194 Malerials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Heads of spikck'ls and simple spikes. 



.Solitary or 2 or o . . . . . . . . 1. ^S'. iciiuc. 



Heads 4 to 13 in a simple spikes . . . . 2. *b'. diU'w.nlhnni. 



Spikes panicled, 

 ►Spikes under one ineli long. 



Lodicules . . . . . . . . . . 3. *S'. B/iunci. 



Lodicules 3 . . . . . . . . . . 4. >S'. Zollinycri. 



Spikelets one inch or more long. 



Stems 20 feet. Spikelets 1 iudi long . . 5. ^'. lulifvliuin. 

 Small plant. Spikelets 11 inch long very 



narrow and hairy . . . . . . G. S. aciculare. 



1. S. TENUE, Gamble I.e. ll-f. PI. 100. A slender bamboo culms 

 weak 12 feet long ^ inch through green fistular. Branches very 

 slender in Avhorls. Culm-sheaths oblong glal^rous about 3 inches 

 long, mouth strongly bearded truncate limb triangular acuminate 

 smooth 21 inch long. Leaves narrow linear lanceolate light green -1 

 to G inehes long y-f inch across base broad, ])etiole short apex subulate 

 scabrid on the edges, sheaths smooth with a broad callus and narrow 

 ligulc. Inflorescence a terminal spike of one or occasionally two 

 or three heads with few spikelets with one or more chaffy bracts ^ 

 inch long or less. Spikelets narrow acuminate. Empty glumes 1-2 

 ovate acuminate mucronate 5-7 nerved. Flowering glumes longer. 

 Palea longer, 2 keeled, glabrous. Lodicules 3 ovate acute hairy 

 within. Grain ovate long beaked, beak bent to one side, :] inch long 

 with the beak half an inch. Hook. iil. Fl. Bj'it. Ind. VII. 415. 

 tScliizo^tacliijant eleyanti^siininti, Kurz. Ind. For. I. 348. Jitunbum 

 elcfjaniissinia, Ilassk. PI. Jav. Par. 12. JJccsha clcyaiiliifsiina, 

 Munro. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 140. 



Johor: Kota Tinggi, Piver Bank, Teluau Piver (Pidley lillG) ; 

 Pahang: Kuala Berar (Pidley 5590); Malacca: Ayer Panas, Bukit 

 Tungul (Pidley 5G0) ; Kcmaman (Vaughan Stevens). Endejuic. 

 Piver Banks. I doubt whether this is more than a form of 8. chili- 

 anihiun. 



2. S. ciiiLiANTiirM, Kurz. Ind. For. 1. 348. Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XXXIX. II. 88. Stems usually slender 15 to 20 feet tall ^ 

 inch through. Branches slender in dense whorls at the nodes. 

 Culm-sheaths 3 inches long snwoth truncate with light brown pubes- 

 cence mouth with rather a thick edge fringed witli stiif pale bristles 

 lower edge fringed with short straight bristles, limb triangular acu- 

 minate with a broad base, H inch long. Leaves nari'ow lanceolate 

 aeumimde ligbt green D to 12 inches long I to 1 inch wide midrib 

 i'airly strong edges scabrid; petiole very short mouth of sheath with a 



