THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE, 167 
beneath 25 feet long and 5 inches wide with a petiole one 
foot long. Spikes 2 inches long, bracts stiff oblong obtuse 
green, with the points recurved, something like the spike 
of a curcuma. Flowers ocre yellow 2 inches across. 
Sepals lanceolate acute petals shorter and blunter, Fruit 
with beak one inch greenish white. Seeds few black 
about half as big as those of C. latifolia Dry. Not rare, 
in long grass and secondary growth. Bukit Timah, 
Tanglin, Chua Chu Kang. 
Crinum asiaticum L. “ Bakung.” The common white sea shore 
Cravum, C. pedunculatum Br. is said to differ in the long- 
pedicelled flowers and elongate root stock. I have only 
seen one species in Singapore and Penang, and that has 
long pedicelled flowers and no root stock, ‘The flowers 
open about 6 p.m. and are sweet scented, and very at- 
tractive to hawk moths. Sea coasts, Kranji, Selitar, Pulau 
Ubin. 
Eurycles sylvestris Salisb. Is probably native here. It occurs 
in the sea sand at Changi, Bajau, etc., and is often culti- 
vated. 
TACCACER, 
Tacea cristata Jack. Common in woods, Bukit Timah, etc. 
DIOSCOREACEA. 
Dioscorea demona Roxb. ‘ Gadung.” A fairly large climber 
with prickly glaucous stems. The tubers sliced and 
washed in running water are eaten, but unless so-washed 
are stated to be poisonous. Common in villages; I have 
never seen it elsewhere. | 
D, pyrifolia Kunth. Common, Bukit Timah, Chan Chu Kang, 
Bukit Mandai, Sungei Pandan. 
D. oppositifolia LL. Garden jungle, Selitar, Bukit Mandai Road. 
D. laurifolia Wall. Woods and edges of jungles, common, 
Tanglin, Sungei Morai, Bukit Timah, Changi. 
