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all angles, 20 feet or more long. The capitulum is large and 

 showed signs of turning red or orange; the drupes are separate 

 till the fruit is nearly ripe, when from 6 to 7 become adnate 

 and remain so as the whole fruit breaks up. 



I do not know any pandan like this in the Peninsula. 

 The fruit when ripe has the appearance of that of P. fascicular is, 

 but it has thorn-like stigmas belonging to a different section. 

 The stigmas are often simple, acute, thorn-like processes, but 

 frequently also on the same head are broad, fiat, and bifurcate 

 at the lip, with recurved points like those of P. bicornis, Ridl. 



No trace of male flowers could be seen anywhere. The 

 plant is very abundant, almost filling up the woods in some 

 places. 



264. Freycinetia sp. A large and stout species of 

 Freycinetia is abundant in the Teku woods. No signs of 

 inflorescence were seen, but it resembled F. valida, Ridl. 



ERIOCAULACEiE. 



*265. Eriocaulon Hookerianum, Stapf. 



Eriocaulon macrophyllwn, Ridl. op. cit. p. 332. 



Dry spots on Gunong Riam, 6,000 feet altitude, and on 

 summit of Gunong Tahan, 7,100 feet. This exactly resembles 

 the type-plants of Kinabalu collected by Haviland. I find the 

 petals of the male flower very unequal, one being considerably 

 longer than the other. 



In the lower-lying and damper parts of the Padang there 

 is another plant which differs from this species in having a less 

 distinct stem and thin long flaccid leaves, but of which 

 the flowers bear a very close resemblance to those of 

 E. Hookerianum, and it is possible that it is a lowland 

 form of that species. In the previous paper I named this 

 E. inacrophylliim, Ruhl., only known from a Javan specimen 

 collected by Warburg, but closely resembling a Javanese plant 

 collected by Horsfield and now in the British Museum. (It is 

 always regrettable that so many authors of the ' Pflanzenreich' 

 volumes appear to have omitted to inspect the largest and 

 most important herbaria of Kew and the British Museum.) 



I think, however, this plant is probably not the plant 

 intended by Ruhland for his macrophylhim, and I cannot find 

 any description to exactly suit this lowland species. I will 

 describe it herewith, and give it a name: — 



266. Eriocaulon silicicolum, n. sp. 



Stem very short, herbaceous, covered by the bases of the 

 leaves. Leaves linear, flaccid, herbaceous, acute, 5 to 8 inches 

 long, g^ to ^ inch wide, with a few sparse hairs soon disappear- 

 ing. Scapes I to 3 in a tuft, slender, erect, 12-18 inches tall, 

 glabrous, ribbed. Spathe at base tubular, 4 inches long, with 

 lanceolate elongate limb. Capitulum \ to nearly J inch across. 

 Involucral bracts oblong, rounded at the tip, pubescent. Male 

 flowers: bracts cuneate, apex rounded, pale translucent, apex 

 thickly covered with white hairs. Perianth stalked. Sepals 

 oblong, cuneate, tipped with white hairs and black-dotted, 



