Introductory Note. 



The three parts of the Materials for a Flora of the Malay 

 Peninsula dealing with the Monocotyledons were written in the 

 same style and form as the other parts of this work which were 

 In-ought out in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 by Sir George King, aided by other botanists. The first part 

 was published in July 1889 and the work has continued to the 

 present day, iDeing now nearly completed to the end of the 

 Gamopetalae, leaving now only the Apetalae, to be completed. 

 The three volumes of the Monocotyledons were published respect- 

 ively on. 



Errata Vol. I. 



p. 18 lines 33. Gnting read Ginting. 



75 „ 22. Andenopetalum read Adenopetalum. 



83 „ 42. bifidum read semibifidmn. 



109 ,, 5. paueiflora read pauciflorum. 



li. Eri read Eria. 



125 „ 35. Arudina read Arundina. 



159 „ 2. Garwailca read Garwalica. 



213 „ 24. *Gleiculata read Geniculata. 



Addendum. 



Page 84 under Exchided species, mention should have been 



made of 



CiRRHOPETALUM LONGESCAPUM, Teysm. & Binn. in Tijd- 



schr. Neder. Ind. XXIV. (1862) p. 310. " Penang 



Lobb." 



The description given excludes it from the genus Bulho- 



pliylhtni and as the type, in the Buitenzorg herbarium has 



perished, it is impossible to guess what plant was intended. 



