1922] Ridley: The Flora of Klaiig Gates. 251 



Ficus diver si folia, var. ovoidea. 



A number of bushes on rocks behind the bungalow. 

 This is usually a seashore form: it is quite erect and 

 terrestrial. 



Choriophylliim malayarmm, Benth. (Eiiphorbiaceae) . 



A bushy tree with dark green leaves and greenish- 

 white flowers. On rocks behind the bungalow, a male 

 tree. A mountain plant and almost the only plant in the 

 order which ascends above 2,000 feet. 



Eriachne pallescens, Br. (Gramineae). 



On rocks near the bungalow, common here. Not 

 rare in rocky and sandy spots especially near the sea, 

 Singapore, Selangor, Ginting Bidai, Pahang. Distrib. 

 Chittagong, Nicobars, Cochin-China, China, Borneo and 

 Australia. ^ 



Eulalia Milsiimi, Ridl. sp. nov. 



A grass forming clumps about 2 feet tall; stems 

 slender often simply branched, glabrous. Leaves sub- 

 distichous, very narrow linear acuminate, rather rigid, 

 2 in. long, .2 in. wide or narrower, broadened and 

 truncate at base with a central midrib fairly conspicuous; 

 ligule none. Spikes one to four, 1.5 in. long with a few 

 distant reduced leaves. Rachis of spike terete fringed 

 with white silky hairs, joints tufted silky white. Spikelets 

 1-stalked and 1-sessile, the stalked one articulate on a 

 silky fringed stalk. Glumes 1 to III lanceolate narrow, 

 white hairy, awned from below tip, II is very narrow. III 

 rather broader. Valve (Glume IV) very short, glabrous 

 hyaline bifid, lobes acuminate, awn .5 in. long, turning 

 brown at base, white above. Stamens 3; anthers yellow, 

 oblong. Style plumed, buff. On the bare rocks at Klang 

 Gates on Bukit Lompat Bayan. 



A very distinct species of this genus which is 

 represented in the Malay Peninsula by three species 

 E. lanipes Ridl., of Kedah Peak, E. praemorsa (Polytrias 

 praemorsa) and E. Ridleyi, Stapf : a sand-hill plant. 



Cibotium Barometz, Link. (Filices). 



Rocks above the bungalow. Local on dry hills in 

 the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Burma, Assam. 



