48 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Spadix peduncle slender or globose. Spatlie usually narrow or de- 

 flexed, or broad. Flowers numerous densely crowded or whorled. 

 Hepals G tips incurved. Stamens 6, filaments flat. Anther cells 

 ellipsoid. Ovary 3 celled. Stigma small top of ovary flat. Ovules 

 1 in the inner angles of each cell anatropous. Berries 1-3 seeded, 

 fleshy. Seed exalbuminous. 



Species 20. Madagascar, Tropical Asia, Australia and Polynesia. 



Flower spike globose. 



Stipes of spadix short -^ 



Stipes of spadix long i 

 Flower spike cylindric. 

 Flowers whorled 

 Flowers not whorled dense. 



Spathe linear narrow. 



Sepals tips narrow. 



Leaves . . . . . . .... 4. P. Barherianus. 



Leaves broadly elliptic . . . . ..."). 7'. ellipticns. 



Sepals broadly triangular at tip . . fi. P. inaequnJis. 



Spathe oblong boat-shaped . . . . *i. /'. Inncefolius. 



Spathe ovate lanceolate 4 inches long . . 8. P. Kingii. 



Spatlie ovate acuminate . . . . 9. P. rjrandispatlia. 



1. r. SCANDENS, L. Sp. PI. 9G8. stem slender G to 10 feet 

 long. Leaves lanceolate acuminate to o\«ete acuminate 3 inches long 

 by 3-\ to 1 J inch M'ide, petiole obcuneate or spear-shaped 1 to 3 inches 

 long, by 1 to ^ wide at the top. Peduncles axillary ^ inch long with 

 several ovate acute bracts. Spathe ovate cuspidate boat-shaped -J 

 inch long green or ])urple. Si)adix with a stipes ^ inch long, head 

 of flowers globose -^ inch through, Bot. Peg. t. 133. Hook. Ic. 

 PI. i;5. Schott. Meletem. 1, 31. Aroid. 1. 22, t. 33. Prodr. 

 563. Roxb. Fl. Ind. IL 457. Kunth. Enum. II T. 65. Engl. Arac. 

 84. (Excl. var. B). Hook. fll. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 551. P. cxigui- 

 fonts, Schott. Aroid. I. 21. t. 41. Prodr. 5G1. P. fallax, Schott. 

 Prodr. 560. P. decipiens, Schott. Bonpl. 1859, p. 165. Prodr. 562. 

 P. Eoxhugliil, De Vr. Plant Jungh. I. 103. var. A. petiole narrow 

 long, blade lanceolate. 



Selangor: Kuala Lumpur Caves (Pidley 8167), (Curtis 2394). 



var. B. cognatiis, Engler. I.e. P. cognatus, Schott. Aroid. I. 

 22. t. 48. Prodr. 502. I'etiole broadly cuneate, blade ovate to ob- 

 long elliptic. 



Perak: Kuala Kangsa (Pidley 2953); Selama (Scortechini), 

 Kuala Dipang (King's Coll. 82M) ;" Tcnang Waterfall (Curtis 2853). 

 Dislrib. India, Siani, Borneo, Java, Sumatra. Native name " Juloh 



