182 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. "' 



Pahang: Tahan Paver; Xcgri Sembilan: Bukit Tiimiang (Cantley's 

 Coll.) ; Dindings: Liinuit (Pidley) ; Penang: Cioverimient Hill (Cur- 

 tis 1815). Dii^trib. Tropical Africa, Asia and Polynesia. Common 

 in Avoods. Native names " Riimput Darah," '' Eumput Silat Kain.-' 

 The spikelets adliere ])y their spines to clotli, or to llie fur of animals 

 and are so carried about. 



46. Lepturus, Br. 



Annual or perennial slender grasses. Spikes terminal simple, 

 straight or curved, rachis hollowed. Spikelets 1-2 flowered embedded 

 in tlie hollows of the rachis sessile solitary. Glumes 3 or 4. Gl. 

 I minute or absent, II longer than flowering glumes, linear rigid 

 acute, III and IV much shorter hyaline. Palea 2 keeled. Stamens 

 1 to 3 ovary glabrous. 



Species 6. Tropics and temperate regions of the whole world. 



L. REPEXS, Br. Prodr. 207. Perennial creeping with ascending 

 geniculate stems woody a foot tall. Leaves 3-6 inches long ^ inch 

 wide linear acuminate glaucous glabrous. Spikes straight 2-3 inches 

 long. Spikelets 2 flowered rachis stout glal)rous. Glume I absent. 

 Gl, II lanceolate long acuminate striate. Flowering glumes shorter 

 thin elliptic concave, liachilla elongate bearing an imperfect flower. 

 Brngn. Dupcrr. Voy. Bot. 57. t. 16. Ivunth. Knum. PI. I 463. 

 Hook. fil. n. Brit. Ind. VII. 365. Rotthoel/ia repens, Forst. Prodr. 

 9. Monerma repens, Beauv. Agrost. 11?. 



Johor: Pulau Tinggi (Feilding) ; Pahang: Sungei Meang (Pid- 

 ley 1422), liumpin Piver. Distrib. Ceylon, Malaya to Australia. 

 In sand along the seashore. 



47. Bambusa, Schreb. 



Shrubby or arboreous grasses usually tall and tufted. Culm- 

 sheaths broad, limb often triangular. Leaves linear or lanceolate 

 shortly petioled not tessellate. Inflorescence a large or slender pan- 

 icle, with heads on spike-like ))ranches, or panicles of spikes. Spike- 

 lets 1 to many flowered. Empty glumes at the base 1 to 4. Flower- 

 ing glumes ovate lanceolate, uppermost imperfect. Lodicules 2 or 3 

 membranous ciliate rarely absent. Stamens 6. Ovary o})long or 

 obovate tip liairy. Stigmas 2 or 3. Grain oblong to linear oblong 

 furrowed on one side. 



Species about 50. India, Malaya, Australia. 

 Arborescent, branches spiny . . . . . . 1. /?. spxnosa. 



Culms tall and slender not spiny 2. /J. ]\'raiiu. 



Shrubby stems ] inch through. 



Spikelets 1-2 incbes long in distant wborls . . 3, /?. Tiidhyi. 



