Materials for a Flora of the, Malayan Peninsula. 5 



XativG name " Ati-Ati Paya." In forests streams. The leaves 

 ground up are applied to the head in native medicine for headache. 



3. C. ruPUREA, Eidl. Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 41, p. 

 44. Stems creeping stoloniferous. . Leaves ovate or elliptic ovate 

 l)ase broad 3 inches long by 1| inch wide petioles 4 inches long. 

 Peduncle short about ^ inch long. Spathe 3 or more inches long 

 tube twisted 5 inch long through white,' limb ovate caudate ^-1 inch 

 long ^ inch wide deep purple brown with a yellow mouth pustular, 

 tail ^ inch long. Valve oblong truncate pale yellow. Female flowers 

 {) to 8 connate in a circle. Styles very short, stigmas discoid, neuters 

 above the pistils 5 or more, bare portion of spadix slender. Male 

 flowers few yellow obcuneate. Appendix small elliptic clubl)ed. C. 

 Griffith a,. Hook. fil. Bot. Mag. TTID, not of Schott. 



Johor: Kota Tinggi (Eidley 4214). This is closely allied to C. 

 (triffiihii but differs in its more numerous pistils, and smaller appendix 

 while the tube of the spathe is very much longer. Endemic. 



4. C. roxTEDERiAEFOLiA, Schott. Micj. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 

 I. 123. Stem as in the last species. Leaves ovate cordate with 

 distinct auricles, margins undulate, 2 inches long by 1^ inch wide, 

 ])etioles 3 inches long, sheathing for ^ of the length. Scapes very 

 short. Spathe tube 4 inches long rather stout dilate at base, limb 

 ovate lanceolate 1^ inch long half an inch wide with a tail 5 inches 

 long deep purple. Fruit obconic on short scapes, pistils 5. Seeds 

 elongate cylindric longitudinally ribbed. Engler. Arac. No. 24. 

 Monogr. p. 027. 



Johor: Between Johor Town and Gunong Pulai (Pidley's Coll. 

 3T21). Pare. In slow running streams. Distrib. Sumatra. 



5. C. (iuiFFiTHii, Schott. Syn. Aroid. I. Prodr. Syst. Aroid. 14. 

 Stem creeping and surculose. Leaves ovate undulate floating dark 

 olive above pink beneath 2 inches long 1^ wide, petioles 4 to 5 inches 

 long. Scape about 1 inch long white. Spathe tube cylindric base 

 dilate 1| inch long white, limb ovate cuspidate papillose dark red. 

 Spadix sho'.t. Female portion conic, ovaries connate pustular 6. 

 Styles short and thick. Stigmas elliptic. Barren portion slender. 

 Male flowers oblong. Capsule conic cordate 6 lobed pink with per- 

 sistent styles I inch long. Engler. Arac. 631. IST. E. Br. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XVIII. 244. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 493. 

 Cryptncoryne, sp. Griff. Notul. III. 139. Ic. PI. As. t. 173, f. 3. 



Singapore : Tanglin, Kranji, Mandai, Chan Chu Kang (Eidley 

 3936) : Johor: Ulu Batu Pahat (Kelsall) ; Malacca: Tabong (Grif- 

 fith), Bukit Sadanen (Derry 348). In slow streams in dense jungle. 

 The spathe submerged up to the limb. Endemic. 



