Gahnia.l clxii. cyperace^. 169 
less than *25 in. long. Glumes black-brown, basal three or four, 
lanceolate, mucronate, upper ones blunt. Nut oblong (retained by 
filaments), blunt, trigonous, yellow, then red, less than i ft. long. 
Hah. Mountains at from 2500 to 7000 ft. altitude. Common. 
Johor, Bukit Murdom (Kelsall); Gunong Pulai; Pengaram Hill, 
Batu Pahat. Malacca, Mount Ophir. Pahang, Gunong Tahan. 
Selangor, Bukit Hitam; Menuang Casing (KIoss). Perak, Thaiping 
Hills; Gunong Batu Piitih (Wray); Gunong Kerbau (Robinson). 
Penang Hill. Kedah Peak. Distrib. Malay islands to Polynesia, 
China. Native name : Sereh Bukit. 
(3) G. castanea Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. vi. i, p. 60. 
A large tufted plant. Leaves with a broad purple sheathing 
base, over 2 ft. long. Panicle 18 in. long; spikelets on slender 
peduncles about 50, with 5 or 6 spikelets at apex. Glumes lanceolate 
mucronate chestnut-red, lower one tubular enclosing two or three 
branchlets. Spikelets i-flowered, -2 in. long, glumes imbricate. 
Stamens 3, filaments very long; anthers long acuminate. Ovary 
cylindric; style very long, black. Hah. Perak, Gunong Kerbau 
(Robinson). Distrib. China. 
17 . REMIREA, Aublet. 
Rhizome very long, throwing up short leafy-stems. Leaves long, 
stiff. Spikes capitate, of numerous densely crowded spikelets. 
Glumes 4, lowest empty, uppermost bisexual. Bristles 0. Stamens 
3, unilateral. Style trifid, not dilate at base. Nut cylindric, brown, 
reticulated. Species i. All tropical sea shores. 
(i) R. maritima Auhl. PI. Guian. i. 45, /. 16; Clarke in Hook, fil, 
F.B.I. vi. 677; Ridl. Mat. iii. 99. 
Leafy stems, 2 to 4 in. tall. Leaves pungent, i to 6 in. long. 
Head of spikes sessile or peduncled. Spikes ovoid, about 4, Spike¬ 
lets curved, -12 in. long. Hah. Common in sea-sand, whole Penin¬ 
sula on both coasts. Singapore, Tanjong Katong. Pulau Tiuman 
(Burkill). Malacca (Griffith). Pahang, Sungei Meang; Cherating. 
Penang, Batu Feringhi (Curtis). Lankawi, Burau Bay. Pulau 
Adang. 
18 . HYPOLYTRUM, L.C. Rich. 
Tufted herbs; leaves broad, 3-nerved. Culms with one or two 
leaves, bearing a corymb of oblong spikes, on stiff branches. Bracts 
leaf-like. Spikelets globose, small, of i terminal female flower, 
and 2 boat-shaped glumes containing i stamen each (squamellae). 
Style continuous with ovary. Nut small, biconvex, bony, style 
forming a conic beak. Species 25, tropics. 
Stout plant with broad leaves; glurpe-edges not 
scarious .(i) H. latifolium 
Small plants with narrow leaves. 
Glume edges scarious, white; leaves thin herbaceous {2) H. proliferum 
Glumes red-brown, hairy; leaves coriaceous . . (3) H. radians 
