180 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
Selangor, Dusun Tua; and near K wala Lumpur. 
I have also I believe seen the plant in Malacca. The foliage 
is pr чо а and resembles that of some of the South 
American Calathea The flowers are not often produced and 
resembling some curious beetle, the seed itself representing the 
body, and the claw-like arms of the aril the legs of the animal. 
The plant was first described from living plants sent to Bertin 
from the Malay peninsula by Professor Jagor. 
Ph, {арй отит Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii, 382. 
A large tufted plant about six feet tall, leaves ovate, lanc- 
eolate blade 18 inches long, 8 inches wide, acumin m green 
Spikes in a tuft from the side of the petiole with a stout ped- 
, 9 in eac 
linear subulate more than half an inch long. 
curved dilated E deis rather thick, lobes oblong, yes rounded 
blunt recurved, Capsule oblong obtusely 3 angled 4 inch long, 
three celled with a seed in each cell. Seeds narrow o lose 
Selangor at Ginting Bidai. Pahang, Tahan River. 
tuft of long spikes projecting from the side of the leaf 
stalk distinguishes this from any of our other species, 
Phrynium malaccense n, sp. 
-A large tufted plant. Leaves tall about 3 feet, petiole 
terete glabrous, except at the base 8 inches long inch thick, 
blade 15 inches long, 5 inches wide, lanceolate cuspidate dark 
green above, glancous green beneath, nerves very close and 
о ith b i 
glabrous. Head lateral from the petiole dense 2 inches се 
acute 1 inch long green. Flowers small fugacious, short 
stalked, stalk inch long, Calyx tube very short lobes lanceol- 
ate acute white hispid nearly as long as the corolla tube. Cor- 
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