158 - CLXII. CYPERACE^. [Fimhristylh. 
(18) F. miliacea Vahl. Eniim. ii. 287; Clarke in Hook. fil. 
F.BJ. vi. 644; Ridl. Mat. iii. 95. 
A tufted erect plant i to 2 ft. tall. Leaves thin, narrow, half 
or nearly as long as culm. Stem slender blunt, trigonous. Umbel 
2 to 4 in. long, decompound. Spikelets subglobose, -12 in. long, 
brown. Glumes oblong blunt, chestnut, keel green. Style short, 
3 arms long. Nut ovoid, warted, with numerous transverse bars. 
Hab. Common in damp spots, waste ground, etc., all -'over the 
Peninsula. Distrib. All warm regions. Native names: Rumput 
Keladi (Colocasia grass); Rumput Kerbau (Buffalo grass). No 
doubt on account of its being common in spots where Colocasia 
grows and which buffalos haunt. 
A form from Perils has broader stiffer leaves and cone-shaped spikelets 
as in quiyiquangiilans Kunth. 
(19) F. globulosa Kunth. Eniint. ii. 231; Clarke in Hook. fil. 
F.B.I. vi. 645; Ridl. Mat. iii. 95. 
Rhizome short but distinct in old plants. Culms 8 to 18 in. tall ; 
sheaths at the base often without leaf-blades or with longer or shorter 
leaves. Umbel i to 2 in. long, rays few, sub-erect. Bracts *25 to 
•50 in. long, erect. Spikelets globular or oblong, -ii in. long, few. 
Glumes ovoid obtuse, chestnut, edge scarious. Nut one-third the 
length of the glume, obovoid, thickly tubercled. Hab. Common 
in damp spots, in open country, w’hole Peninsula up to 3000 ft. 
altitude on Gimong Kerbau (Robinson). Distrib. Indo-Malaya, 
China. Native name : Rumput Sandang. 
Among forms of this common species, 1 have noted some with the umbels 
reduced to one spikelet, and a form in Johor with a number of empty glumes 
at the top making the spikelets lanceolate. 
(20) F. complanata Link. Hort. Berol. i. 292; Clarke in Book, 
fil. F.B.I. vi. 646; Ridl. Mat. iii. 96. F. scabra Kunth. Emmi. 
ii. 245. 
Rhizome short and stout or absent. Culms 8 to 24 in. tall, 
flattened. Leaves linear blunt or prjemorse, 6 to 8 in. long. Umbel 
compound, i to 4 in. long. Spikelets -12 in. long, narrow acute, 
brown. Glumes narrow lanceolate, brown-red, keel and mucro 
green. Nut small obovoid, white, tubercled. Hab. Common in 
shady spots in woods, Singapore, Chan Chu Kang; Tanglin. 
Malacca, Chabaii. Pahang, Kwala Tesibeling. Selangor, Kwala 
Lumpur (Seimund). Penang (King). Distrib. All warm regions. 
(21) F. asperrima Boeckl. Linncca, xxxviii. 40; Clarke in Hook, 
fil. F.B.I. vi. 643; Ridl. Mat. iii. 96. 
Plant usually large, tufted, with very numerous leaves 2 to 3 ft. 
long; rhizome stout and short. Leaves 18 in. long or more, -ii 
to -25 in. wide. Culms 18 to 24 in. long. L'mbel decompound, 
6 in. long. Spikelets very numerous, often over 100, fusiform, acute, 
brown, -12 in. long, Glumes narrow lanceolate, keeled, mucronate. 
Nut ellipsoid, yellowish, trabeculate, half as long as the glume. 
