Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 329 
Perak: at Larut at 3200—500 ft. in open jungle on rich rocky 
soil, King’s Collector 3122. 
51. Preer RUFiBRAcTEUM, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 
21 (1912). Branches glabrous drying brown, the spiciferous | mm. 
thick ; collenchyma subcontinuous and nearly libriform ; no lysigenous 
canal. Leaves very shortly petioled, glabrous; limb subcoriaceous 
when dry, copiously pellucid-dotted; up to 9°5 cm. long and 3°5 
em. wide; oblong-elliptic, shortly and obtusely attenuate, the base 
inequilateral, rounded on both sides; 9-plinerved, the central nerve 
emitting 2 alternate ascendent nerves the uppermost from nearly 
29 mm. above the base, and having on each side of it 3 nerves free 
from the base the most external more arcuate much thinner and 
shorter than the others; petiole 55 mm. long of which 3 mm. 
between the sides of the limb, sheath prolonged a little above the 
base. Peduncle glabrous 4°2 mm. long. Spike: 3 25°5 mm. long 
and 1 mm. thick when nearly flowering; rhachis glabrous; limb of 
bract obovate, subattenuate at its lower end, densely rufo-pubescent 
outside, with a glabrous short and thick pedicel containing gelified 
cells; stamens 2 or ? 3, anthers ovate. 4-valvate, shorter than the 
oblong filaments. 
Mauacca: Maingay K. D. 13829. 
52. PirpER KUNSTLERI, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 21 
(1912). Erect, 60—90 cm. high. Branches glabrous, drying brown, 
the spiciferous 0°5 mm. thick; collenchyma continuous, sparingly 
libriform ; a single central lysigenous canal. Leaves glabrous, very 
shortly petioled; limb membranous when dry, minutely pellucid- 
dotted, 12°5 cm. long, 4:5 cm. wide; elliptic-oblong, acutely and rather 
long acuminate, the base slightly inequilateral, attenuate on the 
shortest sides rounded on the longest ; penninerved, the central nerve 
emitting on each side 3 ascendent thin nerves, the uppermost from 
25—30 mm. above the base; petiole about 2 mm. long with basal 
sheath. Peduncle glabrous, very slender, 6 mm. long. Spike: 3 
nearly 21 mm. iong and 2 mm. thick when flowering, rhachis hirsute ; 
limb of the bract orbicular, glabrous, 0°6 mm. in diam., with a short 
hirsute and central pedicel; stamens 3, anthers ovate, 4-valvate, 
much shorter than the rather long filaments. 
PENANG: in dense jungle on rocky ground, February, King’s 
Collector 1315. 
