224 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



true F. fused Benth. occurs on the top of Government 

 hill, Penang and I met} with it also in an estate in Holland 

 road, Singapore ; a tall slender plant with short flaccid 

 grass-like leaves. I have also a specimen from Java from 

 Horsfield's collection which has the same tall habit, a 

 more spreading panicle, but with rigid, obtuse leaves. 

 The two above described are much smaller plants. 

 F. angustifolia with narrow, wiry leaves, nearly terete 

 and F, rigidifolia with somewhat similar, inflorescence, 

 but short, broad, stiff leaves. 



F. (Abilgaardia) monostachya, Perlis near Kanga (14823). 



Fuirena glomerata, Lam. Kedah, Paddy fields, Alor Sta, 

 Lankawi (Ridley). 



Distrib. Province ^Yellesley and Perak, absent from 

 the south of the peninsula, occurs in most of the old world 

 tropics. The absence of F. umbcUaia Rottb. the common 

 southern species was very marked. 



Pilajncliospdvu aurea, Vahl. Common, Kedah, Alor Sta; Perlis, 

 Kanga; Setul heaths. 



A small weak form with reluced panicle in fields at 

 Kanga. Cosmopolitan. 



Pih, Wallichiana, Kunth. Setul Heaths (14814, 14815). 



Distrib. Tropics of old world. 

 Bh. glaiica, Vahl. Pedis at Kanga. Setul heaths (14816). 



Distrib. Cosmopolitan. 



Cladium undulatum, Thw. Setul on heaths, very abundant 

 at one spot lorming great tussocks close together (1 .4824). 



Distrib. Ceylon, Labuan, Borneo, Sumatra, Australia. 

 Pahang. 



Bemirja maritima, Aubl. Lankawi sea shores. Cosmopolitan. 



Mapania tenuiscapa, Clarke. Kedah, Bukit Pinang near Alor 

 Sta (14817), Lankawi, Burau. 



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