Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsiila. 47 



1| to 2 inches wide, dark olive green nerves prominent, petiole 21 

 inches long or shorter sheathing at the hase thorny. Peduncle 17 to 

 27 inches long, thorny at hase. Spathe linear or ovate acuminate 5 

 inches long, ^ to 1 inch wide purple. Spadix nude portion ^-1 inch 

 long, above cylindric obtuse 2 inches long in flowers, lower part white 

 apex purple. Fruiting spadix 6 inches long. Drupe globose red | 

 inch long. Seed globose. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. YI. 550. 



Jolior: Gunong Panti and Gunong Pulai (Eidlev) ; Perak (Scor- 

 techini), Larut Hills (Pidley), Eelau Tujoh (Wray 1812) ; Bindings: 

 Telok Sera (Ridley 7217). Local and not common in woods. Distrib. 

 Sumatra, Borneo. 



18. Cyrtosperma, Grit!. 



Large aquatics. Leaves hastate, long petioled. Peduncle long 

 erect. Spathe persistent ovate expanded. Spadix short dense flower- 

 ed, base "nude or not. Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 1 to 8 truncate 

 apex incurved. Stamens 4-8 filaments short. Anthers obovate ob- 

 long. Ovary 1 celled. Stigma pulvinate ovules 1 or more, semiana- 

 tropous, pendulous with long funicles. Berries crowded fleshy, seed 

 compressed crested. Albumen scanty. Embryo horse-shoe shaped. 



Species 10. African, Mala3'a, South America. 



C. LASioiDES, Griff. Itin. Xot. III. 119. Stem short and very 

 stout. Leaves hastate sagittate 20 inches wide and as long or less; 

 nerved stout curved, margin of lobes and midrib thorny, petiole 4 to 

 5 feet tall 1 inch through at the base thorny. Peduncle thorny 2-3 

 feet long. Spathe ovate aciwninate stiff 4 inches long 1^ inch wide, 

 outside brown purple with green lines shining, inside cream colour. 

 Spadix base ^ inch long nude, cylindric blunt 3 inches long pink. 

 Sepals spathulate truncate flat topped pink. Stamens filament broad 

 oblong thin flat. Anthers obovate elliptic ocreous opening by longi- 

 tudinal slits. Ovary base narrow, dilate upwards. Style short and 

 ))road. Drupe obcuneate green apex purple. Seed reniform with 4 

 crests of blunt processes. Griff. Notul. III. 150. Ic. PI. As. t. 169. 

 Schott. Gen. Ar. t. 84. Prod. 403. Engler. Arac. 270. Icones. 89. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 551. 



Singapore (Gaudichaud, Wallich 4447), Tanglin (Eidley 4605) ; 

 Johor: Sungei Tehran; Malacca (Griffith), A3^er Panas (Derry 298) ; 

 Pahang: Kuala Mahang (Ridley); Sungei Ujong; Perak: Chen- 

 derian (King's Coll. 5654), Goping (King's Coll. 4357); Penang: 

 Batu Kurau (Curtis 2988). Distrib. Borneo. Common in swamps 

 and marshes in low ground. Xative name " Gligli." It varies much 

 in size according to age. 



19. PoTHOs, Linn. 



Climbing herbs, branched and slender. Leaves distichous with a 

 sheathing petiole, often widely winged, coriaceous oblong or lanceolate. 



