' Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 37 



It is know to the Malays as " Akar Asam Tcbing Darat." " Akar 

 Meroyau Sunbang '' and " Siigimja." The leaves are eaten in curries 

 and the roots used in native medicine. Abundant in woods in the low 

 countrj'', climbing on small trees low down. Distril?. Malay Islands. 



3. A. MARGINATUM, Scliott. in Ocstr. Bot. Wochenbl. 1857, 117. 

 Prodr. 390. Stem Avoody ^ inch through, with numerous woolly roots. 

 Leaves crowded or distant ovate to lanceolate inaequilateral, acute 

 base broad or acuminate, nerves about 16 pairs, 5-9 inches long 3-4 

 M'ide, petiole 3 to 9 inches long broadly winged almost to the top. 

 Spathes numerous, peduncles 3 inches long rather slender. Spathcs 

 1-| inch long thick, cuspcd. vSpadix cylindric an inch long, nude 

 base l inch. Perianth cupular. Stamens G. Anthers oblong lila- 

 uicnt short and broad, ovary. Drupe oblong truncate red } inch long. 

 Engler. Arac. 96. Hook. til'. I.e. 540. 



Pahang: Tahan Eiver, Pulau Tijau (Pidley 2396); Selangor : 

 Kuala Lumpur Caves, Ginting Bidai (Eidley) ; Pcrak (Seortechini, 

 King's Coll.) ; Penang (Porter in Wall. Cat. 1443. Pothos margina- 

 tus). Distrib. Sumatra. 



14. SCINDAPSUS. 



Climbing or creeping ^ shrubby plants. Leaves ovate or lanceo- 

 late, petioled, petiole usually strongly winged. Spathe boat-shaped 

 deciduous. Spadix covered with liowers to the base. Flowers bisex- 

 ual with no perianth. Stamens 6, filament short or moderately long 

 oblong flat anthers ovate. Pistils crowded top more or less hexagonal 

 Stigma small pulvinate. 0\"aries unilocular with 1 rarely more ovules, 

 one-seeded. 



Species about 10. India, Mala\'a and Australasian. 



This genus only differs from Iiaphidophora in its single celled 

 ovary and single rather large seed. 



Leaves ovate cordate, mottled . , . , . . 1. S. pitta. 



Leaves ovate not cordate dark green . . . . 2. S. tScoriccliinii. 



Leaves oblong lanceolate broadly winged to the 

 knee. 



Spadix 1| inch long 

 ' Spadix 4 to 6 inches long . . 

 Leaves very coriaceous oblong or lanceolate, 

 narrowly winged for ^ the length of the 

 petiole . . 



1. S. ncTA, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 1844, p. 58. Stem very 

 long slender about 20 feet long. Leaves (young) ovate orbicular, or 

 ovate falcate cordate green blotched with while, 3 inches long by 2 

 inches wide, petiole slender 1^^ inch long; (adult) lanceolate falcate 



