152 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Native name " Pinang Sapadan." In damp woods to 4000 feet 

 alt. Lobb's plant from " Singapore " (Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e.) is doubtless 

 wrongly localised. Some of the specimens of King's collection, viz. 

 431 and 8227 described as the var. major Becc. in the Flora of British 

 India are apparently either large forms of I. (jeonomaeformis or 

 I. spectabilis Ridl. 



I. diffusa, Becc. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. from Gunong Hijau, 

 Larut Hills (Scortechini) of which there is a sketch in the Kew Her- 

 barium, seems to be a large form of this species with the branches of 

 the inflorescence branched. 



I. pdrvula Becc. I.e. 417, Perak (Scortechini drawing in Herb. 

 Kew) is I think a small form of the same thing. Only a single speci- 

 men seems to have been found. 



4. I. coeniculata, Becc. Males. III. 187. Stem slender 3 to 4 

 feet tall barely i inch through, internodes f- to li inch long. Leaves 

 pinnatisect 10 to 12 inches long, 6 to 8 inches wide, leaflets 5-6 pairs 

 cuneately trapezoid 3 2 to 4 inches 1-1 i inch wide narrowed at the base 

 and ending at the apex in a tail, furfuraceous beneath, petiole slender 4 

 inches long. Inflorescence a simple spike 8-12 inches long including 

 the peduncle 3-4 inches. Spike rusty scurfy, flowers spirally arranged. 

 Spathe 1 slender tubular. Male flowers very small. Fruit narrow 

 elongate conical tip incurved, granulate t to t inch long j inch wide. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 417. 



Perak, Selama (Kunstler 3131) at 3-400 elevation. Endemic. 



5. I. POLYMOEPHA, Becc. Males. III. 182. Stems very slender 3 

 to 7 feet tall i inch through. Leaves pinnate 8-15 inches long with 4 

 to 12 trapezoid leaflets narrowed at the base upper margin acuminate 

 4 inches long If to to 3 inches wide dark green sheaths narrow 3-6 

 inches long, petiole slender. Inflorescence from below the leaves 

 peduncle slender 4 inches long or less, glabrous, branches 6 to 9 slender 

 about 6 inches long. Flowers very small in scattered pairs. Males 

 sepals short rounded. Petals oblong obtuse twice as long. Females 

 sepals short rounded. Petals longer strongly ribbed when dry. Ovary 

 conic. Styles short rocurved. Drupe ovoid or elliptic ovoid. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 417. I. brevipes Hook. fil. I.e. 416. 



Perak, (Scortechini 318b), Larut Hills (Curtis 2078), King's Coll. 

 2022), Bujong Malacca (Ridley 9803). 



var. canina Becc. Males. III. 190. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 417. 

 Inflorescence with more numerous and thicker branches, flowers sub- 

 distichous. 



Perak (Scortechini), Larut Hills (Ridley). Endomic. 



6. I. FEitRUGiNEA, Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 41, p. 40. 

 Stem slender short. Loaves 18 inch long, petiole 4 inches rachis red 



