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inch across, occurred abundantly in the low country at 

 Chupeng, forming impenetrable masses 7 or 8 feet 

 tall (14870). Distrib. Indo-Malaya. 



P. pilipes, Nees. Perlis, Chupeng. Distrib. Mascarenes, Indo- 

 Malaya, Australia. 



Sctaria glauca, Beauv. Setul Heaths (14873). 



Here many of the spikes were pale whitish green anrl 

 not orange tawny as in the ordinary plant. Cosmopolitan. 



Oplismenus compositus, Beauv. Common on the limestone 

 rocks, Kedah, Alor Sta, Perlis, TebingTinggi. Cosmopol- 

 itan. 



Thuarea sarmentosa, Pers. Lankawi, Kwah seashore (14854) 

 Distrib. Madagascar, Ceylon, Nicobar, Malaya, to 

 Polynesia. 



Or y2a latifolia, Desv. Kedah, base of Gunong Geriang. Dis- 

 trib. Malay peninsula. 



Perot is latifolia, Ait. Lankawi sea shores (14855). Distrib. 

 Tropics of old world. 



Dimcria Kurzii, Hook. til. Setul Heaths (14880). I have seen 

 no specimen of this plant from the original habitat 

 Burmah, but I think this is the plant intended. It has 

 very much the habit of D. omithopoda, but the spikes are 

 solitary ; the reachis bears white silky hairs and I see no 

 awn to the second glume, otherwise it tits the description 

 of D. pusilla, Thw. 



D. fuscescens, Trin. Perlis at Kanga (14881), (14882), and a 

 variety with broader, very hairy leaves at Setul. Common 

 in fields and sandy heaths, a beautiful grass with its long 

 purple spikes. 



Distrib. India, Tenasserim. 



1). omithopodioidcs, Trin. Lankawi, Kwala Kwah.(Aniff). 



Distrib. Malay peninsula. 



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