80 



408. Stachyphrynium Geipfithii, Srhvm. 



Also grew in great masses near Tapali, densely covering some of 

 the hill sides in the forests towards Temoh. I found a fresh 

 pig's nest made entirely of this plant, dug up and piled into a 

 long-domed mass. 



MURACBiR. 



409. MUSA TRUNCATA, V. Sj). 



Stems. 20 feet tall, 1 foot through at the base, deep brown pur- 

 ple. Leaves, with a thick petiole, 45 inches long, blade with a 

 rounded liase, apex trimcate, quite straight, the midrib project- 

 ing in the form of a filament, 20 feet long, 2^ feet Avide, 

 light green. Spike pendulovis. about 4 feet long, bud deep 

 violet conic pointed. Bracts deep purple violet, young ones 

 maroon pink, darkening later. Male flowers whitish, shortly 

 stalked, H inch long. Calyx boat shaped, longer than 

 the corolla, four lobed with narrow cuspidate lobes. Fruit 

 narrow eylindric, hardly angled, 5 inches long, in two rows 

 of 11 each. 



The common Banana at Telom ; allied to M. malaccense, but 

 very much larger. It has much the habit of the cultivated 

 Banana " Pisang Rajah Hudang." 



410. M. vioLASCENs, Bid]. 



Common in the low country, disaj^pears soon after entering the 

 Batang Padang valley. 



411. M. MALACCBNSIS, Rifll. 



Ascends higher l)ut disappears before Telom is reached, 



AMARYLLTDE.^.. 



412. CuRcuLiGO RECURVATA, Brijand, var. longepedunculata. 



A form with peduncles 1 foot long and the leaves narrower. 

 Telom Woods. The same form occurs on the Taiping Hills. 



413. C. LATiFOLiA, Dryand, var. angustifolia. 



Cameron's plateau (Messrs. Robinson and Kloss). This form 

 has very narrow grassy leaves, quite glabrous. 



BURMANNIACEJi]. 



414. BURMANNIA LONGIFOLIA, BecC. 



Gunong Berumlxin. Nearly out of flower at this time. It 

 occurs all over our hill ranges. The flowers here were 

 \n\ve white. 



TACCACE/E. 



415. Tacca cristata, Jacl-. 



Telom, ])y the stream at the camp. A large form with dirty 

 green involucre and flowers. 



