106 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



head ovate broad brown with scarious margins. Bracteoles ovate ob- 

 tuse ribbed. Squamcllae 6 shorter narrow f inch long. Anthers white 

 linear oblong. Style long pink trifid. Nut -} inch long, broadly 

 fusiform oblique beak very short dusky scurfy brown. Clarke Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. 683. M. hicida, N. E. Br. Illustr. Hort. XXXII. 77. 

 t. 557. Pandanoi)liyUum huinile, Hassk. Tijsch. Nat. A-^ereen. Ned. 

 Ind. X. 119. Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XXXVIII. pt. II. 82. 

 P. zippeUanum, Kurz. in Tijdsch. Nat. Vcrcen. XXVII. 126. Bot. 

 Zeit. XXIII. 204. P. Wendlandi, Gard. Chron. XXI. 1884, 711. 

 Lepironia cuspidata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 603. L. humilis, Miq. 

 111. Fl. Arch. Ind. 61. t. 23. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Kidley 6546), Kranji (1713) ; Johor; 

 M. Castlewood (Eidley 9176); Negri Sembilan: Perhentian Tinggi 

 (Eidlcy) ; Malacca (Griffith), (Hervey), Selandor (Cantlev's Coll.); 

 Selangor: Petaling; Porak: Larut Hills at 4000 feet (Curtis 2081), 

 (King's Coll. 2554); Pahang: Tahan Eiver; Penang (Curtis 287). 

 Distrib. Borneo. Common in forests. 



9. M. TRIQUETRA, Eidl. Stem ascending or erect, 6 inches long, 

 triquetrous from the broad leaf sheaths 1^ inch long 1 inch wide 

 green edged pink, petiole green 2-3 inches long blade oblong dark 

 green above paler beneath base broad 6-8 inches long 2 inches wide 

 ending abruptly in a tail 14 inch long edges aculeate. Scape slender 

 3 inches long red. Head very small 4 inch long. Bracts shorter 

 lanceolate red. Sqamellae 6, 2 outer ones with ciliate keels. Stamens 

 3 white. Anthers twisted linear oblong. Style long stigmas 3 short. 



Bindings: Lumut (Ridley) ; Pangkor (Scortcchini) ; Negri Sem- 

 bilan: Bukit Tumiang (Cantley's Coll.); Penang Hill (Curtis). 

 Distrib. Borneo. In forests. 



21. SCIRPODENDRON, Zipp. 



Large coarse tufted plants resembling a pandanus, rhizome 

 horizontal, stem very short. Leaves long linear narrow acuminate 

 aculeolate. Inflorescence a head of spikes on a short peduncle hidden 

 among the leaves. Bracts longer. vSpikes dense, numerous. Brac- 

 teoles (glumes) large oblong coriaceous 1 or more flowered. Squa- 

 melhie numerous 2 lateral broadest concave ciliate on keel monandrous, 

 inner above 6. Stamens elongate. Anthers slender. Style slender, 

 bifid. Nut large deeply grooved. 



Species 1. Ceylon, Malay Islands, Australia, Samoa. 



S. cosTATUM, Kurz. Journ. As. Soc, Beng. XXXVIII. pt. 2, So. 

 Bhizome rather slender witb long roots. Leaves 10 feet long 1-1^ 

 inch across, tail liliform scabrid 6 to 10 inches long. Infloresce;ice 

 ])eduncle lengthening in fruit to a foot long. Spikes yellowish white 

 ovoid. Bracts leaflikc very long, lower ones 4 feet or less, ujiper bracts 



