Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsida. 45 



Perak: no locality given (Scortechini). The specimen at Kew 

 looks not Tinlike the cultivated plant known as Pathos aurea but I have 

 never seen flowers of this. 



1-1. E. KoRTPiALSiT, Schott. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 1^9. Stem 

 20 to 30 feet long ^ inch through densely crinite. Leaves large 

 pinnatisect coriaceous deep green 18-24 inches long hy 6-8 inches wide 

 lobes oblong acuminate falcate about 9 pairs, lowest ones small 3 inches 

 long by ^ inch wide, upper ones 5 inches long by 2 inches wide, reti- 

 culating nerves very prominent when dry. Petiole 9 inches long. 

 Peduncles 2 to 9 inches long very stout. Spathes coriaceous numerous 

 boat-shaped cylindric with a short stout Iwak 6 to 8 inches long ^ to 



1 inch through green edge cream colour. Spadix 2 to 6 inches long 

 cylindric ^ inch through yellow. Flowers rounded small hexagonal 

 filaments "rather long. Anthers oblong. Stigma linear. Fruit ^ 

 inch across, top rounded and flat. Seeds 4 flattened ovoid brown. 

 Engler. Arac. 247. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. YI. 548. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah not rare; Johor: Pulau Tinggi (Feild- 

 ing) ; Perak: Larut Hills (King's Collector 6893) ; Penang: Govern- 

 ment Hill (Maingay). Distrib. Java. Climbing high on trees, 



15. E. HuEGELiAXA, Schott. Bonplandia. V. 45. Prodr. 384. 

 Stem 20 to 30 feet long stout ^ to f inch through. Leaves in young 

 plants lanceolate falcate distichous sessile appressed to the trunk of 

 a tree often overlapping 2 to 7 inches long, ^ inch to 3 inches wide; 

 in older plants ovate acuminate with a refuse base and short petiole 3 

 inches long; in adult deeply pinnatifid or pinnatisect often perforate, 

 lobes 5 to 14 oldong truncate or cuspidate or upper angle acute, 8-15 

 inches long, 7 to 12 inches wide, peiole 1 to 13 inches long geniculate 

 above sheathing at base only. Peduncles several 3 inches long rather 

 slender. Spathe long persistent, thick beaked 1-3 inches long -^-l^ 

 inch wide, spreading. Spadix 1-1^ inch long, nude portion ^ inch 

 long. Perianth none. Stamens 6, filaments short triangular, an- 

 thers 2 celled cells divaricate at base. Ovary top flat, stigma discoid, 



2 celled. Fruit i inch across white 2 celled with a seed in each cell. 

 Anadendnim medium, Schott. Bonplandia. V. 45. Prodr. 392. Scln- 

 dapsus mediiis, Zoll. and Mor. Syst. Verz. n. 82. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 186. Epipremniim medium, Engl. Arac. 250. Pothos pinnatus, 

 Wall. Cat. 4438. 



Singapore (\Yaltich 4438), Bukit Timah, Garden Jungle (Eidley 

 6373) ; Johor: Gunong Panti ; Sungei Ujong; Selangor : Bukit Kudah 

 (Eidley); Penang: Batu Feringhi (Curtis 1923); Perak (Scorte- 

 chini, King's Collector). Distrib. Java, Philippines, Borneo. Native 

 name " Sakat Gajah." The form with falcate distichous nearly sessile 

 leaves, is the Pothos celaticaulis of Gardens. 



