Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 61 



Hill woods at about 2,000 feet alt. Native name " Lerek betina. " 

 Endemic. 



3. P. MALACCENSE, Ridl. I.e. 180. A large tufted plant. Leaves 

 numerous 3 feet long slender, blade 15 inches long 5 inches wide lan- 

 ceolate cuspidate dark green above glaucous beneath, midrib covered 

 with thick brown fur. Head lateral from the petiole 2 inches across, 

 of about 5 branches. Bracts lanceolate acute stiff hard green glabrous 

 li inch long f inch wide. Flower spikes 5 or 6 on each branch, 2 or 

 3 flowers on each. Bracteoles lanceolate acute 1 inch long. Flowers 

 small shortly stalked. Calyx lobes lanceolate acute hispid white nearly 

 as long as the corolla tube. Corolla tube dilated upwards, lobes 

 ovate blunt spotted purple. Lip spathulate oblong white, with a pink 

 line across it. Cucullate staminode falcate spathulate white edged 

 yellow, petaloid 1 obovate bilobed, antheriferous one linear. Capsule 

 1-3 seeded angled cordate i inch long, red hairy. Seeds oblong angled 

 black aril semitransparent. 



Malacca : Panchur (Perry 295); Negri Sembilan : Tampin Hill 

 (Goodenough 1948). Perhentian Tinggi (Eidley 10,001); Muar; 

 Selangor, Kwala Lumpur (Ridley) ; Pahang : Kwala Tembeling (Ridley 

 2397) ; Dindings : Gunong Tungul (Ridley) ; Perak : Larut Hills. 



Woods in the hill districts. Native name "Lerek." Endemic. 



Excluded Species. 



Phrynium capitatum, Willd. and P. parviflorum, Roxb. " Malay 

 Peninsula " Baker in Flora of British India VI. 258, 259. I have 

 seen no specimens of from our region. 



P. variegatum, N. E. Br. 111. Hort. XXXIII. 125, t. 206. 



A plant of unknown origin, cultivated for many years in the Bo- 

 tanic Gardens, Singapore, and introduced into F.uropean cultivation 

 n 1886, flowered in the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, and proved to bei 

 a variety of Maranta arundinacea, the arrow root. 



§ 3. Cannaceae. 



Canna indica var. orientalis, and C. Warcewiczii, have established 

 themselves in villages and waste spots near towns, but have no claim 

 to be considered natives of the peninsula. 



§ 4. LOWIACEAE. 



Stemless plants with petiolate lanceolate leaves. Inflorescence 

 panicled from among the leaves with the dark purple lanceolate bracts. 

 Flowers medium size to large. Calyx tube long cylindric nearly solid. 

 Sepals 3 long lanceolate. Petals 2 small and 1 very large obovate. 



