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4. S. MINUS, n.sp. -Rhizome long creeping slender i inch through 

 yellow, stems ahout three inches long of 3 or 4 leaves, crowded petioles 

 terete erect slender 18 inches long, knee i inch long, blade lanceolate 

 acuminate narrowed at the base into the petiole 8 inches long I2 inch 

 wide dark green above paler beneath. Peduncle slender about 3 inches 

 long from the base of the axil of one of the leaves. Capitulum about 

 an inch long. Bracts lanceolate mucronulate reddish minutely 

 scabrid on the back at the tip. Flowers small white. Calyx lobes 

 lanceate acuminate translucent 3- inch long. Corolla tube slender 

 white i inch long a little dilated towards the tip, lobes oblong lanceo- 

 late obtuse i inch long. Petaloid deeply bitid, lobes broadly subtriang- 

 ular dilated at the top. Cucullus shorter with a short lateral deflexed 

 lobe, tip edged with yellow. Stamen as long, oblong, anther cell thick 

 walled, pollen white globose. Lip oblong fleshy truncate with a strong 

 horn-like process on one side. Style stout. 



Singapore, Eeservoir Woods. In flower in June 1906. (Eidley). 



This grows in masses on the ground in rather dry woods. I be- 

 lieve I have seen it elsewhere in the peninsula but not in flower. 



3. PHACELOPHRYNIUM, Schum. 



Tufted herbs, with long petioled leaves. Inflorescence a dense or 

 interrupted panicle of spikes with distichous bracts from a petiole. 

 Floweds in pairs or threes pedicellate. Bracteoles 2 to each flower 

 Sepals linear or subovate. Corolla tube short or very short, lobes 

 oblong. Lip with an oblique villous ridge. Petaloid stamen spathu- 

 late or obovate. Cucullate short. Ovary 3 celled. Capsule three 

 angled 3 rarely 2 seeded. Seed 3 angled. 



Species 6. Nicobars and Malay Islands. 



P. tapirorum, Schum. Pflanzenr, Marant. 122. A large tufted 

 plant. Leaves petiole 4 or 5 feet long, blade ovate lanceolate 18 inches 

 long 8 inches wide acuminate glabrous. Peduncle stout about a foot 

 long. Spikes 2 or 3 together, in a tuft, tufts rather distant, about 4 

 inches long. Bracts ovate lanceolate brown 1 inch long. Flowers in 

 threes shortly pedicelled, 1 inch long enclosed singly in 2 thin bifid 

 bracteoles, white. Sepals linear subulate more than i inch long. 

 Corolla tube rather thick dilated upwards lobes oblong blunt. Capsule 

 oblong obtusely 3 angled 2 inch long three seeded. Seeds narrow 

 oblong. 



Phrynium tapirorum, Eidl. Trans. Linn. Soc. III. 382, Journ. 

 Koy. As. Soc. p. 180. 



Selangor: Ginting Bidai (Kidley 7793); Pahang: Tahan River 

 (Ridley 2398). 



In forests at about 2,000 feet alt, Endemic, 



