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greenish grey with six fiiscous-purple spots darker purple in 

 the base of the tube. Spathe tube 3 inches long, and as 

 Avide at the moutii, limb very broad, 6 inches long, 4 inches 

 across, oblong ovate in front, curiously blotched with circular 

 greenish blotches with a brown purple back ground, back 

 paler olivaceous with pale greenish spots. Spadix 6 inches 

 long, appendage a blunt cone cylindric, 3 inches long and 

 1 inch through, dull purple. Male portion yellowish cylindric, 

 1 inch long, anther cells two, parallel ; flowers oblong 

 crowded. Female portion I inch long, pistils very shortly 

 stalked or rather aiarrowed at th(^ base, style cylindric distinct, 

 stigma discord, A^ery crowded. 

 Abundant all over the low-lying parts of the Telom Woods. The 

 great abundance of this AmorjyhophoJJii^ show^ed the scarcity of 

 wild pigs. In Borneo and Johore, where these animals 

 abound, AmorplwphaUi are scarce or, if fairly abundant, the 

 tubers are deeply Iniried beneath big roots or under rocks, 

 where the pigs cannot get them. The Sakais had practically 

 exterminated the pigs here, hence the abundance of Amorpho- 

 phaJIl, whose tubers wei'e only just below the . surface. 

 This species is, perhaps, as near A. cornea, Eidl., as any 

 other species. Its curiously -mot tied spathe with its circular 

 blotches of dull green on a purplish ground, and its shape, 

 reminds one of the head of some curiously-blotched reptile. 



472. Alocasia dencdata, EngJ. 



Telom, large and typical. 



473. A. Beccarii, Engl. 



Telom Ridges in dry spots. 



474. Aglaonema angustifolium, JV^. E. Br. 



A broad-leaved form passing towards A. scliottlanion, Miq. 

 Telom. 



475. A. OBLONGIFOLIUM, Schotf. 



By the Bataug Padang Eiver, not seen further than Tapah 

 side. 



476. HOMALOMENA PUMILA, Hook.JlI. 



A considerable variety of forms, as far as the shape of the leaf 

 goes, were at Telom, from the typical little green round-leafed 

 form to forms with elongate rhizomes and long-petioled 

 leaves passing towards H. ^iropinqna, Ridl. The piu'ple- 

 leaved variety purfitrnscens grew also on damp banks of the 

 streams. 



477. SCHISMATOGLOTTIS CALYPTRATA, ZoU . 



Var. concolor, Hallier, was commonest, var. jj/c/a scarcer and 

 var, aJhidomacvlata was local. All about Telom. 



