CLXin. GRAMINE^. 
Hetnigymnia.] 
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tall, branching, somewhat woody below. Leaves lanceolate or 
lanceolate-linear acuminate, base cordate, usually glabrous or with 
sheath edges hairy, 3 to 8 in. long, -25 in. wide. Panicle nodding, 
4 to 10 in. long, branches numerous, not spreading, slender. Spike- 
lets very numerous, bro^vn, crowded in sessile racemes of 10 or fewer 
short pedicelled, -08 in. long, linear-oblong sub-acute. Glume I 
ovate lanceolate; glume II a little longer. Hab. Thickets among 
bushes. Common. Whole Peninsula. Singapore, Chan Chu Kang ; 
Tanglin. Johor, Serom; Batu Pahat. Malacca (Griffith). Pahang, 
Pekan. Selangor, Rantau Panjang (Kloss); Batu Caves. Perak, 
Taniong Malim (Burkill). Penang, Pulau Betong (Curtis); Penang 
Hill. Distrib. Kelantan, Kwala Aring (Yapp). Native names: 
Rumput Sarang Buaya; Rumput Mintabong. 
40 . ACROCERAS, Stapf. 
Perennial grasses with long creeping stems throwing up shoots 
to some height. Leaves lanceolate to linear. Panicles of distant 
slender branchlets. Spikelets glabrous, moderately large, ovate- 
oblong or oblong, falling entire from pedicels; lower floret male or 
neuter, upper one bisexual. Glumes membranous, pale green, with 
small deep green or black terminal crest forming a terete point. 
Glume I, ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved; glume II oblong 5-nerved, 
longer; glume III similar. Species about 9, both hemispheres. 
Tall scandent grass with wide spreading panicles . . (i) A. sparsum 
Dwarf prostrate grass, stems 6 in, tall; panicles of i to 3 u-ji 
not spreading spikes ...... (2) A. Ridleyi 
(1) A. sparsum Stapf. MSS. Panicum oryzoides Ridl. Mat. 
iii. 138 (not of Sw.). „ , , 
Culms creeping, then ascending 2 to 4 ft. tall, wiry, woody, 
glabrous Leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-linear acuminate, edge 
thickened, scabrid, 4 to 7'5 in. long, *5 in. wide, base slightly 
narrowed, a few long cilia at base. Panicle 8 to 14 m. long, with 
distant scabrid branches about 4 to 6 in. long. Spikelets distant 
■II in. long, green or purplish. Glume I ovate ribbed; glumes II 
and III twice as long, strongly ribbed; glume IV white, smooth. 
Hah. Common in the Peninsula. Open woods, thickets, river banks, 
scrambling over bushes. Singapore (Wallich). ^ Johor, Miny^c Buku 
near Batu Pahat; Kwala Kahang (Kelsall); Kota Tinggi. Pahang, 
KwalaTembeling (Ridley); Kwala feku (Seimund). Malacca, Bukit 
Bruang: Pulau Besar. Selangor, Batu Caves; Kwala Lumpur, 
Klang Gates, river bank; Rawang. Bindings, Gmmng Tungul. 
Perak, Goping (Kunstler). Penang Hill. Pulau Adang, Rawei Island, 
Kelantan, Sungei Ketah (Foxworthy). Distrib. Indo-Malay^ 
(2) A. Ridleyi Stapf. MSS. Panicum Ridleyi Hack, in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Bot. ‘iii. 400. P. latifolium Hook. fit. l.c. part, 
var. minor. (Fig. 223, p. 230.) . . . „ 1 u 
A low weak creeping plant ascending 4 to 6 m. tall, glabrous 
