Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 97- 



Dindings : (Finlayson Wall. Cat. 5149), Pangkor (Eidley 7250), 

 Lumut (Eidley 8395) ; Perak : Bujong Malacca. 



var. angustissima, Leaves very narrow with long slender points. 

 Perak, Gunong Putih (King's Coll. 8073). Endemic. 



5. D. PORTERI, Bak. Journ. Bot. 1873, 262, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XIV. 529. A low little branched shrub 2 to 5 feet tall, with the stern 

 as thick as a pencil. Leaves linear acuminate or linear lanceolate, 12 

 to 15 inches long \ to \\ inch wide, narrowed at the base into a petiole 

 dark green. Inflorescence erect racemose, or with a few short branches 

 a foot long, branches when present 1 or 2 inches. Bracts at the base 

 of branches linear acuminate. Flowers in two and threes white I inch 

 long lobes linear blunt, free for more than \ their length, tubes slightly 

 dilate at the base. Filaments rather slender. Berry $ inch through 1 

 to 3 seeded orange. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 328. D. tcmiflora 

 var. CiLvtisii Hook. fil. I.e. 329. 



Singapore : (Wallich 5148B), Garden jungle (Ridley) ; Johor : Gun- 

 ong Pulai (Ridley); Malacca : (Griffith 5874), (Maingay 1687), Ayer 

 Panas, Mount Ophir (Ridley 3148); Selangor : Petaling (.Ridley); 

 Penang : Waterfall (Porter and Wallich Cat. 5148a). 



Common in woods. Native name " Jarum-Jarum Padang." 

 Hooker I.e. says that Wallich's plant 5148a has spotted leaves. I have 

 examined this and see no spots on it. 



6. D. TERNIFLORA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 159. A low shrub 2 to 3 

 feet tall. Leaves elliptic to elliptic lanceolate cuspidate dark green, 5 

 to 9 inches long 3 inches wide ; petiole 1 to 2 inches long channelled 

 and hardly winged. Inflorescence hardly or not branched racemose 

 erect 12 inches long, base with lanceolate acuminate bracts. Flowers 

 5 or 6 in a tuft white, pedicels i inch long. Perianth a little over an 

 inch, split about 2 way down, lobes linear obtuse. Stamens as long. 

 Berrv globose or 3 lobed 1 to 3 seeded orange. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. 329. Regel. Revis. Drac. 16. D. tcrnifolia Kurz For. Fl. II. 545. 



Singapore : Garden jungle, Changi (Ridley 4758) ; Johor : Tanjong 

 Surat and Jambu Larang (Feilding) ; Malacca: Surgei Hudang (Ridley 

 1357) ; Pahang : Tahan River (Ridley 2393) ; Perak ; Dindings : Lumut 

 (Ridley) Kol (King's Coll. 10,511), Larut (King's Coll. 2719) ; Penang : 

 Balik Pulau, and Coast (Curtis 901).. 



7. D. SINGAPURENSIS, Ridl. Journ. Bot. Apr. 1896, p. 4. A 

 dwarf plant with rather a weak stem a foot tall, £ inch through. Leaves 

 elliptic or lanceolate acute to subacute 7 inches long by 2 i inch wide, 

 dull, dark green, petiole deeply grooved slightly winged 2 inches long 

 or less. Bracts small ovate acute. Pedicels i inch long. Raceme 

 short 2 inches long. Flowers crowded in threes. Perianth nearly 

 cylindric, tube split more than £ way down, lobes lorate white. "Stam- 

 ens shorter. Anthers conic. Style longer. Fruit small globose red. 



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