Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 93 



I.e. 51. D. nemorosa Lam. Encycl. II. 276, Jacq.-Hort. Schoenbr. I. 

 49, Miquel I.e. Eoxb. Fl. Incl. II. 164. D. javanica Miq. I.e. 561, 

 Kunth. I.e. 52. D. sandvicensis, Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 97. 

 Rlmacophila javanica Bl. I.e. 14. Anthcricum Adenanthera Forst. 

 Prodr. No. 149. Phalangium AdenantheralPoiv. Encycl. V. 252. 



Common over the whole peninsula up to 4000 alt. 



Singapore: Pulau Ubin (Hervey 487), Tanglin etc., (Ridley); 

 Selangor : Ulu Selangor (Ridley 10629) ; Malacca : Bukit Bruang 

 (Derry 331) ; Perak : Thaiping (Wray 4281), Gunong Batu Putih at 

 4300 feet elevation (Wray 1024) ; Province Wellesley : Kubang Semang 

 (Curtis 2422). 



Native names " Satagit, " " Siak-Siak j an tan, " " Lenjuan, " 

 " Senjuang. " Distrib. Mascarene Islands, Indo-Malaya, Australia and 

 Polynesia. 



§ 4. ASPIDISTREAE. 



6. TUPISTBA, Ker. 



Herbaceous plants, stem short stout erect or creeping. Leaves 

 large petioled. Scape short or tall stout, spike many flowered. Flowers 

 fleshy rather large yellow or purple. Perianth campanulatejshort and 

 broad, lobes 6 or 8 recurved. Stamens 6 or 8 inserted on the middle 

 of the tube included, filaments very short, anthers dosifixed. Ovary 

 small sessile 3 to 4 celled. Style short stout. Stigma large peltate or 

 capitate entire or lobed. Ovules 2 in a cell. Berry globose usually 

 containing one large seed only. 



Species about 10. Tropical Himalayan and Burmese. 



Flowers f inch across. Stigma orbicular flat 1. T. grand is. 

 Flowers i inch across. Stigma clubbed ... 2. T. violacca. 



1. T. GRANDIS, Ridl. Journ. Bot. March 1900 p. 73. Stem stout 

 3-4 or more inches tall. Leaves lanceolate acute deep green, 24 inches 

 long, 6 inches wide. Spike erect 12 inches or more tall. Flowers 50 

 or more 1 inch long f inch across. Bracts ovate very small purple. 

 Perianth tube campanulate purple nearly black. Anthers 6 sessile 

 oblong white. Style stout taller than the tube. Stigma very large 

 rounded short flat depressed in the centre. Ovary trilocular, ovules 2 

 in each cell. Bot. Mag. t. 7829. 



Perak : Bujang Malacca (Ridley), Batang Padang at 2000 feet 

 alt. (Wray 1470). Endemic. In dense wet forest. 



2. T. violacea, Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 41, p. 35. 

 Stem short and stout. Leaves broadly oblong oblanceolate acute nar- 

 rowed gradually to the base, 3 feet long 3 inches wide, dark green stiff. 

 Spike very dense about 8 inches tall. Flowers sessile i inch across, 



