Setaria^ 
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Malacca, Sungei Baru; Chenana Putih (Cantley). Selangor, 
Rantau Panjang. Perak, Thaiping (Wray). Penang, rice-fields 
(Curtis). Setul. Distrib. Tropical .\sia. Native name: Rumput 
Julong PI Bombay, ii. 919. Panicum plicatum 
lam Encycl. iv. 736; Griff. Notula. iii. 24; Ic. PI. As. t. 139, fig. 
229; Hook. fil. F.B.I. vii. 55; Ridl. Mat. m. 136. 
A large perennial grass. Culms ascending 2 to 5 It. tail, solid. 
Leaves lanceolate-acuminate plicate scabrid, 12 in. long, 4 m. across, 
sheaths covered with pungent hairs. Panicle nodding, compound, 
18 in. long, lax, with slender branches over 6 in. long. Spikelets 
ovate acuminate, -12 in. long, glabrous. Bristles few, pale. Glume 
1 ovate blunt; glume II twice as long, ovate acuminate; glume 111 
lanceolate-ovate, acuminate. Hab. In rocky woods local but often 
very abundant. Johor, Pulau Aur (Feilding). Pahang, lahan 
River. Sungei Ujong, Pantai (Cantley). Selangor, Batu Caves; 
Bukit Kutu. Perak (Wray). Kelantan, Chaning; Kwala Aring 
(Yapp). Disirib. Indo-Malaya, China. Native name: Akar 
46 . TRICHOLSINA, Schrad. 
Perennial or annual grasses, slender. Inflorescence haiy or 
villous panicled. Spikelets oblong, laterally compressed, deciduous 
from capillary pedicels. Lower floret male or barren, upper bisexual 
Glumes very unequal or dissimilar. Glume I very small; glume II 
semi-ovate; glume III as in glume II, all covered with long soft 
hair- glume IV much smaller. Lodicules 2. Stamens 3. Gram 
oblong ellipsoid. Species 10 to 12, Old World. , 
(I) T. rosea Nees, Cat. Sem. Hort. Vrahsl. 1835 i Stapf. tn Flora 
‘^'’^Srender™ufted*trass about 3 ft. tall. Culms, lower leaves and 
sheaths sparsely hairy. Leaves narrow linear acuminate, 4-5 m. 
long -12 in. wide. Culms often branched, slender, glabroiis above. 
Pamcles 5 in. long, very slender, branches i in. long. Spikelets 
pink, hairv, -12 in. long. Hairs erect, coppery articulations with 
long pink'or white hairs (spikelets and hairs dry white) 
Selangor. Batu Caves, on limestone rocks in the quarries (Ridley, 
1920). Perak, Thaiping Hills (Burkill). Distrib. Africa. 
This plant was introduced by Mr, Stanley Arden to Batu Tiga Gardens 
about 1901. It has now thoroughly established itself at the Batu Ca\es and 
on the Thaiping Hills. 
47 . THUAREA, Pers. 
A slender prostrate branched grass in sea sand. Leaves flat 
lanceolate acute. Spikes short terminal, enclosed in a leaf sheath 
Spikelets few secund in one row, basal i to 2 feniale, terminal 
2 to 6 male; rachis flat, eventually dilated, enclosing the fruit 
Glume I small; glume II ovate-lanceolate empty; glumes III and 
IV lanceolate. Grain enclosed in the thickened rachis forming 
