Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 105 



5. M. LONGA, Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 683. A large tufted plant 

 with a long rhizome. Leaves 3-4 feet long f inch wide linaer acu- 

 minate, edges aculeate for nearly the whole length, keel aculeate above. 

 Scapes slender 10 to 25 inches long, with a few sheaths at the base. 

 Head 1 rarely 2, ovoid f inch long ^ inch wide in fruit. Bracts 

 shorter than inflorescence ovate subacute ribbed green, margin thin. 

 Squamellae nearly as long as the bracteoles. 



Singapore: Seletar (Eidley 169, 6254). Distrib. Borneo. A 

 large Pandanus-like plant growing in streams. 



6. M. TEXUISCAPA, Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 683. Ehizome { 

 inch through woody. Leaves narrow linear acuminate, 3 feet long 

 f inch Avide with 4 nerves, edges and keel at tip aculeolate. Scapes 

 3-6 inches long with 4 or 5 sheaths at the base, base ^ inch long. 

 Bracts brown ribbed, Squamellae 6, |-J inch long nearly as long as the 

 bracteole. Xut ovoid shortly beaked black. P. andanophyUuui, 

 Kurz. Journ. i\.s. Soc. Beng. XXXVIII. part II. 81 (partly). 



Johor: Kuala Sembrong (Kelsall, liidley 4094), Sungei Tebrau 

 (Eidley 11501); Malacca (Griffith 6299). Distrib. Sumatra and 

 Borneo. In muddy forests by river banks. 



7. M. Wallichii, C. B. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 682. Stem 

 short erect stout, woody, 2 inches long ^ inch through. Leaves long 

 linear 3-4 feet long 2 inches across edges and keel above serrate very 

 stiff. Inflorescence several very shortly (^ inch) peduncled, in 

 flower fusiform £ inch long, in fruit conic 1 inch long f inch through. 

 Glumes ovate ribbed lower ones mucronate upper ones not mucronate 

 narrower. Squamellae 6, narrow % inch long, outer ones keeled 

 ciliate at the tip inner ones linear hyaline. Style trifid white. Nut 

 \ inch long ovoid turgid base narrowed to a short stalk. Beak short 

 incurved. Kurz. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XXXVIII. pt. 11. 79 (not 

 Hassk.). 



Singapore (Wallich 3541), Bukit Tiniah (Eidley 11475). Dis- 

 trib. Borneo. 



A big tufted plant in dense forests. Young spikes are green 

 with a darker edge conic when dry polished yellow, minutely dotted. 

 Occasionally the peduncles are much longer and more slender, 6 to 

 8 inches long. 



8. M. HUMiLis, Xaves & Villar Blanco Fl. Filip. Append. 309. 

 Stem short 2-3 inches long stout. Leaves equitant at base with broad 

 sheaths over 1 inch across, passing into a petiole half as long as the 

 suddenly dilated blade, blade oblong serrulate ending rather abruptly 

 in a slender tail, 28 inches long 1 inch wide, tail 3-4 inches long. 

 Scapes ^-12 inches long covered at the base with scales. Head fusi- 

 form when young, ovoid when full grown. Bracts shorter than the 



