23-t Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



cusp shortly thorny. Spikes 3, vory slender, l\ inch long loss than | 

 inch through, base about $ inch wide. Female bracts as in male. 

 Spikes 3 almost umbellate 1$ to 2 inches long, cylindric blunt, fleshy 

 I an inch through when dry. Stigmas closely approximated 4 to 8. 

 F. Gaudichaudii Hook. fil. El. Brit. Ind. I.e. 488. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Bidley 3703), Bukit Mandai (4G18), 

 Kranji ; Negri Sembilan : Seremban (Egerton) ; Perak : Larut (King's 

 Coll. 4003, 4091, 4194, 7578), Thaiping (8523). This is the plant 

 commonly recorded as F. Gaudichaudii, for the Malay peninsula. It 

 seems however distinct. 



G. F. Montana, n. sp. Stein g inch through. Leaves rather distant 

 G-7 inches long, i inch wide, finely ribbod when dry, linear acuminate 

 unarmed except for a few short thorns on the tip, sheathing portion 

 edged with a broad smooth brittle margin. Male inflorescence, bracts 

 lanceolate fiat 2£ inches long or less i inch wide acuminate, edges 

 armed with short upcurved thorns. Spadicos 3, vory slender, l\ inch 

 long, nude portion & of the length angled with short hair-like processes 

 along the angles. Female spadicos 3-4, cylindric obtuse 1- 1 h inch long, 

 j-;'i inch through, peduncles very short, j- inch long, umbelled, angular 

 with hair-like processes on the angles. Drupes fleshy free portion 

 rounded with 4 to G stigmas. 



Selangor: Bukit Hitam (Bidlov 7G57) ; Perak: Thaiping Hills 

 Ridley 5194), (King's Coll. 2619). Endemic. 



7. F. Kingiana, n. sp. Stem i\j inch through. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, linear acuminate 8 inches long, 5 inch wide, unarmed except 

 for some pale thorns at the base and some very obscure ones at the tip, 

 pale when dry with the midrib prominent on both sides, sheathing 

 portion long, over an inch with a narrow papery edge, unarmed. Male 

 flowers not seen. Spathes of female leaf-like but shorter, lancoolate 

 acuminate thorny along the edge. Spadicos 1 to 2, oblong 4 to U 

 inches long on a peduncle rather stout and curved with ovate sheaths, 

 peduncle (nude portion of spike) 1 inch long, terete. Pistils in front 

 fleshy only at the base, free portion conic angle;!, stigmata 2-3 coniform. 



Perak: Goping (King's Collector 4G54, 1056) "40 to GO feet long. 

 I ioaves glossy light green. Fruit dark green. Flowers yellow. Bracts 

 yellowish." Endemic'. 



8. F. VALIDA, n. sp. A very stout climber 20 or 30 feet long, I 

 inch through. Leaves long linear acuminate darkgreen 21 inches lone. 

 \ to Li inch wide, sheath large armed at the top with thorns, cd.ee 

 thorny. Male inflorescence not seen. Female, bracts leal lite not 

 coloured distinctively. Spikes 1 to 3, umbellate on a. stout cylindric 

 peduncle. I -j inch in flower to 4 inches long, 3 inch through in fruit, 

 pedicels stout cylindric 2 inches long. Style conic angled free, Stig 

 mas cj ether 2-4. 



