116 A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 
P. (pseudechinolaena) uncinatum, Raddi. Banks by the road- 
side and shady spots, Ulu Temengoh. 
This curious grass is a new addition to our flora.. 
It is a native of India, Ceylon, Malaya and Tropical 
America. With so extensive a distribution as this it is 
rather remarkable that this grass has not been met with 
before in the Peninsula, especially as it is one of the 
grasses provided with hooked bristles on the outer 
(second) glume allowing for its dispersal by wild 
beasts. It attains aheight of about 18 inches with 
distant oval spikelets, armed with hooked bristles. 
Thysanolaena agrostis, Nees. Banks of the river at the upper 
camp, Ulu Temengoh. . 
Leptaspis urceolata, Br. Common in woods. 
Imperata arundinacea, Cyr. The lalang though occurring in 
this district does not seem to be as abundant as 
elsewhere. 
Pogonatherum saccharoideum, Beauv. On rocks in the 
the Temengoh river. 
Pollinta gracilis, Ridl. Borders of woods and river bank, 
Ulu Temengoh. ! 
Stenotaphrum Helferr, Munro. Paths through the ricefields, 
Ulu Temengoh. : 
Mnesithea rupincola, un. sp. 
A tufted grass 18 to 24 inches tall with a short 
woody rhizome. Leaves linear acuminate into a long 
point about a foot long ~ inch wide hairy beneath and 
on the edges, with thin rough pale hairs; ligule short 
rounded covered with numerous white hairs. Peduncles 
very slender in pairs from the upper axils, glabrous, 2 to 
4 inches long usually unequalin length. Spikes slender 
solitary 3 inches long, % inch through, pale creamy 
yellow, rachis joints very short turbinate shorter than 
the spikelets, smooth and glabrous except at the top 
where there is a raised ring, covered with silky white 
Jour, Straits Branch 
