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edge, red, keel in upper part thorny, nerves invisible. Male inflores- 

 cence waxy white. Spadices 2 cylindric, 2 inches long on peduncles, 

 I2 inch long. Stamens separate, anthers oblong, filaments slender 

 twice as long. Female syncarp solitary enclosed in broad lanceolate 

 acuminate bracts the lowest leaf-like, 8 inches long, upper ones 5 inches 

 long, one inch broad ovate lanceolate, margins very closely set with 

 small thorns, peduncle 6 inches long, stout. Syncarp oblong cylindric 

 2| inch long, 1 inch through. Drupes narrow oblong §■ inch long, 

 style as long erect cylindric setiform yellow when dry. Stigma linear, 

 upwards. P. Yvani Solms-Laub. Linnaea XLII. 1878, 21? Native 

 name " Pandan Tikus." 



Singapore : Bukit Mandai (Eidley 10439), fin part) Serangoon 

 Road ; Malacca : Sungei Udang (Ridley 1588) ; Selangor : Bukit Kutu 

 (Ridley 7660) ; Ginting Bidai Woods (Ridley 7658); Perak : dense 

 jungle wet ground (King's Coll. 6839) ; Sungei Ujong : Gunong Beru- 

 maun. Endemic. This may be the plant intended by Solms-Laubach 

 for his P. Yvani. The linear stigmas are pointing upwards so that 

 this should be a Byckia, but if my identification of the male is correct 

 the stamens are free, a character of Acrostigma. Martelli classes it as 

 an Acrostigma. His description is very curt and he makes no mention 

 of the peculiar spathes. 



18. P. UNGUICULATUS, n. sp. A small plant. Leaves linear lorate 

 acuminate caudate 20 inches long, 1 inch wide, thin, primary nerves 

 invisible, margins armed with small scattered pale thorns, red tipped 

 those on the keel at the tip and the tail very small. Syncarp solitary, 

 oblong, 2 inches long, li inch through, on a peduncle 2 inches or more 

 long. Drupes linear oblong *£ inch long, top conic 5 angled broad, style 

 curved upwards, beak-shaped acute, short. Stigma linear for its whole 

 length. 



Selangor : Bukit Kutu (Ridley 7659). Endemic. Allied to C. 

 parvus Ridl. but differs in the less armed leaves, the much larger oblong 

 syncarp, and very much larger drupes. 



19. P. ornatus, Kurz. -Tourn. As. Soc. Beng. XXXVIII. 1869, 

 747. A bush about 12 feet tali densely branched. Stems crowded 

 erect grey nearly smooth, thorny above, obscurely ringed. Leaves 

 narrow linear gradually acuminate light green above, glaucous beneath, 

 6 feet long, 1 inch wide, spines very small and close, white, on the 

 edges and keel and on the two nerves on the upper surface at the tip. 

 Male inflorescence 9 inches long with 6 spikes. Bracts lanceolate 

 cuspidate 6 inches long, f inch wide or less, tip and edges and keel in 

 upper part minutely thorny. Spikes 3 inches long over i inch through, 

 cylindric blunt. Anthers free, linear cuspidate, with extremely short 

 filaments. Female bracts 3-4 narrow lanceolate acuminate. Syncarp 

 usually solitary rarely 3 together, on a stout hanging peduncle, about 8 

 inches long, i inch through, triquetrous with 5 or 6 distinct bracts. 



