Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 123 



1. F. GRACILIS, Ridl. Journ. Roy. As Soc. S. Br. Vol. 48. p 37. Stem 

 creeping then ascending for about 3 feet slender twiggy £ inch through 

 dark green glabrous, internodes 2 inches long terete. Leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate narrowed into a winged petiole dark green glabrous above, 

 velvety beneath, mai'gin with red appressed hairs, 8 inches long 2 inches 

 wide, petiole and sheaths at mouth hairy. Heads small few flowered. 

 Bracts ovate white with a green keel pubescent. Sepals oblong hooded 

 white ciliate h inch long. Petals longer lanceolate acute white. Sta- 

 mens 6, filaments contorted with a tuft of white hairs at the top. An- 

 thers ovate deeply grooved white. Style filiform flexuous acuminate. 

 Stigma minute ovary small covered with white hairs. Capsule oblong 

 pink. F. mollis Clarke (in part not Hasskal) Monogr. 236. 



Singapore : (Walker 155) Tanglin, Pulau Ubin (Ridley 4810) ; Johor : 

 Tanjong Bunga (Ridley 6320) ; Pahang : Pulau Tijau, Pahang River 

 (Ridley 2381, 2382) ; Malacca : Sungei Buluh (Ridley 10512) ; Selangor : 

 Kwala Lumpur (Goodenough) ; Sungei Ujong : Gunong Berumbun 

 (Herb. H. B. Singapore) ; Perak : Dindings Telok Sera (Ridley) ; 

 Kedah : Gunong Jerai (Ridley). 



Common in forests. Native name " Setawa Betina." 



A decoction of the roots used by the wild tribes in cases of rheu- 

 matism. Endemic. 



2. F. Griffithii, Clarke, Monogr. 236. Stem stout H inch 

 through 2 or 3 feet tall. Leaves lanceolate acuminate narrowed at the 

 base into a petiole covered on both surfaces with hairs, thickest on the 

 back 9 inches long 3 inches wide, petiole 2 inches long very hairy. 

 Sheaths £ to 2 inches long, mouth hairy. - Heads small, § inch through 

 sub-glabrous. Sepals oblong obtuse glabrous. Capsule oblong f inch 

 long. Seeds solitary in each cell « inch long reniform rugose and groov- 

 ed. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 



Johor : Gunong Pulai (Ridley) a very stout and hairy form. 

 Malacca, (Maingay 1712 in part), Ayer Panas (Griffith 5485 part) ; 

 Selangor : Jasin (Derry 499), Bukit Sadanen (Holmberg 856), Foot 

 of Mount Ophir (Hullett 844) ; Negri Sembilan : Perhentian Tinggi 

 (Ridley). In forests. Endemic. 



3. F. MARGINATA, Hassk. Flora 1864, p. 630, Commel. Ind. 90. 

 Stem very stout far creeping 2 inch through. Leaves elliptic lanceolate 

 dull green acuminate narrowed at the base but hardly petiolate 12 to 14 

 inches long, 3 inches wide glabrous above except the edge, keel and 

 base of lip on back hairy sheaths large margins hairy. Heads large 

 much branched and lax, f to 2 inches through. Bracts ovate hairy, 

 lower ones purple. Flowers £ inch long. Sepals obovate boat-shaped 

 green, cartilaginous, one larger than the others. Petals a little longer 

 ovule thin white. Stamens filiform twisted with a long tuft of hairs 

 at the top. Anthers oblong grooved between the cells. Style long 



