78 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Filiform bracts 7 inches long base purple tips white. Pedicels stout 1 

 inch, perianth tube campanulate purple i inch. Sepals lanceolate, 

 acute purplish i inch petals broader oblong ovate obtuse. Stamens 

 shortly pedicelled, anther conic. Stigma peltate 3 lobes retuse. 



Perak, Kamuning (Machado). Fl. H. B. Singapore. 



5. T. MINOR, n.sp. Rootstock erect cylindric 1 i inch tall. Leaves 

 elliptic acuminate or lanceolate slightly narrowed at the base 6 to 10 

 inches long 2 to 4 inches wide, bright green petiole shorter smooth. 

 Scapes 3-6 inches long. Involucral bracts olive green, outer ones lan- 

 ceolate acuminate, inner ovate acuminate as long but wider, f to 1 

 inch long. Filiform bracts 5 inches long dusky with pale tips. Flowers 

 few, in thick pedicels 4 inch long. Perianth i inch across. Sepals 

 erect about half as wide as the petals, lanceolate triangular acuminate 

 brownish green. Petals oblong triangular acuminate. Stamens purple, 

 fruit H inch long, three keeled. Seeds crescent-shaped | inch long 

 with 8 stout ridges. 



Perak, Banks at Lady Weld's Bungalow, Kwala Kangsa, and at 

 Tambun near Ipoh (Ridley) (Scortechini) ; Kelantan : Kwala Lebir 

 (Dr. Gimlette). Endemic. 



T. viridis, Hemsl. Ic. PI. 2515, 2516. '-Probably from the 

 Malay Peninsula " was collected at Trang in S. E. Siam by Mr. Gold- 

 ham. 



VIII. DIOSCOREACEAE. 



Rootstock often tuberous. Stem climbing branched or rarely 

 short erect. Leaves entire, lobed, or trifoliolate ribbed and reticulate. 

 Flowers small or minute panicled, racemose or spicate green white or 

 purple, unisexual or rarely bisexual. Perianth superior 6 lobed, tube 

 short urceolate or tubular. Stamens in male on the base of the peri- 

 anth or on its lobes, 3-6, or 3 with three staminodes, filaments short. 

 Anthers globose or oblong. Pistillode often absent. Staminodes in 

 female flower 3, 6 orO. Ovary triquetrous 3 celled. Styles 3 very short 

 with entire or bifid recurved stigmas, ovules 2 in each cell pendulous, 

 anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit baccate or a three valved cap- 

 sule. Seeds flat or globose embryo small enclosed in hard albumen. 



Stem erect. Flowers moderately large 



bisoxual 1. Trichopus. 



Climbers. Flowers very small unisexual. 



Fruit capsular "... ... 2. Dioscorea. 



Climbers. Flowers bisexual 3. Stenomcris. 



1. TRiciiorus, Gaertn. 



A small herb with a tuft of wiry simple stems 3 to 4 inches tall. 

 Leaf subtenninal cordate petiolate reticulate. Flowers 1-several on 



