Ayer Panas (Cantley's Coll.); Kelantan: 

 Kamposa; Penang Waterfall^Curtis 1800). Distrib. Tropical Asia. 

 ■\'ery common, soniewliat variable according to locality in development 

 of panicle, and colouring. Xativc name " Pumput Kulam Padang.'' 



5. E. MALAYANA, Slapf. Fl. Biit. Ind. YII. p. 317. Annual, 

 foiining tufls. Stems rather slender 7-18 inches tall genieulatc. 

 Leaves very narrow linear 3 inches long Jeinch wide convolute when 

 di-y. Panicle rather luirrow or bi-anches at length spreading 2 inches 

 long, branches ^-1 inch long. Spikelets pale xV inch long ovate 

 liattcned or linear oblong. Glumes closely imbricate ovate rounded 



