THE SCITAMINEJE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 183 
cylindrical four inches long yellow. Seeds black angled, enclos- 
ed in an eatable pulp. 
mon all over the main chain of the peninsula. Malacca, 
Жыга, Perak, Pahang. 
M. n Rid. l.c. 
Pahang at Pulau Tijau, Pa cate d 
e very blunt spikes with P lioe ү distinguish this 
rare kind readily, 
M. violascens Rid. l.c. 334. 
Stems 8 to 10 feet. Leaves 10 ae across po pee! 
ribbed iod whitish beneath. Spike erect or nearly a 
acute. Bracts lanceolate narrow acute violet or white’ tinted 
with violet, nine inches long and 2 inches wide, often persisting 
and reflexed after the flowers have fallen, rachis pubescent. 
Male flowers 6 in a single row in each bract, about an inch 
long. Females also. 6in arow. Fruit 3 inches long Greeti 
ndric. 
n all over the main chain of the peninsula, often 
pore with M. Malaccensis. Pahang, Perak, Selangor, Sungei 
Ujon 
E Ва sily recognized by its acute erect spikes with bracts со- 
lored like a purple brinjal. ` 
LOWIACEAE. = 
A small group of plants forming a single genus Lowia, very 
unlike any other Scitaminee, being stemless with broad dark 
green leaves like those of a a, and a short prostrate panicle 
of flowers from among the leaves. The flowers are medium 
size or large with a ар almost solid calyx tube three long 
calyx lobes, two very small petals and a large obovate Ar five 
= short stamens, and a short stout style ending in a three 
med stigma. Capsule large, fusiform acute w vith eee 
fask-abuped pubescent seeds. 
