66 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



opening at the top only. Style longer. Stigma simple inaequilateral 

 obscurely lobed. Fruit globose white hairy. Bot. Eeg. t. 770, Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. II. 145. Benth. Fl. Austral. VI. 448, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 

 585, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 278. 



Molinicra recurrata, Herb. Amaryllid. 841. Baker Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XVII. 120. Kurz. Ann. Mus. Bot. Ludg. Bat. IV. 175. M. 

 pUcata Colla. Hort. Bipping. App. II. 333, t. 18. M. capitulata Herb. 

 I.e. Leucoj'um capitulatum Lour. Fl. Cochin-ch. 199. 



Singapore : Tanglin, etc., (Bidley) ; Sungei Ujong : (Herb. B. G. 

 Singap.) ; Perak : Larut Hills at 2000 feet alt. (Ridley). Distrib. India, 

 Ceylon, Malay Islands, China and Australia. 



Woods and open country common, Native name " Lumbah 

 Merah." Fruits eaten by natives. A very beautiful variety of this 

 with the upper side of the leaves silvery and the back purple has been 

 found by Mr. Curtis at Ipoh in Perak. 



2. C. VILLOSA, Wall. Cat. 57G3, A. Kurz. Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. IV. 176. Leaves narrow lanceolate acuminate caudate plicate, 

 stiff glabrous above cobwebby beneath 2i feet long, 6 inches wide. 

 Racemes erect 2 inches long on a short flat peduncle. Bracts stiff 

 oblong acute apices recurved 2 inches long i inch wide or less glabrous 

 green. Flowers ocre yellow I inch across. Ovary with beak an 

 inch long pubescent. Sepals lanceolate acute. Petals shorter and 

 blunter. Stamens as in G. latifolia. Fruit long beaked greenish white. 

 Seeds few black smooth and shining about half as large as those of 

 C. latifolia. 



C. latifoUa var. villosa, Bak. Journ. Linn. Soc. XVII. 125, Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 280. 



Singapore : (Wallich 5763 A). Tanglin, etc., (Ridley) ; Johor : 

 Bukit Soga ; Batu Pahat (Ridley). Distrib. Malay Islands. 



Not rare in the south of the peninsula, growing among long 

 grass and scrub in open country. The long acuminate leaves cobwebby 

 beneath and the broad oblong recurved bracts like those of a Curcuma 

 make it easily distinguishable. The beak of the fruit is as long as 

 the ovary and very stout. 



3. C. LATIFOLIA, Dryand. Act. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, II. 253. Stem 

 very short, or hardly any. Leaves lanceolate hairy on both surfaces 

 3o feet long or less nearly 6 inches across plicate, petiole over 6 inches 

 long. Spike erect on a peduncle 3 to 4 inches long, at first globose 

 lengthening as the flowers open sometimes to as much as 6 inches. 

 Lower bracts ovate acute greenish white £ inch long. Flowers bright 

 yellow I inch across. Ovary pubescent beaked. Perianth lobes 

 oblong | inch long. Stamens 'i rather short. Anthers splitting 

 for their whole length. Fruit 1 inch long ovoid sparsely hairy 



