222 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



M. albescens, Gaud. Perlis, Tebing Tinggi. Distrib. Old 

 world tropics. 



Eleocharis equisetina, Presl. The commonest species, Perlis, 

 Kanga (14810), Setul, coveting a great area of. swamp 

 lying between Bukit Terjonkong and Bukit Eajah Wang 

 to the exclusion of almost everything else (14809). 



Distrib. not at all common in the peninsula, only 

 met with in Penang, occurring also in Ceylon, the 

 Philippines and New Caledonia. 



E. fistulosa, Lankawi, Kwala Kwah (Aniff). 



Bulbostylis barbata, Keith. Setul, common on the heaths, 

 Cosmopolitan. 



Scirpus erectus, Poir. Kedah, Alor Sta (14813), Cosmopolitan. 



Sc. grossus, Eoxb. Perlis at Kanga. 



Sc. mucronatus, L. Swamps, Setul. Old world. 



Fimbristylis acuminata, Vahl. Ricefields, Kedah, Alor Sta 

 (14818). Distrib. Trop. Asia. 



F. spathacea, Vahl. Lankawi, shores of Burau bay. 



F. asperrima, Boeck. Perlis Woods, Ginting Kabok (14841). 



Distrib. Indo-Malaya. 

 F. milincea,MM. Setul (14821) Distrib. Tropics, Kedah, 



Alor Sta (14875 ». 

 F. leptoclada, Benth. Heaths Setul (14819). Distrib. Ceylon, 



China, Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 



F. longispica, Steud. Heaths Setul (14820). Distrib. Pahang 

 East Coast, China and Japan. 



F. podocarpa, Nees. A rather stiff, wiry sedge, about 2 feet tall, 

 tufted with a short rhizome, sheaths purple. Leaves 

 narrow, linear, obtuse, stiff, 4 inches long, jo inch wide, 

 scape terete, cyme about 1 inch, 5 to 12 spikelets, about 

 i an inch long, cone shaped. Glumes ovate, minutely 

 mucronulate, hardly keeled, pale edged with yellowish 

 brown, Style bifid, flat edge, ciliate. Nut orbicular, 



Jour. Straits Branch 



