. 7. 



S. coviosa. 



. 8. 



S. pauper. 



. 9. 



S. elonrjata. 



. 10. 



S. lasiohotnjs. 



. 11. 



S. Griffithiana 



. 12. 



S. arcuata. 



. 13. 



S, siibglahra. 



t 14. 



S. merrjuemis. 



.. 15 



S. racemosa. 



. 16. 



S. viacrantha. 



.. 17 



S. serrulata. 



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Sepals acute, hardly awned :— 

 Leaves at tip acute or subacute : — 



Spikes in fruit rather dense, often recurved . . 

 Inflorescence of one poor terminal panicle . . 

 Spikes in fruit long, very lax, panicled : — 

 Bracts and calyx with short hairs 

 Bracts and calyx viscous, with gland-tipped hairs 

 Leaves at tip rounded ; bracts elliptic, obtuse . . 

 Sepals with linear obtuse tip : — 

 Leaves elliptic obtuse ; sepals hairy 

 Leaves lanceolate-acute ; sepals glabrous 

 Calyx '125 to '175 in. long : — 

 Corolla -6 in. long : — 



Leaves with triangular obtuse tip, upper surface pubescent 

 Leaves lanceolate-acuminate, upper surface glabrate 

 Corolla 1 in. long 

 Corolla '75 in. long ; leaves serrulate 



1. Staueogyne setigeea, O. Kuntze Eevisio I. 497 (1891). A 

 weak herb, 4 to 12 in. long, often branched or decumbent. Stem 

 pubescent, usually rusty upwards. Leaves 2-5 by '75 to 1 in. ; tip 

 triangular ; base ovate or cuneate ; mature nearly glabrous on both 

 surfaces ; petiole '25 to "5 in. long. Inflorescence of one terminal 

 sessile head (a second on a short axillary peduncle sometimes added), 

 ovoid, dense, '5 to "6 in. in diam., in fruit lengthening out to 1 in., 

 rarely to 1-5 in. Seixds linear, very slightly unequal, the longest one 

 •4 in. long, linear, scarcely linear lanceolate ; its awn with many patent 

 short hairs, and also long several-celled scattered hairs, but no gland- 

 headed hairs. Corolla -6 in. long, from purple-pink to pink-white, 

 nearly glabrous without in the bud. Ovary glabrous ; style base with a 

 few hairs. Capsule -2 in. long. Ehermaiera setigera, Nees in DC. 

 Prodr. XI. 76; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX. 451 (1867) ; C. B. 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 398; Eidley in Trans. Linn. Soc, 

 ser. 2, III. 332 (1893), and in Journ. As. Soc. Straits 121 (Singapore 1900). 

 E. trichocephala, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 11. 774. E. suhcajpitata, C. B. 

 Clarke in Bot. Tidskr. XXIV. 348 (Kjobenhaven 1902). Adenosma 

 uliginosa var. [i erecta, Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 70; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 II. 771 2^artly {not of E. Br.). 



Malacca : Cuming 2355. Peeak : Scortechini ; Wray 1878 ; Larut 

 Perak, 500 to 800 ft., King's Collector 2192. Coping : King's Collector 

 1132. Pahang: Bidley 2178 (jjartly). Selangoe: Curtis 2363; Kota 

 Glanggi, fide Bidley. — Disteib. Common in Sumatra, also in Java, 

 Borneo, Siam. 



The dried specimens of this species are dusky green, often obscurely red-brown 

 at top, the leaves sometimes whitened beneath. Kurz, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. II. 



