390 MR. Н. №. RIDLEY ON THE FLORA OF THE 
FLAGELLARIA. 
FLAGELLARIA INDICA, Linn. 
Common at the mouth of the Pahang River. “ Rotan Binni” (wife's rattan) or 
“ Rotan Tikus " (mouse, $. e. small rattan) of the Malays. 
SUSUM ANTHELMINTICUM, Blume. 
Woods near Pekan. 
The common Suswm here seems to belong to one species; the panicle is sometimes 
narrow and sometimes large and spreading. In the ‘Flora of British India’ the stem is 
given as 3-5 feet high of 5. anthelminticum, but Jack correctly, as regards the Malayan 
plant (his Veratrum? malayanum), describes it as having the leaves radical, and so does 
Miquel (Flora Neder. Ind. iii. p. 347). I have never seen a stem so much as two feet 
high; the leaves are nearly always radical, in fact the plant only makes a stem at all 
when growing in deep wet spots. 
PALME. 
Areca CaTECHU, Linn. 
Commonly cultivated. 
ACTINORHYTIS CALAPPARIA, H. Wendl. et Drude. (-Areca cocoides, Griff.) 
The men brought from one of the villages, a few miles above Pekan, a couple of fruits 
of this palm and asked if they could be used as betel-nuts. I only saw the tree in the 
distance. It is probably native here. Тһе genus is omitted from the * Flora of British 
India.’ 
PINANGA DISTICHA, Blume. 
This charming little dwarf palm is abundant in the Tahan woods, and I also found it 
at Tanjong Antan, and at Pulau Tawar on the Pahang River. It is here called * Pinang 
Luggong.” 
P. MALAYANA, Scheff, 
Kwala Tenok, Tahan River, in wet places. 
P. ЗОВВОМТМАТА, Весе. 
. Rumpin River (W. Foz). 
P. PERAKENSIS, Весе. ? 
Tahan woods. 
NENGA WENDLANDIANA, Scheff., var. MALACCENSIS. 
Tahan woods, also near Pekan. : 
This palm, which is very common in swampy forests in Singapore, is called ** Pinang 
Umu” (Purple Pinanga) by the natives, on account of its red leaf-sheaths. 
