308 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Penang: Government hill, at 2000 ft. altitude, April, Curtis 
2291: Balik Pulau, March, 8026. Sunext Usone: Curtis 2083. 
16, PrreR VELUTINERVIUM, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 
7 (1912). Stem 0:9-—2:4 m. high, its lower portion rooting from the 
nodes ; spiciferous branches fulvescent-hirsute when young especially 
in the male, 4:2 mm. thick; collenchyma libriform in the male and 
not so in the female, in distinct laterally widened bundles ; a single 
central lysigenous canal. Leaves long petioled ; limb membranous 
when dry, copiously pellucid-dotted, glabrous above, velvety-hirtil- 
lous underneath on the nerves and veins ; up to 22 cm. long and 21 cm. 
wide ; rounded-ovate, acutely acuminate, the base equilateral and 
deeply cordate; 11-plinerved, the central nerve emitting 2 opposite 
ascendent nerves from nearly 6°3 mm. above the base, and having on 
each side of it 5 nerves free and divergent from the base; petiole 
fulvescent-hirsute and more densely so in the male, 11:5 mm. long, 
sheath prolonged up to 17 mm. above the base; stipules glabrous. 
Peduncle up to 16°8 mm. long, fulvescent-hirsute in the male, nearly 
glabrous in the female. Spike: 3 3°83 cm. long, 4:2 mm. thick ; 
rhachis hirsute; bract glabrous, its limb rounded, 1 mm. in diam. with 
a central pedicel; stamens 2, anthers subglobose, 4-valvate, much 
shorter than the oblong and exsert filaments: 9? up to 5:7 cm. 
long and 5:2 mm. thick; rhachis hirsute; bract rounded, 1:5 mm. 
in diam. with a central pedicel; ovary free, ovate, glabrous; 
stigmas 3, more rarely 4, ovate-oblong. Berry sessile, ovate-globose, 
yellow-red when living, black when dry, 4:2 mm. long. 
Perak: Larut, at 1809-2000 ft. altitude, in open jungle between 
rocks, August, King’s Collector 2193, 2196.—Distris. Sumatra. 
17. Prp—ER SARMENTOSUM, Roxb. FI. Ind. Ed. Car. & Wall. I. 
162 (1820). Erect, 15—45 cm. high, “ ramous at top, jointed and 
smooth, sarmentose shoots issuing in abundance from the top of the 
root and the lower part of the stem, by which the plant is quickly 
propagated to any extent’’ (Roxb. |.c.). Branches minutely 
puberulous, the spiciferous nearly 1 mm. thick; collenchyma not 
libriform, in distinct bundles; a single central lysigenous canal. 
Leaves moderately long petioled; limb membranous when dry, 
minutely pellucid-dotted, about 9 em. long, and 4:2 cm. wide, 
glabrous above, minutely puberulous underneath on the nerves, ovate, 
acutely acuminate, the base rounded, equilateral or very nearly so ; 
7-plinerved, the central nerve emitting 2 ascendent nerves, the 
