886 МЕ. Н, М. RIDLEY ON THE FLORA OF THE 
crasso, loculis tenuibus. Stylus tenuis, staminibus brevior. Stigma conicum 
acutum, complanatum, uncatum. Flores feminei 16 in utraque bractea in seriebus 
duabus. Васса circiter 2-pollicaris (ex sicco), rostrata, pedicellata, 5-angulata. 
Pahang, at Pulau Tijau on the Pahang River. d. 
Only one specimen of this species was found, and portions brought into camp by the 
collectors. The female flowers were too far advanced to examine, and I did not see the 
whole plant, so the description is somewhat incomplete. It is nearly allied to М. malac- 
censis, but the broad, thick, blunt, bright yellow bracts give it a totally different appear- 
ance, the spadix being quite blunt at the top. 
ТАССАСЕ Ж. 
TACCA PINNATIFIDA, Forst. 
Sea-shores, Cherating and Kwala Pahang. 
T. CRISTATA, Jack. 
Woods at Pramau, near Pekan, and Kota Glanggi. 
DIOSCOREACE Ж. 
DIOSCOREA DJEMONA, Roxb. E 
Telor Malaki, and other places on the Pahang River. Common around villages. 
This is not а “tropical forest ” plant here, as the ‘Flora of British India’ suggests. 
I have never seen it except close to the villages. It is known as “ Ubi Gadong.” Тһе 
yams can be eaten if they are cut up and plunged in running water fot about twenty- . 
four hours, otherwise they are poisonous. Their juice is used by some of the wild tribes 
to mix with the Ipoh, arrow-poison (Antiaris toxicaria). | 
D. PENTAPHYLLA, Linn.? 
A yam with axillary bulbils found at Kwala Tahan may perhaps be this. There were 
no flowers. | 
TRICHOPUS ZEYLANICUS, Gaertn. 
Abundant round the caves of Kota Glanggi. Not hitherto recorded from the ‹ 
Peninsula. 
ROXBURGHIACE Ж. 
STEMONA TUBEROSA, Lour. (5. Curtisii, Hook. f.) 
Common in thickets. Kwala Luit, Kota Glanggi, Pulau Chengei, on the Pahang 
River. : 
I have little doubt that Loureiro was describing the Malay Peninsula plant when 
he wrote his description of Stemona tuberosa. It is quite different from S. gloriosoides, 
Voigt, the Indian plant, which is described and figured with the leaves tapering into 
the petiole (and not cordate emarginate), and the flowers large and green (not brown), 
and such as they are in the Malay Peninsula plant. Kunth's Roxburghia javanica 
(Enum. Pl. у. р. 288) may be the same. 
