60 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



4. PHBYNIUM, Willd. 



Stemless herbs, with ovate or oblong leaves long petioled. Inflor- 

 escence capitate produced from the side of the petiole with a few large 

 outer bracts, and containing numerous flowers 1 to 3 on short peduncles. 

 Sepals linear, or oblong, corolla tube little longer, lobes oblong or ovate. 

 Petaloid obovate. Lip usually shorter with a transverse callus. Cucul- 

 late short. Ovary 3 locular. Seeds 1-3, ellipsoid 3 angled with a thin 

 dry aril, exocarp hard. 



Species 12. Indo- Malayan. 



Inflorescence from base of stem near the 



ground ••• ••• ... ... ... 1. P. basifiorum. 



Inflorescence high up on the petiole near the 

 blade. 



Bracts very hairy •• • ••• ••• ••• 2. P.hirtum. 



Bracts nearly glabrous ••• ... ••• 3. P. Malaccensc. 



1. P. BASIFLOEUM, Eidl. I.e. 182. Rhizome rather long. Leaves 

 tufted on a very stout short woolly stem, petiole tall slender, blado 

 oblong with a broad base caspidate glabrous, with hispid margins 

 Capitulum large 3 inches through from the base of the stem between 

 the leaves dense. Outer bracts woolly. Inner bracts glabrous oblong 

 lanceolate. Flowers in pairs. Sepals linear setaceous % inch long. 

 Corolla tube a little longer lobes oblong lanceolate i inch long dark 

 pink. Lip obovate broad f inch long and broad, with a large rounded 

 ridge. Stamen narrow. Ovary pubescent. 



Negri Sembilan : Perhentian Tinggi (Ridley 10,000). 

 In damp woods growing in large masses. Endemic. 



2. P. HIRTUM, Ridley I.e. 181. Leaf petiole stout 2 or I feet tall, 

 blade broadly oblong acute 15 inches wide, 8 inches across, glabrous 

 dark green. Young leaves with red backs. Heads 3 inches through, 

 outer bracts 3 inches long or less, brown woolly lanceolate acute. In- 

 ner bracts oblong lh inch long tips truncate broken up into fibres. 

 Bracteoles lanceolate acuminate acute glabrous. Flowers f inch long 

 white. Sepals linear acuminate hispid longer than the corolla tube. 

 Corolla tube rather slender lobes oblong lanceolate tipped with hairs. 

 Lip oblong small. Cucullate staminode with rather a long lateral 

 process. Capsule globose obscurely 3 lobed glabrous h inch long. 

 Seeds 3 large oblong. 



Johor: Gunong Panti (Ridley); Sungei Ujong ; Selangor : 

 Dusun Tua (Ridley 7791); Pahang Track (Ridley 8740); Perak : 

 Larut Hills, Hormitago Hill. Bu.jong Malacca (Ridley 9817) Ulu 

 Kerling (King's Coll. 8771); Penang : Government Hill (Curtis. 2420); 

 Kcdah: Yan (Bidley). 



