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Juloh." The leaves ground to powder are applied to the hody in 

 small-pox, the stems cup up with camphor or smoked like tohacco 

 for asthma. 



2. P. MACROCEPHALUR, Scortcchini, in Flora Brit. Ind. 553. 

 A long slender creeper 60 to 80 feet long stouter than the preceding 

 species. Leaves dark green glossy, blade lanceolate to linear, lan- 

 ceolate 1^ to 3 inches long § to 4 inch wide, petiole 3 to 3 inches 

 long linear. Peduncle 1-1 f inch long, decurved. Bracts at base 

 several ovate ^ inch long and longer. Spathe ovate cuspidate ^ inch 

 long and over ^ inch wide dark greenish l)lack or pale green. Stipe 

 ^ inch long. Head globose or pyriform yellow ^ inch long. Sepals 

 oblong truncate. Stamens 6. Ovary top rounded flat, stigma very 

 small punctiform slightly elevated. Fruit (young) oblong bluntly 

 6 angled top truncate. 



Perak (Scort echini), Goping (King's Collector 4337, 6029); 

 Waterloo (Curtis 2895). Endemic. 



3. P. LATiFOLius, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 554. Stems 

 woody moderately stout 10 to 15 or more feet long. Leaves broadly 

 elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, cuspidate base rounded or cuneate 4 to 8 

 inches long 1^-2^ inch wide intramarginal vein near the edge, 

 lateral veins slender close, veinlets reticulate, petiole 2 to 4 inches 

 long winged to the short ^ inch knee. Peduncle | to 2 inches long 

 deflexed or sigmoid. Spathe linear 1-1^ inch long pale green. Spa- 

 dix 3 to 6 inches long stipitate. Flowers in whorls close or rather 

 distant, brown. Sepals ovate obtuse. Stamens 6, filaments broad 

 a little longer than the pistil. Top of pistil rounded stigma small 

 punctate. Drupe oblong |-f inch long, red. P. Maingoyii, Hook, 

 fil. I.e. P. Curtisii, Hook. fil. I.e. P. Kunstleri, Hook. fil. I.e. 



Singapore: Bukit Mandai (Ridley 6535), Kranji (5108); 



Malacca (Maingay) ; Selangor: Kuala Lumpur, Pahang Track 

 (Piidley) ; Bindings: Lumut (Eidley 7248); Perak: Larut Hills 



8-2000' feet elevation (Wray 3903), (King's Coll. 3887, 8493, 2754), 

 (Curtis 2987) ; Sunkei (King's Coll. 3012) ; Gunong Keledang 

 (Pidley 9696); Penang: Batu Feringhi (Curtis 808). Distrib. 



Malaya. " Akar Lidali Badak." Climbing on trees. 



I have examined all the types of the above species, and am quite 

 unable to separate them. The leaves vary a good deal in size in 

 different parts of the plant. The spadix seems to lengthen as it 

 developes so that the flowers appear to ))e more distant in fully 

 developed spadices than in younger ones. 



4. P. Baeberiaxus, Schott. Aroid. 24. t. 53. Prodr. 573. Stems 

 slender rather stiff. Leaves lanceolate cuspidate, or oblong ovate 

 lanceolate acuminate base rounded 5 inches long by one wide thinly 



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