130 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. Flagellaria, L. 



Stem woody climbing by the cirrhose leaf tips. Leaves sessile, 

 narrow. Panicles terminal. Flowers bisexual small. Sepals 3. Petals 

 3 little longer. Stamens 6. Styles 3. Seed single or 2. 



Species 2, one Polynesian, the other tropics of the Old World. 



F. INDICA, L. Sp. PL 333. Stems i inch through or less, climbing 

 to a great height. Leaves lanceolate sheathing at the base, 6 to 10 

 inches long £ to \ inch wide. Panicles 2 to 3 inches long or more 

 much branched. Flowers small clustered white sessile. Sepals orbi- 

 cular. Petals oblong blunt a little longer. Stamens 6 filaments fili- 

 form. Anthers long narrow. Styles 3 very thick long. Drupe pink 

 i inch through globose, pulp thin. Seed 1, testa black. Kunth.Enum. 

 III. 370. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 154. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 249, Redoute 

 Lil. V. 257. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 391. 



Singapore : Kranji (Ridley 1645) Bajau (3589a); Johor: Tana 

 Merah, (Ridley) ; Malacca : Sungei Rambai (Derry 308). Sungei Udang 

 (Goodenough 1816) ; Pahang : Pekan (Ridley). 



var. minor. Stems very slender, short, leaves 3-4 inches long i 

 broad. Panicle 1 to 3 inches. F. minor Bl. Roem. and Schultes 

 Syst. VI. 1493, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 249, Suppl. 598. 



Singapore : (Wallich 5199, F. angustifolia) Changi (Ridlev 6025) ; 

 Malacca: Bukit Sabukor (Derry 275); Perak : (Wray 3157). Distrib. 

 Tropical Africa and Asia and Australia. 



Very common especially near the sea, seldom far inland. " Rotan 

 Tikus," " Rotan Binni." The stems are used in basket work. 



2. JOINVILLEA, Gaud. 



Reedlike erect perennial plants, with hollow stems. Leaves plicate 

 stiff lanceolate or linear acuminate. Panicle terminal lax branches 

 sinuate pubescent. Flowers scattered small. Sepals 3 chartaceous. 

 Petals 3 about as long. Stamens 6 or one abortive hypogynous free, 

 filaments slender. Anthers oblong or linear, cells parallel. Ovary 

 superior conic, style stout simple. Stigmas 3 linear. Berry very small 

 succulent, pericarp eventually crustaceous, 2-3 seeded. 



Species 4. Hawaii, New Caledonia and Malay Islands to the 

 Peninsula. 



(Note. — The pistil is described (Gen. Plant III. p. 861) as with 

 " styli 3 a basi stigmatosi." In the flower of the Malayan species the 

 pistil consists of apparently a conical ovary with a distinct stout style 

 bearing three Stigmas at the top, the style being much longer than the 

 ovary. As the fruit ripens however the style disappears so that the 

 fruit appears to be a conic body with the three stigmas persisting, and 

 sossile on the top of the fruit. When quite ripe the fruit is globose 



