104 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Lumut (Eidlcy 10317). Distrib. Native name '' Mengkuang Tc- 

 dong," " Mcngkuang Liibo." Used for making mats and baskets. 

 Inhabits dense forests (not swamps). The lowest bract below the 

 inflorescence is often lanceolate, and in one s])ccimen from the Din- 

 dings there is tubular sheath with a lanceolate limb -} way up the scape 

 2\ inches long. 



2. M. KuRzii, Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 681. Large tufted 

 plant with a thick rhizome. Leaves 4 feet long, |-1 inch wide long 

 acuminate, edges and keel very rough, scabrid. Scapes -4-18 inches 

 long stout smooth. Spikes 1-15 in a head one inch across, cylindric 

 acuminate ^ inch long brown. Bracteoles ovate obtuse strongly 

 ribbed. Squamellac rather longer outer ones strongly ciliate. Nut 

 white narrowed at the base, beaked above' ellipsoid (not ripe). 



Malacca (Griffith 6356); Perak : Larut Hills (Curtis), (Eidley 

 11425); Penang: (government Hill (Maingay), (King), Tanjong 

 Bunga (1820), Balik Pulau (Ridley 9410, 0339). Endemic. In 

 forests at 1,000 feet alt. 



3. M. LONGISPICA, Pidl. Journ. Poy. As. Soc. S. Br. XLIV. p. 

 205. Large tufted plant. Leaves linear 5 feet long 1 inch wide, 

 gradually acuminate margins with close pale thorns. Scape stout 

 over a foot tall with a head of 4 to 8 cylindric spikes. Bracts ovate 

 acute ribbed § inch long. Spikes l-j inch long ^ inch through 

 cylindric. Bracteoles ovate obtuse ribbed down the back. S(|ua- 

 mellae -| inch long, fringed. Style trifid slender. Nut trigono- 

 globose cndocarp hard black, cctocarp separable green. 



Perak: Larut Hills (Kidley 11^24) at an elevation of about 

 2,000 feet alt. Endemic. Allied to M. Kiirzii but distinct in its 

 large cylindric spikes, and stout scape. I am inhabited to Mr. Clarke 

 for its examination and notes on this species. 



4. M. VALiDA, Eidl. l.c.c. Phizome stout woody § inch thick. 

 Leaves numerous, linear acuminate 2i- feet long f inch wide edges 

 roughly thorny point very long and slender, base of leaves shining 

 dark brown. Scapes stout 4i indies long witli numerous slicaths at 

 the base. Heads of 3 or 4 spikes oblong conic over -^ inch long. 

 Bracts ovate riljbed I inch long. Bracteoles ovate dark brown ribbed. 

 Squamellae linear margins ciliate. Style trilid. Nut pear-shaped 

 with a ridge at one side pale brown very small. 



Singapore: Bukit Timali (Pidley 1714), Changi (Pidley 5798). 

 Endemic. Allied to M. WoJIicltii but with longer slender peduncles 3 

 or 4 spikes in a bead, and a did'ei-eiit nut. One specimen from Bukit 

 4'iinab (171 I) lias only a single spike in the head, hut it is more usual 

 to have 3 or I. This is the plant refei'red to by ^Ir. Clarke (Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. YI. p. 628) as M. )nu(li^ijicalu Clarke, but in litt. lie says now 

 it is not that species. 



