88 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pen insa/u. 



Stamens shorter than the petals filaments narrowed upwards. Anthers 

 oblong. Carpels narrowed upwards into short styles. Stigmas capi- 

 tate. 



Perak : Gunong Keledang, Thaiping Hills, etc., (Ridley), Gunong 

 Bubu (Wray) ; Kedah : Gunong Jerai (Ridley). 



In dry woods at the base of Dacrydium at an altitude of 1 to 3000 

 feet. 



§ 2. Ophiopogoneae. 



2. Peliosanthes, Andr. 



Herbs with a short creeping stem. Leaves petiolate lanceolate 

 or plicate grassy. Scapes usually shorter. Flowers small green, 

 white, or purple, racemose. Perianth tube short campanulate, lobes 

 similar lanceolate. Stamens 6, filaments broad connate in a ring often 

 iidnate to the perianth tube, anthers introrse very small. Pistil adnata 

 to the stamina! ring or nearly free from it. Style short. Stigmas 3, 

 small recurved. Ovary 3 celled, ovules 3 or more anatropous. Fruit 

 capsular splitting at the top when very young. Seeds 1-3 developed 

 pushing through the top of the capsule, oblong light blue when ripe 

 with a thick fleshy outer coat. Endosperm globular enclosing the 

 embryo. 



Species about 15. India, Siam and Malaya. 



Flowers several to each bract ... ... ••• 1. P. Tcta. 



Flowers solitary in each bract. 



Ovary superior. 



Flowers globose deep purple ••• _ •• 

 Flowers expanded green or purplish. 



Small i inch across 



Large ^ inch across 

 Ovary inferior. 



Petals and sepals ovate white 



Petals and sepala ovate yellow 



Petals and sepals linear green 



1. P. Teta, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 605. Loaves 1 or 5 petiole slon- 

 der 6 inches long, blade narrowly lanceolate acuminate thinly coriaceous 

 5 nerved 6-9 inches long 1 inch wide. Raceme lax 8 inches tall rachis 

 purple. Bracts ovate to ovate lanceolate cuspidate acuminate i inch 

 long. Flowers 2-3 in a tuft expanded § inch across, pedicels shorter 

 than the bracts. Sepals ovate subacute green edged violet. Petals 

 shorter quite rounded at the tip dark green odged white. Stamina) 

 ring hardly elevated adnata to the petals almost to the top, dark violet. 

 Style thick columnar 3 lobed nearly to the base, about as long as the 

 stamens. Ovary completely inferior. 



