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linear, acuminate, 2 inches long, green. Fruit ovoid, shortly 

 broadly stipitate at base ; apex abruptly beaked ; beak half an 

 inch long, obscurely trigonous ; scales ovate, triangular, obtuse, 

 margins paler, thin, shortly fimbriate. 



On the drier part of the hill at Kuala Teku. 



A very distinct plant from the only other Peninsular 

 species, E. iristis, Griff., in its smaller clumps, broad leaflets, 

 and short inflorescence. It only occurs on the drier parts of 

 the hills and woods at Kwala Teku.] 



ARACEiE. 



260. HoMALOMENA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Hook. fil. Abundant 

 in cracks in the rocks of the Teku Rivei to a height of about 

 5,000 feet. There are two forms, the ordinary long-leaved 

 form with leaves 5 inches long on a four-inch petiole, and a 

 dwarf form forming dense mats 2 to 3 inches high. This form 

 has spathes as big as those of the taller plant, and both have 

 cusps rather longer than usual. 



It occurs in mountain-streams all over the Peninsula, 

 varying in form according to the rapidity of the stream at its 

 place of growth. 



261. HoMALOMENA PUMILA, Hook. fil. aiitca, p. 6o. Wet 

 woods on the first stream on the Padang; local. 



Common in the Malay Peninsula from sea-level to about 

 4,000 or 5,000 feet elevation; also Borneo. 



*262. SciNDAPSus ScoRTECHiNii, Hook. fil.; Ridl. op. cit. 

 p. 332. Woods on the Teku, where it joins the stream from 

 the Camp, and a short way up that stream. Collected here 

 also by Robinson. Out of flower in July. 



Usually common on rocks and trees at 3,000 to 4,000 feet 

 ,in Selangor, Perak, and Kedah, but not common on Gunong 

 Tahan. It does not seem to go over 5,000 feet elevation. 



PANDANACEiE. 



263. Pandanus Klossii, n. sp. 



Stems usually solitary, 8 to 20 feet tall, 3 inches through, 

 rounded, grey and bare, leafy at the top only. Leaves linear, 

 somewhat abruptly cuspidate, over 5 feet long, 3 inches wide, 

 hard and coriaceous, with strong black-hooked or ascending 

 thorns \ inch long along the edge and keel to the lower part, 

 smaller and closer-set on the edges upwards, very small and 

 close on the cusp. Cusp slender, stiff, i inch long. Capitulum 

 globose or oblong, as big as the head, on a short stout pedimcle 

 6 inches long, breaking up into syncarps of 6 or 7 fruits, 2^ 

 inches long, above bluntly angled; apex of fruit shortly free, 

 truncate, obscurely angled, and cone-shaped. Style \ inch 

 long, slightly bent, acute, dark brown, simple or branched, 

 broad with two spreading points. Stigma linear for the whole 

 length. 



Common all over the Padang. In the more open exposed 

 spots the stem is short and erect, about 6 to 8 feet tall; in the 

 woods the stems are long and weaker, often falling about at 



