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Heads large and dense over an inch through densely covered with red 

 spinous hairs. Sepals lanceolate covered with pungent hairs. Stamens 

 6 anthers ohlong. Style filiform. 



Selangor : Pahang track 15th mile (Ridley) ; Perak : Bujong 

 Malacca (Ridley 9784) ; Sungei Ujong : Bukit Kupayang (Hort. Bot. 

 Gard. Sing.) 



This, of which I have not seen fruit, is remarkable for its dense 

 globose heads of flowers covered with pungent red spines. Endemic. 



7. Spatholirion, Ridl. 



Stemless herbs with a very short rhizome. Leaves ovate cordate 

 petioled fleshy. Scapes lateral shorter than the leaves, base nude. 

 Buds at first enclosed in a spathe. Panicle short, female flowers re- 

 maining in the spathe at the base few. Males numerous terminal. 

 Sepals 3 lanceolate ovate pubescent. Petals as long linear acute. 

 Stamens 6, filaments slender bearded below. Anthers globose, no 

 pistil. Female flowers larger similar to the males, but anthers sterile, 

 pistil cylindric with a thickened terete style and a three lobed capitate 

 stigma. Species 1. Endemic. 



S. ornatum, Ridl. Journ. Bot. Aug. 1896, p. 329, pi. 360. Leaves 6 

 or 7, blade deep green often marked with white, back pubescent purple 

 4 inches long and wide petiole as long brown pubescent. Scape purple 

 6 inches long, branches i inch. Spathe thick ovate mucronate H inch 

 long. Flowers rosy i inch across. Petals white. Stamens with a 

 yellow beard at base. Pistil orange. Capsule oblong triquetrous (not 

 ripe). Legeh (Machado). Rare. 



Introduced to the Botanic Gardens alive by Mr Machado in 1896, 

 where it regularly flowers, but has never produced seed. 



XV. TRIURIDEAE. 



Very small slender saprophytic herbs. Stem simple or branched 

 with a slender creeping rhizome. Leaves ovate scale-like, scattered. 

 Flowers unisexual minute pedicelled. Petals and sepals similar. Male 

 flowers stamens 2-6 with very short or no filaments. Pistillodes 3 or 

 more or 0. Female flowers with to 6 staminodes and numerous 

 crowded carpels 1 celled, 1 ovuled. Style terminal or lateral. Achenes 

 globose or ovoid in a head, fleshy with a hard nucleus. 



Two genera, one tropical Asiatic and one South American. 



1. SCIAPHILA, Bl. 



Perianth 3 to 8 lobed. Anthers sessile or subsessile at the base 

 of the perianth. Species 21. Tropical Asia and South America. 



