* Materials for a Flora of the Malayan "Peninsula. 195 



few long pale bristles, edge fringed, ligule very short. Heads 4 to 12 

 in the spike -|-1 inch apart rachis smooth slender glabrous. Spike- 

 lets ^ inch long. Empty glumes ovate mucronate ribbed glabrous. 

 Flowering glumes lanceolate acuminate longer edges pubescent or 

 glabrous. Gamble I.e. 115. PI. 101. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 

 416. Chi oath am nils cMUanthus, Buse PI. Jungh. 387. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. III. 415. Melocanna gracilis, Munro. Trans. Linn. See. 

 XXVI. 133. 



Singapore (Wallich 5032), Bukit Timah Road (Ridley 10939) ; 

 Johor: Serom (Ridley 10990); Malacca: Batang Malacca (Derry 

 198); Selangor: Sepang Road (Ridley 7780); P'rovince Wellesley: 

 Krian (Ridley 9385). Distrib. Siam (Curtis 3236). Simiatra, 

 Java. River banks and damp spots. '' Buluh Rappen," " Buluh 

 Akar." 



3. S. Blumei, Nees. Agro.st. Braz. 535. Stems up to 30 feet 

 tall hollow and fragile glabrous. Culm-sheaths slightly attenuate to 

 the mouth Avith white bristles mouth hispid ciliate, limb leafy erect. 

 Leaves 9 or 10 inches long 1-1|- inch across, oblong lanceolate base 

 rounded or narrowed, petiole ^ inch, tip acuminate subulate scal)rid 

 on both surfaces, hispid beneath sheaths smootli striate keeled, pubes- 

 cent when young, mouth armed with few white l)ristlcs. Panicles 

 slender simple spicate or branched spikelets ^ inch long narrow cylin- 

 dric subulate crowded clustered spreading subtended by chaffy bracts. 

 Empty glumes 2 oblong, mucronate glabrous separated from each 

 other and the flowering glumes by ciliate rachillae. Flowering glumes 

 similar but much longer. Palea 1 or 2 convolute glabrous. Anthers 

 elongate blunt. Ovary ellipsoid with a long beak. I-iodicules 0, 

 Kunth.Enum. I. 435. " Ruprecht. Bamboo 43. t. XVI., XVII. flg. 4. 

 Munro. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 136. Gamble I.e. 116. PL 102. 



Singapore: Seletar (Ridley 445, 6114). Distrib. Java, St. Barbe 

 Isle (Langlasse). Xative name "Buluh Juron," perhaps introduced. 



4. S, ZoLLiXGERi, Steud. Syn. Glum. 332. Stems about 20 feet 

 tall smooth green. Culm-sheaths 4 inches long, limb triangular acute 

 1 inch. Leaves lanceolate acuminate 6-12 inches long -If inch wide, 

 glabrous above pubescent beneath sheath smooth armed with long cilia 

 at the mouth, and along Ihe edges. Panicle 8 inches long of about 10 

 heads of spikelets half an inch apart on a slender smooth rachis, spike- 

 lets half an inch long. Empty glumes ovate keeled mucronate edges- 

 ciliate. Fertile glumes longer lanceolate mucronate edges ciliate 

 lodicules 3 ovate sul^acuminate strongly nerved at base edges fringed 

 with silky hairs. Sc. Blumei, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 424 (not Xees.). 

 M. ZoUingen, Munro. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 134. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah Road (Ridley 6116), Yeo Chu Kang 

 (11294) ; Muar: Bukit Muar ^Feilding H. i3. S. 4420) ; Johor: Road 



