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Spadix If inch long, appendage cylindric obtuse, slender f inch long, 

 male portion ^ inch long. Female flowers in three rows. Drupe red 

 i inch long seeds globose. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 527. A. 

 pcral-euse, Hemsl. Journ. Bot. 1887, 205. 



Selangor: Bukit Hitam (Ivelsall) ; Perak: Larut Hills (Wray, 

 Eidlcy, etc.). Distrib. Borneo. On rocks in forests, alt. 2-3000 feet. 



3. A. DEXUDATA, Engl. Arac. 507. Stem about 2 inches long 

 stout. Leaves 1 to three, petiole 15 to 24 inches long ^ inch through 

 marbled transversely with grey, lamina hastate (entire in seedlings) 

 lobes divaricate blunt or subacute over a foot long dark green with 

 paler veins, 9 inches wide. Spadiees 1 to several, peduncle 6-12 inches 

 long marl)lcd rather slender enclosed in thin marbled grey sheaths. 

 Spathe 4-6 inches long, tube short 1-1^ inch long swollen, lamina ob- 

 long cuspidate 5 inches long 1 inch wide at length reflexed pale green 

 or white. Sparlix 3^-4 inches long, appendage cylindric slender 

 1^ inch long pale ochre or orange. Male portion h inch long white. 

 Flowers oblong flat-topped crenulate stamens 6 ; neuter portion ^ inch, 

 flowers hexagonal white or orange. Female portion cone-shaped ^ 

 inch long, ovaries short subglobose. Stigma 4-liorned largo fleshy 

 sessile, base of spadix nude. Fruit globose red 1 to 3 seeded. Seeds 

 black subglobose flattened at both ends ^ inch long. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. 525. A. singaporensis, Linden Garten. Flora XIV. 

 252. A. Curtisii, Hemsley Kew Bulletin 1894, 347. 



Singapore very common; Johor: Bukit Murdom (Kelsall), Pulau 

 Dayong (Feilding) ; Pahang: Pekan, Kota Glanggi (Eidley) ; Perak: 

 Bindings at Lumut; Malacca (Maingay), Pulau Besar (Grifiith), 

 Ayer Bumban (Eidley) ; Lankawi Islands (Curtis). Distrib. Lingga, 

 Borneo. 



This species was based on a leaf collected in Singapore by Gaudi- 

 chaud which was doubtless this very common plant, the only species 

 occuring in tlie low country. A. longiloha, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 

 207, an insufficiently described plant from Zollinger's Collection 

 is prol)ably this, but Hallier, Bull. Herb. Boissier VI. 1898, 609, 

 considers that to be A. Lowii var. VeitcJiii. There is no great 

 difficulty in distinguishing these two plants if the specimen are good 

 enough. It is only a question of what Miquel intended by his descrip- 

 tion. Hemsley's A. Curtisii, from Lankawi is quite indistinguishable 

 from the common form. The " Keladi Eimau " or " Keladi Ular," 

 so called from its mottled stem recalling a tiger skin or a snake skin is 

 common over the whole Peninsula in the low country and does not 

 really vary much even in foliage unless very young and very old leaves 

 are compared. The early leaves of seedlings are quite entire and 

 peltate just like those of A. Bercarii, Engl. A very handsome form 

 with deep purple underside of the leaf and otherwise much resembling 

 A. Lowii was brought by Mr. Macbado from Bukit Telega, Pahang. 



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