Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 117 



(not Linn). C. palndosa Bl. Enum. I. 2. Hetcrocarpus obliquus 

 Hassk. Commel. Ind. 7. 



Selangor, Ginting Bidai at 2000 feet alt ; (Ridley 7564). " Singa- 

 pore " Hook. til. I.e. is surely an error. Distrib. India, Ceylon, Malay 

 Archipelago. 



Excluded Species. 



C. suffmticosa Bl. Enum. 3. Clarke Monogr. 188. Hook. fil. I.e. 

 371. " Malay Peninsula," no specific locality nor collector's name 

 given in either of the latter works except the name of Zollinger who 

 never visited the Malay Peninsula. 



3. ANEILEMA, Br. 



Herbs often tuberous rooted. Flowers small in axillary and ter- 

 minal panicles, bracteate and bracteolate pink white or blue. Bracts 

 not spathaceous. Sepals 3 free. Petals 3 equal obovate. Stamens 2 

 or 3, filaments naked or bearded, anthers oblong. Staminodes 2 to 4. 

 Ovary sessile free 2-3 cells 1 to many ovuled. Capsule loculicidal, 

 seeds 1 or more in each cell, with a hard wrinkled or dotted testa. 

 Species about 60. Africa and Tropical Asia. 



1. Tricarpellaria, Capsule 3 celled and 

 3 valved. Ovary cells 3-4 seeded. 



Flowering stem tall erect leafy, leaves long 1. A. lineolatum. 



Diffuse creeping plant, leaves ovate ... 2. A. paucillorum. 



Ovary cells 2 ovuled, capsule cells 2 seed- 

 ed. 



Low herbs, decumbent, leaves short linear 

 or lanceolate 



Low herb tuberous. Leaves elongate 

 linear. 



Large stout herb 2 feet tall 



Ovary cells 1 ovuled. 



Small herb with linear leaves 



Stout plant leaves lanceolate pctioled ••• 



1. A. LINEOLATUM, Kunth. Enum. IV. 69. Stems leafy stout, 

 about 15 inches tall. Lower leaves forming a rosette. Leaves elliptic 

 lanceolate acute undulate 6 inches long by I4 inch wide, edges whitish 

 glabrous, not petiole sheath 2 inch long hispid. Panicle terminal with 

 long wide spreading branches. Sepals ovate oblong reddish broad car- 

 tilaginous. Petals white. Stamens 3 fertile very hairy with violet 

 hairs 3 sterile less hairy. Ovary white. Capsule 3 angled oblong beak- 

 ed i inch, sepals persistent erect. Seeds about 3 in a cell black warty. 

 Hassk. PL Jungh. 146. Comm. Ind. 36. Clarke Comm. and Cyrt. 



