162 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Pahang : Tanjong Antan, Pulau Changei (Ridley); Perak : Bujong 

 Malacca (Eidley), Box Hill, Larut Hills (Fox), Goping (King's Coll. 

 469, 8127), Salak (Scortechini 5267). Hill forests to about 4000 feet 

 altitude. Endemic. 



6. L. FEERUGINEA, Becc. Flor. Brit. Ind. 432. Stem very shorti 

 practically none. Leaves about 10 on a plant petiole stout over 3 

 feet long, thorny at the base only thorns small, leaflets 10 to 13 very 

 variable in width ribbed stiff dark green, apex erose with blunt teeth. 

 Central leaflet much the largest, 3 feet long 1 to 9 inches wide at the 

 apex. Inflorescence deflexed or horizontal 2 feet long with simple 

 branches. Spathes brown pubescent slightly silvery 4 inches long 

 mouth lacerate rachis thick covered with red tomentum. Flowers 

 crowded sessile more rarely almost pedicelled. Calyx short cup-shaped 

 3 lobed, lobes ovate pubescent. Petals triangular yellow. Staminal 

 crown half the height of the petals not lobed, anthers six very small, 

 ovary often bilobed. Drupe ellipsoid bright rose pink. 



Singapore: very common Garden Jungle (Ridley 3168). Bukit 

 Timah (Ridley 3512). Ang Mo Kio (Ridley 6676) ; Selangor : Caves, 

 Kwala Lumpur (Ridley) ; Johor : Tebrau (Ridley) ; Kedah : Yan (Ridley). 



A very distinct kind remarkable for the thick spadix covered with 

 red wool and dense mass of pink fruits. Woods in the low country. 

 Endemic. 



7. L. LONGIPES, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 330. Palm. Brit. 

 Ind. 125. t. 224. A.B. (Kurz. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLIII. 204. Flor. For. 

 II. 528. Hook. fil. I.e. 431). Stemless or almost so. Leaves large orbi- 

 cular in outline petiole over a foot long broad and stout, thorny for 

 two-thirds of its length, thorns stout, leaflets deep green 14-18 inches 

 long, 3-4 inches broad at the apex cuneate erose crenulate, about 8-20. 

 Spadix about 5-12-24 inches long stout, spathes dilate broadly toothed 

 at the apex, 3 incbes long. Branches stout 3 inches long spreading, 5 

 or 6 on a common peduncle. Flowers crowded «• inch long. Calyx 

 eylindric with a broad base, lobes short ovate. Corolla lobes short 

 ovate. Fruit globose \ inch through. Seed globular as large as a pea. 

 Woods in the hills common. 



Johor : Gunong Pulai, Gunong Panti (Ridley) ; Malacca : Aver 

 Panas (Goodenough 1406) lower slopes of Ophir Range (Griffith) ; Negri 

 Sembilan : Tampin (Goodenough 1962), Gunong Angsi (10121) (Ridley 

 10120, 3474); Selangor: Pahang Track; Perak, Maxwell's Hill. 



8. L. KuNSTLElti, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. 433. Stem " 4 feet tall 

 by 4-5 inches diameter." Leaf largo about 15 lobes, about 18 incbes 

 long and over an inch wide, median much larger, apex broad but little 

 erose, lateral lobes with one or more long teeth, petiole slender 3 feet 

 long triangular in section, thorny for about two-thirds its length, thorns 

 rather long decurved. Inflorescenco a foot long, branches three spikos 



