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\Sph(srocayyum. 
spikelets pale green, ovoid. Hah. In wet muddy spots in grassy 
paths in woods or forests. Singapore, Ang Mo Kio; Kranji. 
Johor, Kota Tinggi. Malacca (Koenig); Bukit Bruang (Derry); 
Ayer Panas. ’ Selangor, Semangkok Pass. Bindings, Lumut. 
Perak, Maxwell’s Hill, at 4000 ft. altitude (Burkill). Penang, 
Waterfall (Ridley). 
This plant has quite the habit of a small Isachne, but with quite different 
spikelets. The Peninsula form is smaller in all parts than the Indian one. 
55 . GARNOTIA, Brongn. 
Tufted grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets in slender 
panicles of racemes, usually strict, solitary or paired, jointed on 
pedicels; rachilla not produced beyond the flowering glumes. 
Floret I. Glumes narrow lanceolate; glumes I and II 3-nerved, 
acuminate or awned; glume III broader, with a long geniculate 
awn from the top in the notch. Grain linear. Species about 20, 
Asia, Polynesia. 
(i) G. stricta Brngn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 132, t. 21; Hook. 
fiL F.B.L vii. 243. 
Tufted grass 6 to 15 in. tall. Leaves 3 in. long, very narrow- 
linear. Panicle narrow, 3 to 6 in. long. Racemes appressed, -5 to 
I in. long. Spikelets pale green, -i to -12 in. long. Glumes I and 
II acuminate; glume II sometimes awned; glume III awned. Awn 
•5 in. long. Hab. Growing in cracks of rocks in streams in the 
mountains. Pahang, Telom River at 4000 ft. altitude (Ridley). 
Kwala Teku, Tahan River (Seimund). Perak, Gunong Inas, Sira 
Rimau (Yapp). Kedah Peak (Robinson). Disirib. India to 
Sandwich isles. 
Our form here is the var. brevi-aristata, Stapf., with no awns to glumes I 
and II, and very narrow leaves. 
56 . ARISTIDA, Linn. 
Annual or perennial grass. Spikelets panicled, i-flowered, rachilla 
articulate at base. Glumes 3. Glumes I and II empty, very narrow, 
keeled, persistent; glume III narrow rigid cylindric convolute 
acuminate, tip produced into a long tripartite awm, twisted below 
the branches. Grain narrow, free. Species about 100, all warm 
dry countries. 
(i) A. adscensionis Linn. Sp. PL 82; Hook. fil. F.B.L vii. 
224. 
A stiff wiry grass about 3 ft. tail; culms slender. Leaves very 
narrow scattered on culm, about i ft. long. Panicle dense, 6 in. 
long, contracted, sub-simple or compound, branches very short with 
fascicles of spikelets. Spikelets pale green, about -25 in. long, very 
narrow. Avni-branches very fine, i in. long, Hab. Rare. Setul 
on heaths (Ridley). Distrib. Most warm countries. 
