Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



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Drupes smooth or distinctly angled. 

 Syncarps globose. Leaves broad 3 nerved 



abruptly caudate. 

 Syncarp li inch long ••• 

 Syncarp 2 inches long ••• 



Leaves linear very long and stiff almost 

 stemless ••• 

 Ei'ect plant leaves linear subherbaceous 



Drupes pyramidal at the tip attenuate 

 into the style. 

 Syncarps ovate-elliptic. Drupes broad with a 

 rounded top. Leaves glaucous beneath 



Drupes very narrow. Leaves not glaucous 

 Syncarp oblong ••• 

 Syncarp cylindric 



Syncarps always spicate. 

 Syncarps 6 oblong ovoid 

 Syncarps oblong 

 Syncarps globose apex of drupes conic 



Apex of drupes broad angled 



12. P. parvus. 



13. P. glaucophyllus. 



14. P. ovatus. 



15. P. collinus. 



1G. P. monotheea. 



17. P. Kidleiji. 



18. P. unguiculatus. 



19. P. ornatus. 



20. P. atrocarpus. 



21. P. penangensis. 



22. P. aurantiacus. 



23. P. perakensis. 



§ 1. Keura. 



1. P. FASCICULARIS, Lam. Encycl. 373, t. 1. A large shrub often 

 forming large clumps, 10 to 15 feet tall and much branched. Leaves 

 long linear caudate acuminate glaucous beneath, 6 feet or more long 2 

 inches across with strong grey upcurved thorns on the edge and decurv- 

 ed ones on the keel. Male inflorescence 2 or 3 feet long. Bracts 3 

 feet long, 2 inches wide white leaf-like with green tips, edges and keel 

 thorny. Spikes 3 or more, 3 inches long. Stamens connate in tufts i 

 an inch long, white, free portion of filaments recurved. Anthers in 

 whorls long narrow. Syncarps as big as a man's head, bright orange 

 red 6 to 8 inches through. Drupes confluent hard and woody 2 or 

 more inches long, obconic top rounded. Kunth. Enum. III. 98. Solms, 

 Laubach, Linnaea XLII. 38. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 485. P. 

 odoratissimus Roxb. Cor. PI. I. 65, t. 94, p. 6. Fl. Ind. III. 738. 

 Kunth. I.e. 94. Griff. Notul. III. 159. I.e. PL As. t. 174. 



P. candelabrum Kurz. Journ. Bot. V. 1867, 127 (not Beauv.) and 

 P. vents Kurz. I.e. 125. P. odoratus Salisb. Prodr. 3. P. Bheedii. 

 Gaud. Voy. Bonite Bot. t. 22, f. 12. P. leucaeanthus Hassk. Flora 

 1842 II. Beibl. 14. P. tectorius Warb. Pflanzenreich IV. p. 46. 



Singapore : Sea Coasts, Sungei Jurong (Ridley 5003) ; Johor : 

 Tanjong Bunga (Ridley 6289) ; Malacca Coasts ; Pahang : Pekan, etc. 

 Distrib. India, Malay Islands, Polynesia, China, Mauritius. Common 



