Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 129 



2. N. MINOR, All. Fl. Pedem. II. 221. Stems much branched 

 intemodes long or short. Leaves linear narrowed upwards falcately 

 recurved, base broad, toothed half an inch or more long, sheaths 

 rounded truncate with prominent teeth, rarely more or less auriculate. 

 Flowers solitary, males sessile, spathe ellipsoid ending in a shortly 

 cylindric toothed neck. Perianth 2 lipped. Female flower nude 

 ovary ellipsoid. Style long cylindric. Stigmas 2. Achene obliquely 

 linear oblong, testa hard brown marked with scalariform rows of pits. 

 Kunth. Enum. III. 113, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Inch VI. 569. Eendle 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. V. p. 410, PL XLI. 105-115. N. dichotoma, Eoxb. 

 Rort, Beng. 71. Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 749. N. ternata, Eox. Griff. Not. 

 III. 183. Ic. PI. As. t. 252. Caulinia fragilis, Welld. Mem. Acad. Boy. 

 Soc. Berl. 1728, t. 1, f. 2. 



Malacca, (Griffith 5609/5, 5609/7). 



3. N. KiNGll, Eendle. Trans. Linn. Soc. V. 415, PI. XLI. figs. 

 126-131, p. 442. Branches long straggling ending in a dense bushy 

 growth, internodes li-ll inch long. Leaves over an inch long, linear 

 narrowed, apex 1 or 2 toothed with numerous ascending teeth 16-19 

 on each edge base triangular apex tipped with a dark brown spine. 

 Sheath large and broad with overlapping edges, upper edge truncate 

 with broadly rounded shoulders bearing about 10 teeth. Flowers soli- 

 tary, male and female on the same shoot, male sessile spathe ellipsoid- 

 al ending in a cylindric neck with numerous' spines at the mouth. 

 Perianth fitting closely to the ellipsoidal 4 locular anther above ending 

 in two thickened lips. Achene with 30 rows of small hexagonal pits. 



Singapore, (Schlesich. Botan. Tauschv. No. 528). Ditches, Tang- 

 lin (Eidley). Distribution, Andamans and Tonkin. 



XVIII. FLAGELLAEIAE. 



Climbing shrubs or terrestrial or semiaquatic herbs. Leaves many 

 nerved petiole sheathing. Flowers small in terminal panicles uni- 

 sexual or bisexual. Sepals 3 imbricate. Petals a little longer. Stamens 

 6 hypogynous, filaments free. Anthers basifixed erect. Ovary superi- 

 or 3 celled. Styles short or long, stigmas 3. 



Fruit a drupe or 2-3 seeded berry. 



Seeds albuminous. 



Flowers, Bisexual. 



Stem scandent woody, climbing by cirrhose 



leaves 1. Flagellaria. 



Stems erect reed-like hollow. Plants unisex- 

 ual • •• ... ... ••• ... ... 2. Joinvillea. 



Stems prostrate, leaves large succulent ... 3. Susum. 



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