196 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



to the Reservoir (]7id]oy 9i:r) : :\falacca (Cantley's Coll.) ; St. John's 

 .Island (South of Sin^^aporo) (Jlidlov ll;]()0) ; Noori Sombilan: Pan- 

 tai (I^idley 100G9). Distrih. Java," A stouter plant than S. chili- 

 nnthum. I am not sure that it is wild in all of* the aljove localities. 

 "' Buluh Tulo." 



5. S. LATiFOLiuM, Gamble I.e. p. 117. PI. 103. Stems 20 feet 

 tall 1^-3 inches through internodes 2 to 3 feet long walls com- 

 pai'ativel}- thin. Culm-sheaths very large over a foot long, covered 

 with white hairs in fascicles between the nerves. Leaves long acu- 

 minate stiff 9-18 inches long, 3 inches wide, glabrous edges scabrid at 

 tip, petiole thick ^ inch long wrinkled, sheaths keeled sheaths smooth 

 nearly glabrous with a broad callus above. Ligule oblong obtuse with 

 a few fugacious cilia. Panicle simple or little branched 12-18 inches 

 long of heads of spikelets 1 inch apart on a rather slender hairy rachis. 

 Spikelets cylindric subulate, 1 inch long numerous. Bracts at the 

 base of head broad. Flowers 2 one on a clubbed rachiila very small. 

 Empty glumes ovate mucronate. Flowering glumes longer all 

 minutely pubescent and ciliate on the edges. Palea lanceolate con- 

 volute bimucronate. Lodicules 3-4, lanceolate ciliate. Anthers long 

 narrow penicillate. Ovary glabrous long beaked, style with 3 plumose 

 stigmas. 



Pahang: Kota Glanggi (Ridley 5602), Tanjong Antan; Se- 

 langor: Pahang Track to the Gap," 2-2T00 feet alt. (Ridley 84r,T, 

 Curtis 3745), Ginting Bidai (Ridley TTST). Endemic. Forming 

 a good part of the bamboo jungle of the Selangor Hills " Buluh 

 Tolor." The ]*ahaiig plant has a glabrous rachis to the panicle, 



6. S. ACicuLAR?:, Gamble I.e. p. 117. PI. 104. A dwarf bamboo 

 with slender culms branches very slender. leaves oblong acuminate 

 9 inches long 1] inch wide, bases rounded, passing into a petiole ^ 

 inch long, gla))rous or pubescent tip ensiform scabrid sheaths ribbed 

 with stiff wliite cilia at the mouth. Panicle simple over a foot long 

 slender rachis glabrous, heads of spikelets 1-li inch apart. Spikelets 

 very narrow, 1 inch or more long cylindric subulate, with 1 fertile 

 flower and one abortive one on a slender rachiila. Bracts few and 

 short. Empty glumes ovate mucronate pubescent, with a short 

 rachiila above them. Flowering glumes linear long, mucronate 

 covered with appressed hairs especially at the tip. Palea as long as 

 flowering glume convolute. Lodicules 1-4 lanceolate glabro\is. Sta- 

 mens, anthers very long and narrow apicuhite Ovary ovoid narrow 

 long I)eakcd glabrous, style long, stigmas 3- plumose. 



^Malacca: Sungei Hudang (Ridley 5(500), Bukit Kupavong 

 (Cantley's Coll.); Xegri Sem1)ilan : Kuala Pcdas (Ridley 1(»0(;5) ; 

 Dinding: Lumut (Ridlev 1(»312) ; Selangor: Ginting Bidai (Ridley 

 7788). Distrib. Sumatra (Curtis 3558). 



