56 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



other character seems to be the perispermic canal single in Doiuuc 

 double in Actoplanes, hardly sufficient to separate the genera. D. 

 GRANDIS, Eidl. I.e. 176. 



A very tall plant growing 15 feet or more tall. Stems smooth 

 green, branched clustered and jointed on a thickened portion of the 

 stem spirally. Leaves ovate acute 12 inches long, 6 inches wide base 

 rounded glabrous, petiole 1 inch long, sheaths 6 inches. Eacemes 

 slender hanging from the upper leaf-axils, 12 inches long, rachis slen- 

 der zig-zag. Bracts narrow lanceolate acute. Flowers rather distant. 

 Sepals lanceolate acuminate & inch long white pubescent. Corolla 

 tube i inch lobes lanceolate acute as long. Lip yellow oblong obovate 

 obtuse with a large ridge towards the base. Petaloid staminode oblong, 

 cucullate one broad with a large curved side lobe, antheriferous one 

 very narrow linear. Style short. Fruit globose. CUnogyne grandis. 

 Benth. and Hook. til. Gen. PI. III. 65, Bak. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 258. 



Maranta grandis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 616. Actoplanes Bid- 

 leyi, Schum. Pflanzenr. 



Singapore : Bukit Panjang (Eidley 86) Bukit Timah (Hullett 440) ; 

 Johor : Sugei Ulu Sembrong (Kelsall) ; Malacca : Bukit Panchur (Good- 

 enough 1242), Sungei Hudang (Deny 122) ; Negri Sembilan : Tampin 

 (Goodenough 1961) ; Pahang : Tahan Eiver, Pulau Tawar (Eidl. 2402) 

 Kwala Tembeling (Eidley 2402) ; Selangor : Kwala Lumpur Caves, 

 Eawang (Eidley 10490) ; Perak : (Scortechini) Larut Hills (Curtis 2071); 

 Dindings : Telok Sera (Eidley 7221) ; Province Wellesley, Krian 

 (Eidley 9387). Distrib. Tenasserim, Andamans, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Siam. 



" Bemban " of the Malays. The stems are used for making bas- 

 kets. Inhabits forests. 



Schumann is in error in stating of Actoplanes Bidleyi, that the 

 fruit is " flava di vel tri rarissime monosperma." It is quite white 

 and very rarely even 2 seeded. I have never seen it with three seeds. 

 The only two seeded plant I have seen is the No. 2401, 2402, of my 

 collection in Pahang, which has smaller leaves and indeed may be dis- 

 tinct species, but I could get no flowers. The Eastern Archipelago 

 plant, Actoplanes Cannifoiinis of Schumann Maranta Tonchat Bl. 

 may be distinct, but it seems chiefly to differ in the size of its leaves 

 and panicle. Murnuta grandis Miq. the plant on which CUnogyne gran- 

 dis Benth. was based is obviously the plant of the peninsula, as Miquel 

 distinguishes it from Maranta tonchat Bl. by that very character. 



D. ARUNDASTRUM, Lour. Fl. Cochinensis, p. 15. 



Stems numerous about 8 feet tall nearly an inch through, branches 

 dichotomous thickened at the base. Leaves elliptic base rounded 

 apex acute petiolo i inch long. Panicle erect or suberoct 2 to 8 inches 

 long, branohes few zig-zag. Bracts lanceolate green acute. Flowers 

 in pairs white on short pedicels with a yollow conic gland below the 



