Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 13 



pale red brown spotted purplish bi'owii, limb ovate oblong siibereet 

 acute 2 inches across basal marquis revolute round the mouth of the 

 infundibular tube. Spadix 3^ inch ](mg, appendix fusiformly conic 

 2 inches long. Male inflorescence -i inch long. Stamens scattered 

 xerj small. Female portion as long, pistils sessile globose. Style 

 very short. Stigma capitate. 



Perak: Larut Hills (Wray 111, Kunstler). Endemic. 



^ 3. A. MINOR, Ridley Journ. lioy. As. Soe. S. Br. Vol. XLI. p. 

 46. Tuber 1 inch through. Leaf petiole D inches long slender, 

 lamina 3 l)ranched, each liranchcd again, leailets numerous tliin green 

 (red when young) lanceolate acuminate inae(iuilate]-al 3 inches long 

 by 1 wide nerves numerous close joining an inner uuirginal one. 

 Peduncle 8 inches to a foot lojig with loose brown sbeaths at the base 

 the largest truncate 4 inches long. S])alhe ;5 to 4 inches long con- 

 volute at the base, lanceolate acuminate 1-li inch across. Spadix 3 

 inches long, apendix cylindric conic 1 incli. Male portion as long 

 as the appendix, flowers very numerous crowded. Feuudes few, style 

 very short. 



Perak: Larut Hills (Eidley) ; Province Wellesley : Tasek Gelu- 

 gur. Endemic. 



3. A. MINOR, Eidley Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. A^ol. XLI. p. 

 inches across or more. Leaf 2 to 6 feet petiole stout green marbled 

 with white, lamina large and spreading leaflets 4 to 8 on each In-anch 

 bases decurrent lanceolate caudate 5 inches long by 2 wide nerves 

 numerous conspicuous joining an intranuirginal one. Peduncle 3 

 inches long stout mottled like the leaf petiole, with very large pink 

 sheaths. Spathe tiibe 2-3 inches long broad, base pinkish outside, 

 lemon yellow above the deep purple inside, limb broadly ovate blunt 

 8 inches across lemon yellow. Spadix barely or not longer, appendix 

 2 inches long and 1^ inch wide greyish white, male portion an inch 

 long. Stamens crowded numerous white, pollen yellow. Female 

 flowers in 3 or 4 spirals rather distant, with a cushion-like ovary, a 

 stout style, and bilol)ed stigma all crimson, base of spadix nude. 

 Drupes about I inch long elliptic red, seed hard. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Eidley); Selangor Caves at Kuala 

 Lumpur; Pahang: Pulau Manis, Pahang Elver; Perak: Larut (King's 

 Coll. 2995); Dindings : Gunong Tungul (iiidley T245) ; Penang: 

 Penara Bukit, Government Hill (Curtis), (Eidley 7246). Distrib. 

 Sumatra. 



In damp woods and tbickets. " Loki '' of the Malays. This 

 chiefly differs from ^1. oiiropln/l/us, Prain in the colour of the spathe. 

 I once had a specimen in which the appendage was quite suppressed. 



