Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 7 



Leaves pedatisect. 



Lim!) of spathe very large longer than tube 5. A. Wrayi. 

 Limb of spathe shorter than tube . . . . G. A. Scortechinii. 



1. A. EoxBDRGHii, Kunth. Enum. IL 18. Leaves 1 or 2 en- 

 closed with the scape in a sheath 2 inches long, petiole tapering up- 

 wards 8 inches long grey marbled transversely with red, leaflets ovate 

 acuminate light green, 5 inches long 2| inch wide, petiolules of side 

 leaflets j inch long, of terminal leaflet, ^ inch. Peduncle 7 inches 

 long slender mottled pink. Spathe tube 1 inch long dull pink lamina 

 ovate acuminate curved yellowish green 1 inch Jong ^ inch wide. 

 Spadix short filiform 1^ inch long appendix acuminate £ inch long 

 base dark green appendage yellowish, anthers 4 to 5 in a cluster, 

 scattered. Fruit spike 2 inches long. Schott. Syn. Aroid. 27. Prodr. 

 33. Hook. fil. PL Brit. Ind. VI. 497 A. cuspidatum, Engler Arac. 

 536. Arum mspidaium, Roxb. PI. Ind. III. 506. Wight. Icones t. 

 784. 



Selangor: Kuala Lumpur Caves (Ridley); Pahang: Kota 

 Glanggi Caves; Perak (Scortechini) ; Penang (Roxburgh), Govern- 

 ment Hill (Curtis 1882) ; Perak (Scortechini) ; Lankawi Islands 

 (Curtis). Distiib. Java. On rocks and banks. 



2. A. KuNSTLERi, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 497. Tuber 

 subglobose, stem 5 inches long covered with sheaths. Leaves solitary 

 trifoliate, petiole graceful 7-10 inches long green mottled red, leaflets 

 ovate lanceolate acuminate base narrowed thin inaequilateral, nerves 

 about 10 pairs, 4^ inches long, 2 inches wide petiolules of side leaflets 

 ^ inch long of central one \ inch. Peduncle 6 to 7 inches long 

 mottled grey lamina narrow elongate lanceolate acuminate green with 

 rhii-ker streaks, contracted at the base. Male spadix very slender, 

 appendage very slender. Flowers scattered. Anthers ovoid, 1, 2, or 



4 together very small madder pink, with one or two pink processes 

 (neutral flowers) at the base of the appendage. Female flowers pis- 

 tils numerous hemispheric gi'een. Style semiglobose. Fruit spike 

 1 to 2 inches long. 



Perak (Kunstler), 'J'aiping (Derry) ; Penang (King's Coll. 

 1653), Penara Bukit (Ridley 7246), Government Hill (Curtis 2887). 

 Endemic, or rocks and banks. A more slender plant, with smaller 

 leaves, and rather different in colour from the last, but possibly only 

 forms of one species. 



3. A. AXOMALUM, Hemsl. Journ. Bot. 1887, 205. Tuber elongate 

 shortly rhizomatous. Leaf 1 or 2, 18 inches tall trifoliate, petiole 

 slender a foot long, leaflets ovate acuminate cuspidate inaequilateral, 



5 inches long, 2 inches wide rather fleshy, petiolules \ to ^ inch long. 

 Scapes 8 inches long, base sheathed. Spathe 2 inches long tube 



