180 Materials for a Flora of ihe Malayan Peninsula. 



stout. Leaves linear acuminate very luirrow 3 to 7 inches long 

 glabrous. Panicle nodding 3 to ,6 inches long, branches slender 2 

 inches long or less, spreading or usually suberect, scabrid. Spikclcts 

 ^ inch long dark grey. Glumes I and 11 subequal, I a little smaller 

 ovate keeled, keel scabrid. Flowering glumes ovate acute viscid sides 

 convex, side nerve often distinctly raised. l*alea about as long edges 

 closely eiliate scabrid caducous Avith the glume. Stamens 3 very small. 

 Grain oblong. Stapf. Fl. Brit. Ind. Yll. 318. E. luzoniensis, 

 Steud. I.e. 2GG. Pua dego.ntula, Kunth, Eev. Gram. I. 340. 



Singapore: Chasseriau Estate (Eidlev) ; Malacca: Bukit Sabukor 

 (Eidley 3.~)38) ; Pahang: Kuala Pahang "(Pidley OUT, 1-553) ; Perak: 

 Taiping; Kelantan: Kamposa (liidley). Distrib. India. Common 

 in ihimp spots by streams. Easily recognised by its tall stift' stems 

 and dark grey green spikelets. 



43. Myriostachys, Hook. ill. 



A tall glabrous perennial grass with long narrow linear leaves. 

 Panicle dense of very numerous short branches solitary or in fascicles 

 of 2 or 3 or more. Spikelets 4 to 20 flowered pale on pedicels jointed 

 at the base scabrid. Glumes I and II short ovate lanceolate keeled 

 and awned, keel scabrid. Flowering glumes coriaceous ovate cus- 

 pidate keeled scabrid, palea nearly as long, keels eiliate. Stamens 3 

 very snuill. Stigmas long, penicillate. Grain oblique ovoid obtuse. 



Species 1. India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula. 



M. WiGHTiAXA, Hook. 111. Fl. Brit. Ind. Yll. 331. var. Joiujis- 

 picula. Stems 6 to 10 feet tall, moderately stout. Leaves long 

 acuminate 2 feet long -| inch wide smooth and glabrous. Panicle a 

 foot long, branches 1] inch long scabrid. Spikelets :} to l inch long, 

 flowers 8-20 rachilla stout flexuous. Glumes I and 11 sliort with 

 longer awns, scabrid, II longer than I. Flowei'ing ghimes hardly 

 awned, palea boat-shaped. EriKjroslis Wigliliaini,, Bentli. Ic. PI. XI\'. 

 02. t. 1381. Lepluchloa Wiyhliaiia, Xees. Steud. S3U1. Glum. 209. 

 Dincbra vcrticilhita, Wight. Steud. I.e. 



Penang: Telok Bahang (Curtis 882); Province Wellesley. In 

 damp spots near the sea, local. " liuniput Laut."' 



44. LopiiATHERUM, Brngn. 



Tall rather slender perennial forest grass, with broad lanceolate 

 petioled leaves, l^anicle of few branches, spikelets secund luirrowly 

 lanceolate 1 flowered, rachilla not jointed at the base j)rolonged beyond 

 the flowering glume, bearing several terminal emi)ty awned glumes. 

 Glumes I and II empty, 111 longer awiied or mucronate. Styles 

 connate at the base, with long stignuis. (irain oblong. 



Species 1. India, China, Japan, Malaya. 



