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its length, limb but little dilated acuminate. Spadix sessile, male 

 portion cylindric blunt twice as long as the rest of the spadix, flowers 

 oblong white, below this a narrow portion of oblong neuters. Female 

 portion short -J inch long. Ovaries oblong with a flat stigma. *S'. 

 hrevipes, Hook. fil. I.e. p. 538. 



Johor: Gunong Pulai (Herb. H. B, Singap.) ; Selangor: Eawang, 

 Ginting Bidai (Ridley 76G9) ; Pahang: Tahan Kiver (Eidley) ; Perak 

 (Scortechini l-iSb), Bujong Malacca (Eidley). Endemic. 



Banks in woods. A'ery near Sch. crispata, Hook. fil. Bot. Mag. 

 (6576) and perhaps only a variety but the spathe is considerably 

 larger in that, S. hrevipes is apparently a young plant. The specimen 

 (Scortecliini 623a) in Herb. Kew is very bad, and only in fruit. The 

 drawing shows a slight difference, the plant being probably too young. 



5. S. Wallichii, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. A^I. 537. Stem short. 

 Leaves several lanceolate acuminate with a long point bright green 

 base oblique broad and rounded or narrowed rarely shortly bilobed 6 

 to 9 inches long, 1 to 3 inches wide, nerves about 12 pairs, petiole 2 

 to 9 inches long sheathing half way. Peduncle 3 to 5 indies long. 

 Spathe 3 inches long, convolute portion green 1 inch, limb broad with 

 a long point white. Spadix 2-24 inches long, rather slender. Barren 

 portion cylindric blunt, ^ inch long. Male portion f inch long. 

 Female as long or longer base nude, pistils very numerous and small. 



Singapore : Bukit Timah (Eidley 6319), (Wallich 8962) ; Johor; 

 Malacca: Bukit Saclanen (Derry 345) ; Sungei Ujong: Bukit Tumiang 

 (Herb. H. B. Singap.); Selangor: Bukit Berjuntai (Eidley 7668); 

 Perak: Goping (King's Coll. 969), Ulu Bubong (King's Coll. 10255), 

 Tapa (Wray 830), Province Wellesley, Kubang Ulu (Curtis) ; Kelan- 

 tan: Kwala Lipis (Dr. Gimlette). 



var. fasciata. Leaf deep blackish green with a grey feather on 

 each side of the midrib, leaf more coriaceous. 



Selangor: Pahang Track (Eidley). 



The var. oblongata, Hook. fil. has a more rounded base to the 

 leaf, than some of the other forms, but it grows with them. Wallich's 

 original specimen has a grey central feather as has according to the 

 label Wray's Tapa plant. This form also occurs on Bukit Timah and 

 in Selangor. 



6. S. BREvicusPis, Hook. fil. l.c.e. Stem creeping and rooting 

 4 inches long or more. Leaves rather distant lanceolate to ovate 

 lanceolate cuspidate base rounded, rather thin textured, nerves curved 

 ascending joining an intramarginal vein, 4 to 6 inches long 2^ inches 

 wide, petiole 44 to 8 inches long midrib on back of the blade and 

 other nerves often finely scurfy, and upper surface often minutely 

 pustular. Peduncle slender an inch long. Spathe narrow 2 inches 



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