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Lepturiis^ 
II lanceolate acuminate, striate. Hah. Local in sea-sand 
east coast. Johor. PulauTinggi (Feilding). Pahang, Sungei Meang 
and Rumpin River (Ridley). Distrih. Ceylon, Malaya, Australia. 
75 . LEPTASPIS, Br. 
Perennial forest grasses with broad elliptic or oblong petioled 
leaves Panicles terminal, branches whorled, eventually spreading, 
with short alternate branchlets. Spikelets unisexual. I\Iales 
solitary on tips of branches, very small. Glumes 3. Stamens 6. 
Female flowers 3 or 4 on each branchlet, below distant. Glumes I and 
II small empty; glume III closed into a pear-shaped utricle open at 
the top containing a palea and pistil. Gram included in the enlarged 
pear-shaped adhesive utricle. Species 3 or 4, Old World tropics. 
(i) L. urceolata Br. in Bemi. PI. Jav. 23, t. 6 ; Hook. fU. 
F.B.I. vii, 95; Ridl. Mat. hi. 150. 
Rhizome creeping, often raised above the ground on stilt roots. 
Stem I to 3 ft. tall, base covered with sheathing leaves. Leaves 
6 to 12 in. long, 2 to 3 in. across, elliptic to lanceolate acute, nar¬ 
rowed at base, stiff, dark green; petioles i in. long or more. Panicle 
6 in long, pubescent. Utricles pear-shaped, viscidly adhesive 
hairy, -25 in. long. Hab. In dense forests, whole Peninsula. 
Not rare, from Singapore to Penang, up to 2000 ft. altitude. Singa¬ 
pore, Bukit Timah; Chan Chu Kang; P^l^u Ubm. Joho^ Kwa a 
Sembrong (Kelsall); Batu Pahat. Malacca, Mount Ophir (Hullett); 
Ayer Panas (Griffith); Bukit Sadanen (Derry). Pahang, River at 
Pulau Jellam. -Selangor, Kwala Lumpur. Perak, Bujong Malacca 
(Curtisl Tapah, and Changkat Serdang (Wray). Penang (Rox¬ 
burgh) • Balik Pulau. Ceylon and Malay islands. Native 
names: Tampo Rulang; Tampo G’lang; Sayong Tikus; Rumput Babi. 
76 . BAMBUSA, Schreb. 
Shrubby or arboreous grasses, usually tall. Culm-sheaths 
broad, limb often triangular. Leaves linear or lanceolate shortly 
petioled. Inflorescence a large or slender panicle with heads m 
spine-like branches, or panicles of spikes. Spikelets i- to many- 
flowered. Empty glumes at base i to 4 - Flowering g umes ovate 
lanceolate, uppermost imperfect. Lodicules 2 or 3 ciliate, rarely 
absent. Stamens 6 (rarely 3). Ovary oblong or obovate, tip 
hairy. Stigmas 2 or 3. Grain oblong to Imear-obloiig furrowed 
on one side. Species about 50* Indo-Malaj^a, Austialia. 
Culms very tall and stout, 3 to 4 in. through. 
Culms rather distant; branchlets not spniy 
Culms crowded; branchlets with spines in threes 
Culms slender, up to ao ft. tall, often sub-scandent. 
Bush, sub-scandent; spikelets few, 2 in. long . 
Bush erect, sub-scandent or not; spikelets under 2 in. 
long. 
Spikelets not in distant heads. 
Leaves 3 in. long, *5 to i in. wide; stamens o. 
Culms 20 ft. tail; lodicules lanceolate ciliate . 
(1) B. vulgaris 
(2) B. Blumeana 
(3) B. Ridleyi 
(4) B. niagica 
