32 GRASSES AND SEDGES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



Johor — Scudai Kiver, Johor Eharu. 



Malacca — Tanjong Kling, Ayer Panas. . 



Penang — Waterfall. 



Pah ang — Pe k an. 



Kelantan — Kamposa. 

 E. Wightiana, Nees. Very rare. 



Penang — Near the coast. 

 JET. nutans, Eetz. Dry, sandy heaths. Not common. 



Pahang — Pek an. 



Siam — Bangtaphan (Dr. Keith). 



LEP TUBUS. 



L. repens, E. Br. Sands of the sea shore. Rather rare. 

 Pahang— Sungei Meang, Enmpin Eiver. 



BAMBUSACEM. 



There are a good number of species of bamboos to be met with 

 in a wild state in the Peninsula, but very few of them have 

 been collected. It is nearly impossible to identify a bamboo 

 out of flower, and, as is well known, it is by no means common 

 to find plants in flower. So that it is almost a rule among 

 tropical botanists that whenever a bamboo is seen to be in 

 flower specimens must be collected. There are large extents of 

 bamboos in many parts of the Peninsula, but of what species 

 is not yet known. I met with a large patch of a species of 

 Dendrocalamus in Bukit Kuda near Klang, of which every 

 joint was full of most excellent water, even the twigs being 

 full though the ground beneath was remarkably dry. Several 

 species of bamboo are cultivated, some for ordinary use, 

 others as hedges, or for the edible shoots, especially Bambusa 

 na?ia, the hedge bamboo. 



GIGANTOCHLOA. 



G. verticillata, Monr. Common and often cultivated. I found it 



in flower at Tivoli in Singapore. 

 G. heterostachya, Murr. 



Malacca — Ayer Panas (Griffith). 

 I have not seen this species, 



MELOCANNA. 



M. Blumei, Nees. Singapore — Eoadside at Selitar. The flowering 

 glumes, Hackel says, are larger than the type. It is perhaps 



