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and smooth, the stigmas having fallen off so that the three styles des- 

 cribed by Bentham and Hooker are rather stigmas, while the true 

 simple style is gradually absorbed into the fruit). 



1. J. Malayana, Eidl.Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 44, p. 199. 

 Tufted plant with stems 6-8 feet tall, 4 inch through woody hollow, 

 and leafy. Leaves very stiff coriaceous plicate linear long acumi- 

 nate narrowed at the base bright green glabrous 18 to 24 inches 

 long 2 inches wide, many nerved. Sheaths large smooth. Panicle 

 large spreading 8 inches long, with stout hairy branches. Flowers 

 sessile or nearly so 8 inch long. Sepals 3 ovate keeled subacute with 

 a small point, ciliate at the tip. Petals as long 3, oblong truncate, apex 

 and edges ciliate. Stamens 5, with one abortive. Anthers linear 

 oblong base emarginate dorsifixed, filaments about i as long. Ovary 

 conic rugose. Style stout. Stigmas 3 shorter plumose. Fruit very 

 small globose red 3 seeded. Seeds enclosed in a pulp, globose, testa 

 thin hard black. Albumen farinaceous white. 



Perak : Thaiping Hills, by the cottage abundant in dry soil at 4500 

 feet (Ridley). Gunong Batu Putin 4500 feet (Wray) in Herb. Kew 

 (fide Rendle sub nom J. elegans) ; Selangor : Semangkok Pass (Ridley). 

 Distrib. Borneo on Matang (Coll. Bartlett). 



This seems very distinct from the other described species of which 

 descriptions and specimens have been kindly supplied me by Mr. 

 Rendle but most nearly approaches /. ascendens Gaud, of Hawaii. 



3. SUSUM, Bl. 



Unisexual aquatic or terrestrial plants with creeping rhizome. 

 Leaves fleshy crowded ensiform or lanceolate. Panicle terminal patent, 

 branches in half whorls bracteate. Flowers small sessile green or 

 yellow. Sepals and petals subequal orbicular or ovate. Stamens 5 to 

 6 filaments filiform from a broader base. Pistillode small. Female 

 flowers similar. Pistil ovoid or lobed, with 3 flat stigmas. Ovary 3 

 celled. Fruit fleshy, one seeded. 



Species 2 or 3, Ceylon and Malaya. 



(This genus has been classed under Xerotidcae, Juncaceae and 

 Flagellarieae, but is generally referred now to the latter order. It does 

 not seem to possess any very close relationship with Flagellarieae how- 

 ever, and perhaps later discoveries may make it a type of a distinct 

 order) . 



Aquatic plant, leaves ensiform ••• ••• 1. S.anthebninticum. 



Forest plant, leaves lanceolate petiolate ... 2. S. malayanum. 



1. S. anthelminticum, Bl. Schultes. f. Syst. VII. 1493. A very 

 large aquatic plant, emitting long floating stolons. Stem an inch 

 through creeping. Leaves erect 6 feet or more tall 6 inches across 



