124 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



spiral filiform. Ovary hairy. Capsule oblong ridged £ inch long. 

 Seeds 2 in each cell semi-ovate punctate black i inch long. Clarke 

 Monogr. 237. Hook. til. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 383. F. hispida, Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5425, (not of A. Eich) a varriety with purple backs to the leaves. 

 CampeUa margined a Bl. Enum. I. 7. Amischolotypamargineda, Hassk. 

 in Flora 1863, 392. Tradcscantia sp. Griff. Notulae III. 235. 



Singapore : (Wallich 8977b) Bukit Timah (Ridley 6433J; Johor : 

 Gunong Panti, Tanjong Kopang, Pulau Tioman (Ridley) ; Malacca : 

 Bukit Kedondong (Derry 602) ; Penang : Pulau Betong (Curtis 1948). 

 Distrib. Siam, Java and Sumatra and Borneo. 



On rocks in forest, scrambling about attached by its very long 

 roots. 



4. F. MOLLIS, Hassk. Flora. 1864, 68. Comm. Ind. 84. Stem 

 stout. Leaves elliptic ovate acuminate base cuneate unequal, nearly 

 a foot long and five inches wide covered with long appressed hairs 

 above and short velvety hairs beneath, edges and midrib with long red 

 hairs, petiole distinct 4 inches long sheath velvety hairy, mouth with 

 longer rod hairs 1^ inch long. Heads t inch through covered with soft 

 red hairs. Sepals linear oblong keeled tip red hairy. Petals linoar short. 

 Stamens filaments linear glabrous. Capsule subglobose trigonous i 

 inch long hairy. F. mollis, Clarke Monogr. 236 in part. Campclia 

 niollissima, Bl. Enum. I. 7. Amischohtypa mollissima Hassk. Flora 

 1863, 392. 



Perak : Larut Hills (Ridley 2950) ; Malacca : base of Mount Ophir 

 (Ridley). Distrib. Malay Islands. Local in forests. 



5. F. MONOSPERMY, Clarko in Bulletin Herb. Boissier VI. 

 1898, 359. Stems stout creoping ascending for about four feet, h inch 

 through. Leaves oblong lanceolate dark shining green bullate above, 

 purple beneath glabrous 15 inches long six inches wide, petiole broad 

 channelled sheaths enlarged below covered with soft hairs 3 inches 

 long. Heads on the lower part of the creeping stem 1 inch through. 

 Sepals coriaceous oblong keeled hairy J inch long greenish, apex thick- 

 onod dark pink. Potals thin white slightly longer lancoolate oblong 

 obtuse. Stamens longer filaments filiform spiral with a tuft of long 

 white hairs at the tip. Anthers oblong cordate. Capsule oblong 

 shorter than the sepals. Seeds oblong 2 in each cell over £ inch long 

 flat punctate covered with a scarlet aril. 



Selangor: Caves at Kwala Lumpur (Ridloy 4599) ; Pahang : Tahan 

 River (Ridley); Perak: Larut Hills, Waterloo (Curtis). Endemic. In 

 rocky woods. 



6. F. IRHITAXS, Ridley -lourn. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 41. p 38. 

 Stom tall and stout h inch through. Leaves elliptic lanceolate with a 

 broad flat potiolo, acuminate 9 inchoslong3 inches wide, hairy on both 

 sur-facos, sheaths lk inch long, glabrous excopt the hispid edges. 



