396 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
1. BALANOPHORA, Forst. 
Fleshy, red or yellow herbs with a tuberous warty rhizome. 
Peduncles cylindric with large scale leaves, or subfoliaceous yellow 
leaves. Spikes unisexual or bisexual, ovoid or cylindric, dense- 
flowered. Perianth of male flowers stipitate, with 3 to 6 lobes, ovate 
or oblong, valvate. Siamens 3 to many; filaments connate in a 
cylinder ; anthers bilocular with bilocellate loculi or connate into a 
3- to many-locellate mass. Perianth of minute female flowers 0, the 
flowers sessile on the receptacle or on the stipes of fleshy cellular 
bodies (spadicels). Ovary ellipsoid with a slender hair-like style and 
terminal stigma; ovule solitary, pendulous Seed very minute, 
globose.—Distriz. Species about 15, in Tropical Asia and Australia. 
Spikes unisexual, red. 
Anther cells 5, hippocrepiform oe .. IL. B. gigantea. 
Anther cells more than 5, linear 
Rhizome branched, pustular; anther cells 20 or 
more s a .. 2. B. multibrachiata. 
Rhizome fuboreds not ised’ anther cells 
about 12 ie : .. 93 B. globosa. 
Spikes slender, unisexual, Teller ; Teuanth lobes in 
two dissimilar pairs . oc .. 4. B. truncata. 
Spikes bisexual, yellow, pendee a0 .« 5. B. insularis. 
1. BALANOPHORA GIGANTEA, Wall. Cat. 7249 (1828). Rhizome 
tuberous, 15 cm. through, tessellate, not pustulate, dark orange 
colour, subterranean, bluntly lobed. Peduncles up to 10 cm. tall, 
covered by numerous ovate or lanceolate subcoriaceous obtuse deep 
red scales. Male spike cylindric-conic, densely flowered, the flowers 
sunk in alveoli, the pedicels as long as the perianth, white. Perianth- 
lobes linear oblong, equal, their apices truncate, incurved, 7 mm. 
long, bases white, tips deep red. Androecium white, compressed, 
cylindric, obtuse, cells horse-shoe-shaped, 5 (‘‘4 to 6’’ Fawcett). 
Female spike shortly peduncled, obovoid, top rounded, 3 cm. long, 
2 cm. across. Spadicels oblong-cylindric, obtuse, stipitate ; female 
flowers borne on the stipes of the spadicel and shorter than it. 
Fawcett Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, II, 325, t. 33, fig. 5—7. 
Perak: Ulu Batang Padang near Telom, in dense forest, Ridley, 
at Kinta G(unong) M(alaka?) King’s Collector 7199. SmLaNGoR: 
on the roots of a large fig tree, Semangkoh Pass, Ridley 8520.— 
Distris Burma, Tonkin. 
Kunstler describes the colouring of the plant as light yellow, the stem 
and leaves as fleshy, the flowers sulphur yellow, calyx deep red. I have 
described it according to my field notes. It was referred by Hooker fil. Fl. 
