86 Materials for a Flora^of lite Malayan Peninsula. 



broad connective. Anthers longitudinally dehiscing. Ovary small 

 unilocular. Stigma sessile. 



S. tubcrosa, Lour. Fl. Cochin. 404 (not of others). Roots tuber- 

 ous. Stem slender twining. Leaves alternate or opposite herbaceous 

 ovate cordate acuminate 9-11 nerved, 4 to 5 inches long, 3 to 2 inches 

 wide, petiole slender 2h to 3 inches long. Flowers unisexual pendent 



1 inch long, about 6 in axillary racemes with ""slender scabrid peduncles 



2 inches long, pedicels j inch. Bracts ovate lanceolate acute & inch 

 long. Male flower. Sepals 2 lanceolate acute recurved connate at 

 base. Petals erect similar, pink with green backs. Stamens as long 

 acute, filament broad petaloid pink with a strong keel in front, connec- 

 tive prolonged acute. Anthers narrow divaricate linear. Capsule 

 oblong beaked an inch long. Seeds strongly ribbed. 



S. Curtisii, Hook. hi. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 298, Bot. Mag. t. 7254, 

 Wright Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 495. 



Pahang : Pulau Changei, Pahang River (Ridley 2384); Perak : 

 Lumut (Ridley 10305) ; Penang : Waterfall (Curtis 1522) ; Kedah : 

 Yan (Ridley). Distrib. Siam, Cochin-China. 



Loureiro's description such as it is applies better to the peninsular 

 plant with red flowers, than to the green flowered Indian S. (jloriosoidcs 

 Voigt. Wright, l.c.c. erroneously refers the Pahang plant to this latter 

 species. I have only seen one species in the peninsula. It is abun- 

 dant on the banks of the Pahang River. He seems to have been misled 

 by finding the leaves opposite in some specimens. They are often op- 

 posite and alternate on the same plant. 



X. LILIACEAE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, with fibrous or woody roots, or bulbs or 

 corms. Leaves various. Flowers bisexual. Perianth inferior rarely 

 sub-cpigynous, petaloid. Sepals and petals 6, rarely 4 or 10. Stamens 

 G rarely three, filaments free or connate, anthers oblong or linear. 

 Ovary 3 celled, ovules 2 or more in a cell, anatropous, or rarely ortho- 

 tropous from the inner angles of the cells. Style 1 rarely 3. Fruit 

 baccate or drupaceous, or capsular. Seeds globose, angled or flattened. 

 Embryo small in horny or fleshy albumen. 



Species about 2500 in all regions of the world. Those occurring 

 in the Malay region mostly belong to the more aberrant groups. Fruit 

 capsular. 



>; 1. Pkotoluuaceae. A small leafless 

 saprophyte ••• ••• 1. ProtvlirionS 



§ 2. OPHIOPOGONEAE. Seeds with a thick 

 ileshy testa (blue) breaking through the ovary 

 walls when quite small and remaining attach- 

 ed to the withered perianth. 



