12 ]\fnfrrinlf! for a Flora of ilic 'Malayan Peninsula. 



Sj)ailu' and spadix jJi'odiUTd al'U'r tlio fall of tlie loaf, pcduiieled. 

 Spathe luhe convolute linil) usually broad. Spadix tube convolute 

 limb usually broad. Spadix witli a large conic or cylindric appendix. 

 Male and female flowers crowded, neuters 0. Anthers 3-4, sessile 

 cells oblong with apical pores. Ovaries globose or flattened. Style 

 short or long. Stigma 2 to 4 lobed or entire. Berries elliptic or 

 subglobose. Seeds exalbuminous. 



Species about 40. Tropics of the whole world. 



Style much longer than the ovary. 



Appendix large cone-shaped . . . , 1. .4. malaccensis. 



Style short. 

 Spadix little longer than spalhc. 



Appendix fusiform . . . . . . 2. A. sparsifiorus. 



Appendix cylindric . . . . . . 3. A. minor. 



Sj)adix much longer. 



Appendix conic. 



Spathe yellow ovaries discoid . . . . 4. .4. Prainii. 



Spatht flesh colour, ovaries flask-shaped o. A. carnea. 



Ap})eu lix long cylindric. 



Poduncle 13 inches long, leaf 5 lobed 6. .1. Itacmatospadix. 



Peduncle 2-3 feet, leaf pinnatisect . . T. .4. variabilis. 



1. A. :\rALAcrEXSis, Eidley Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 

 XLI. p. 4(i. Tuber 4 inches through hemispheric top depressed. 

 Leaves not seen. l*eduncle 7 inches tall rough. Spathe tube wide 

 trumpet-shaped, 3 'inches long, limb bi-oad rounded 6 inches long 

 and as wide. Spadix longer, ap})endage fusiform acuminate G inches 

 long rugose, hollow loose textured and iibrous within, male portion 1 

 inch long, anthers crowded oblong. Female portion 2\ inches long, 

 flowers numerous, ovaries ovoid, style ] inch long. 



Malacca: l^anchur ((joodenough 181.j). Endemic. 



This differs from .4. rc.r, Pi'ain in the longer ])eduncle, and 

 longer nai-rower appendix, i have not certainly seen the foliage, but 

 have several times met with leaves resendjling those of .4. rev with 

 a green scabrid ))etiole. A very large s])ike of fruit over a foot long 

 with l)en"ies i inch long collccled by llervey on l>ukit I'nyong in 

 Malacca may be this. 



2. A. si'AitsiFUUsrs, Hook. (il. VI. I)i-il. hid. \'i. ~)^^). Tuber 

 orange-shaped. Leaf bulbiferous at the to[) of the petiole grei'U 

 shaded red and bi'own, "leaflets T, shoi'tly pi'tiolate, oblanceolalc 

 acuminate (i to S inches long H inch wide, peduncle 1-2-^ inthes long, 

 sheaths longci- linear. Spathe I-") inches long, tube U inch long 



