232 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



P. herbaceus, Martelli. I.e. 303. Acrostigma. " Syncarpia (soli- 

 taria) 3 cent. diam. globosa, drupae ovate, cuneatae 1 cent, longae, 5 

 mm. latae, caverna mesocarpica, bene manifesta 2 mm. longa. Irang 

 (Trang) Perak." 



2. Freycinetia, Gaud. 



Scandent shrubs climbing often to a great height. Stems rather 

 slender rooting. Leaves narrow acuminate as in Pandanus. Bracts 

 often brightly coloured, yellow or red, and not leaf-like. Spikes race- 

 mose, peduncle cylindric. Males slender, filaments filiform or conic. 

 Anthers ovate. Female spikes stouter, of numerous carpels often with 

 staminodes. Ovary unilocular. Seeds numerous. Stigmas sessile, 

 usually horseshoe-shaped. Species 60, Burmah, Ceylon, Malay Islands, 

 and Polynesia. 



BRACTS NOT LEAF-LIKE, orange or red. 

 Leaves very narrow i inch across. 



Bases unarmed ••• ••• ••• ••• 1. F. angustifolia. 



Base and sheath armed ••■ ••• 2. F. confusa. 



Leaves narrow, stiff, i inch wide, armed 

 at the base. Bracts stiff, long, acum- 

 inate • •• ••• ••• ••• ••• 3. F. acuminata. 



Leaves rather placcid f inch wide, not 



narrowed at the base ••• ••• 4. F. malaccensis- 



Leaves h inch wide, narrowed at the base. 

 Bracts large, stiff, boat-shaped ... ... 5. F. lucens. 



Leaves 2 inch wide not narrowed at the 



base, unarmed. Bracts flat, lanceolate 6. F. montana. 

 BRACTS LEAF-LIKE, Leaves long linear wide 

 at base, unarmed. Fruit spike 2 



inches long ... 7. F. King tana. 



Leaves very long linear armed. Spikes 



several, very large^ •■• ... ••• 8. F. valid a. 



1. Fr. angustifolia, Bl. Eumphia I (1835) 159, t. 43. Stems 

 very slender 5 inch through, very long. Leaves narrowly linear acumin- 

 ate 9-10 inches long, g inch wide, base dilated, unarmed except a few 

 thorns at the tip. Male inflorescence. Bracts 4 ovate acuminate, to 

 ovate lanceolate £ to 1 inch long, i inch wide, tip armed with 3 lines 

 of minute spines. Spadices 4 umbellate slender cylindric 2 inch long. 

 Female spadices racemose rather distant 3 or 4. Bracts as in male 

 but a little longer. Spadices } inch long on a peduncle of equal length 

 cylindric £ inch through. Pistils oblong very small, stigmas 1 to 3. 

 Nativo name " Rotan Musang," " Akar Ular." 



Malacca : Merlimau (R. Derry), Bukit Bruang (l.)orry 1197). Tho 

 leaves in the female are nearly twice as broad as in the male. 



