30 "Moier'mh for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



5 to T pairs 5 to 7 inches long l)y 1-2 wide deep green with a velvety 

 gloss, petiole 6 inches long. Peduncles slender 4 inches long. Spathe 

 large li inch long, broad oblong cuspidate dark green. Spadix white 

 base not nude. Male portion rather longer than the female. Ovaries 

 globose. Stigma small discoid, about G series. 



Perak (Scortechini), Ulu Bubong in dense bamboo forests 400- 

 600 feet elevation (King's Coll. 10(i();5). Endemic. 



21. H. MIXTA, Pidl. Journ. Bot. 1902, p. 3G. Ehizome thick. 

 Leaves elliptic or oblanceolate base cuneate apex acuminate rather 

 thin textured 9 inches long, 3 inches wide, prominent nerves numerous 

 about 5 pairs rather more so petiole 6 inches long broadly sheathing 

 for \ of its length. Spadices very many about 11 peduncles slender 

 3 inches long. fSpathes oblong shortly cuspidate '-\ to 1 inch long. 

 Spadices shorter. Male portion cylindric acute 3 times as long as the 

 female witii abortive female flowers mixed with the males to the 

 top. Females numerous. Ovules numerous. 



Pahang: Tahan River woods (Ridley). 



Excluded Species. 



IT. sinqnporensis, Eegel. Ind. Sem. Hort, Petrop. (1869), 18. 

 Garten. Flora 1870, 53. Hook. til. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 537. " Sing- 

 apore." The plant thus labelled at Kew is a species which has long 

 been cultivated in gardens at Singapore, the history of which is not 

 known. It is not however a native of the peninsula as far as is 

 known, but is traditionally stated to have originally been obtained 

 from Calcutta. It differs however from liegel's description in having 

 the petioles and spathes completely red. 



11. ScHisMATOGLOTTTS, Zoll. and Mor. 



Herbs with a short rarely elongate stem. Leaves herbaceous ovate 

 or lanceolate, often cordate, petiole slieathing shortly. Spathe cylin- 

 dric constricted above the female inflorescence upper half deciduous. 

 Spadix included, male portion terminal usually clubbed, or terminal 

 portion sterile of oblong neutral flowcis. Stamens 2 or 3. Anthers 

 truncate, prismatic. Female jiortion sej^ai-ated from male by a bare 

 portion, or abortive flowers. JMslils flask-slia])ed 1 celled. Stigma 

 discoid. Ovules many. 



Species 15. Malaya and Pegu. 



Leaves distinctly cordate at base. 



Spadix clubbed at the top, free to base . . 1. S. cahjpirata. 



Spadix apex conic naruow, free to base . . 2. »S'. uniinin. 



Spadix adnate to spathe for half its lengths. S. minor. 



