100 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Linn. Soc. XIV. 532, confuses it with D. aurantiaca Wall, under the 

 name D. spicata var. aurantiaca and Hooker I.e. p. 331 puts it under 

 imperfectly known species. Endemic. 



14. D. NUTANS, Eidl. Trans. Linn. Soc. III. 406. Tall shrub 

 with slender stems about 10-12 feet tall £ inch through much branched. 

 Leaves narrow linear acuminate mucronate 12 inches long £ inch wide 

 bright green. Panicle 2 feet long nodding branches 6 to 7 inches long 

 very slender. Bracts small ovate acute brown. Flowers single or in 

 pairs on pedicels i an inch long, greenish white cylindric base dilated, 

 lh inch long, split for two-thirds of their length, lobes spathulate 

 linear obtuse. Stamens shorter filaments yellow. Style longer. 

 Fruit small 1 to 2 seeded orange, as large as a pea. 



Pahang, Ayer Hitam near Pekan (Ridley). Endemic. A slender 

 half sarmentose shrub, in damp thickets. 



15. D. PENDULA, Rial. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 41, p. 36. 

 Stem moderately stout about 6 feet tall. Leaves broadly oblong lan- 

 ceolate acuminate narrowed to the base and subpetiolate, petiole wing- 

 ed 8 to 14 inches long, 14 -3£ inches wide. Paniclo graceful nodding 

 15 inches or more long with few distant branches, slender 7 or 8 inches 

 long. Bracts small ovate lanceolate. Flowers in tufts of 2 or 3 dis- 

 tant white, on pedicels i inch long, slender f to nearly 1 inch in length 

 split for half their length, lobes linear dilated upwards. Stamens 

 about as long, anthers oblong. 



Bindings : on Gunong Tungul (Ridley 9448) ; Malacca : Panchur 

 (Goodenough 1745); Perak: Kwala Dipang (King's Coll. 8279), and 

 Gopeng (4643). Endemic. 



Inhabits swampy woods. The Malacca plant has broader more 

 distinctly pctiolate leaves, and the rachis of the panicle is stouter, but 

 I take it to be the same plant. 



16. D. BLLIPTIOA, Thunb. Diss. Bot. Drac. 6. A slender stem- 

 med shrub 5 to 6 feet or more tall, branches drooping. Leaves broad 

 oblong or lanceolate 6 inches long 3 inches across dull green, petiole i 

 an inch long. Panicle long lax with slender nodding branches 6 inches 

 to a foot long. Flowers i inch long solitary or in pairs white pedicels 

 slender i inch long. Bract ovate acuminate very small. Perianth 

 tube split more than half way down, lobes narrow linear. Filaments 

 very slender. Fruit globose $ inch through or 2 to 3 lobed 1 to 3 seed- 

 ed, seeds globose. Kunth. Enum. V. 14. Bak. Trim. Journ. Bot. 1873, 

 263, Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV. 534, Kurz. For. Flor. II. 544, Hook. til. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 330. P. maculata Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 158. 



Singapore : Garden jungle (Ridley 4412), Chan Chu Kang ; Johor, 

 Tanjong Kupang (Ridley), Gunong Panti ; Porak : Larut (Kunstler 

 2958) ; Selangwr : Caves, Kwala Lumpur (Ridley). 



