64 A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG, 
Andropogon, sp. . 
Habit of A. nardus and faintly scented. No flowers seen the 
inflorescence being replaced by branches of leaves. Very abundant 
on the rocky slopes in the small bay of Pulau Rawi. 
Thuarea sarmentosa, Pers. 
Seashores, Pulau Adang and Pulau Nipis. 
Schizostachyum insulare, n. sp. | 
Stems about 3 inches through, 20-40 feet tall. Leaves lanceo- 
late acuminate with a long point; margins of the denticulate base 
narrowed cuneate, 12 inches long 15 inch wide, petiole channelled 
x inch long. Sheaths ribbed, ligule, of long bristles + inch long. 
Inflorescence over a foot long of 5 or 6 spikelets crowded with tufts ; 
tufts an vine apart, with lanceolate bracts us the base, half an inch 
long and 4 inch wide. Spikelets an inch long. Empty glumes 
at base 2 Bi ovate keeled mucronate + inch; cl lanceolate keeled 
mucronate, margins at the top bristly + inch; III, elongate lanceo- 
late mucronate very bristly at the tip: IV, elongate narrow lanceo- 
late, apex slightly bristly. Palea lanceolate convolute. Filaments 
slender connate, Anthers linear long, not penicillate 4. Ovary 
narrow subcylindric. Lodicules oblong with a rounded tip, brown 
pubescent. 
Pulau Rawi. 
Near S. latifoliwm but the leaves are thinner, and narrowed to 
base, the filaments connate, anthers 4. 
Schizostachyum dumosum, n. sp 
A slender erect bamboo, with hollow stems 4 inch .or more 
through ; internodes over 6 inches long smooth. Leaves lanceolate 
acuminate, base broad, slightly narrowed at the extreme base 6 
inches long, # to 1 inch long, margins scabrid, petioley4, inch long, 
ligule none, a black edge to the sheath only marking it. Inflores- 
cence terminal 2 feet long, slender, with tufts of slender branches 
6 inches long or less from the nodes, Spikelets in ns about half 
an inch long, crowded. Bracts papery ovate about 4 inch long. 
Spikelet 4 inch long ~4 inch through acuminate. Glume T:— 
ovate minutely cuspidate + ribbed. Glume II :—ovate lanceolate 
6 ribbed half as long again. Glume III:—longer lanceolate. 
Glume IV :—elongate ‘lanceolate distinetly cuspidate. Flowering 
glume 1 paleaceous. Stamens 3. Filaments connate. Anthers 
brown dehiscing only at the top, ovary beaked with a long conic 
acuminate beak, hairy. Style filiform red brown. Stigmas pur- 
ple feathery fairly long. 
Rawi island on a dry rock, face of the island forming dense 
thickets, the stems usually short 6 or 7 feet but sometimes much 
longer. 
FILICES. 
Trichomanes javanicum, Bl. 
Pulau Rawi and Pulau Butong. 
Jour. Straits"Branch 
