Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 19 



base nude, male portion e_vlindric or clulAed. Stamens 2 to 4. 

 Female flowers few 1 or 2 celled. Stigma flat discoid ovules solitary 

 anatropous. Drupes fleshy 1 seeded. Seeds exalbuminous. 



Species about 20. Asiatic. 

 Stems creeping. " -* 



Leaves linear oblong base narrow . . 1. ^. Griffithii. 



Leaves ovate base broad . . . . 2. A. costatum. 



Stem erect. Spadix cylindric. 



Leaves linear oblong coriaceous large . , 3. ^4. ohlongifoliiim. 



Leaves thin oblong . . . . . . 4. 4. Schottianmn. 



Leaves narrow lanceolate linear . . . . 5. A. angusiifoJium. 



Stem erect. Spadix clubbed . . . . . . 6. /I. minus. 



1. A. Griffithii, Schott. Syn. 123. Ehizome creeping stout. 

 Leaves erect fleshy linear oblong obtuse 12-16 inches long 3-4 inchea 

 wide dull dark green, petiole 26 inches or more long. Peduncles from 

 the rhizome stout about 6 inches to a foot. Spathe boat-shaped cus- 

 pidate 3 inches long 1 inch across edges overlapping at the base light 

 green. Spadix about as long, male portion cylindric stout, 2^ inches 

 long. Ovaries 5, yellow base broad rounded, narrowed upwards. 

 Stigma discoid centre depressed. Fruit ovoid 1| inch long 1 incli 

 wide green, pericarp thick fleshy, seed solitary half inch through. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VL 528. A. palustre, Teysm. and Binn. 

 Naturl. Tijdschr. XXV. 305. Kurz. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XIV. 

 Pt II. 153. Aglaodorum Gri^ihii, Schott. Gen. 758. Prod. 306. 

 Engl. Arac. 443." 



Malacca (Grifflth). In Nipa swamps in the town suburljs (Eid- 

 I^y). Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. Probably common in other tidal 

 divers, but the leaves so closely resemble those of Crypincoryne ciliata 

 at a little distance that it is difficult to distinguish them. 



2. A. COSTATUM, X". E. Br. Gard. Chron. 1892, I. 426. Rhizome 

 creeping about 5 to 6 inches long. Leaves often crowded, petioles 

 3 or more inches long rather slender, sheathing blade coriaceous lan- 

 ceolate or ovate lanceolate acute with a broad rounded base 6 to 12 

 inches long, 3 inches wide, deep blackish green blotched with white, 

 rather coriaceous. Peduncle 3 inches long with sheathing leaves at 

 the base. Spathe 1 inch long oblong green, with a small mucro, 

 Spadix 1^ inch long base nude nearly | inch. Female flowers in 

 one whorl about 10, Ovary narowed upwards, stigma discoid much 

 wider. Male portion thick blunt 1 inch long ^ inch througli. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VL 531. 



Lankawi in woods near limestone rocks, Kwah (Curtis). Dis- 

 trib. Siam to Laos. 



