398 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
The commonest species in the Peninsula, parasitic on coniferae, Dacrydium , 
ete. Junghuhn only describes and figures the female, but I have little doubt 
that this is the plant he intended. A rhizome from Java from De Vriese, who 
calls it B globosa, is identical with the Peninsular species. Fawcett, however, 
refers it to his species B. ramosa. 
4. BaLANOPHORA TRUNCATA, Rid]. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XLI, 
296 (1912). Rhizome tuberous, as large as the fist, deeply buried, 
tessellate and papillose, not pustular. Male flower stems 7 to 20cm. 
long, slender, dirty yellow. Leaves sheathing the basal portion 3 
to « , rather distant, lanceolate, obtuse to oblong, 2 to 3 cm. long. 
Flower spik lax, slender, 4—9 cm.long; flowers sessile, transversely 
oblong, 5 mm. wide by 2 mm. across. Outer perianth-lohes 2, 
transversely oblong, inner pair linear oblong, much narrower, obtuse, 
truncate, yellow. Androecium white, transversely oblong; cells 
parallel, linear, very numerous. Female flower spike not seen. 
Perak: Ulu Batang Padang at about 900 m elevation, parasitic 
on a woody climber, Ridley. Setancor: Mt. Menuang Gasing 
between 900 and 1500 m. elevation, C. B. Kloss. 
This is allied to B. polyandra, Griff., but is more slender and with very 
differently shaped perianth lobes. 
5. BALANOPHORA INSULARIS, Ridl. in Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Str. 
Br. XLV. 213 (1907). Rhizome rather small, about 2 in. 
through, nodular and warted. Stems one or more with a small 
volva split into 4 or 5 rounded lobes at the base, 8—9 cm. tall, 
entirely lemon yellow, 3 mm. thick. Leaves oblong, linear, blunt, 
2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, tips often denticulate. Spike with scattered 
male flowers at the base; apex ellipsoid-ovate, female. Male flowers 
1 mm. across; perianth lobes oblong, truncate, upper and lower 
ones longer and wider than the lateral! ones. Androecium trans- 
versely oblong, cells 7—8, hexagonal. Female flowers shortly stalked, 
with numerous obovate tailed spadicels; ovary obovoid, minutely 
pustulate. ; 
Perak: Lenggong, Ridley. Pauana: East coast on Pulau Aur, 
Feilding.—Distris. Christmas Island. 
2. RHOPALOCNEMIS, Jungh. 
Fleshy parasitic herbs, yellow or red. Rhizome tuberous or 
elongate, scales and leaves absent. Spikes unisexual, sessile or 
stalked, cylindric, many-flowered. Flowers of both sexes minute, 
imbedded in a mass of filiform cellular hairs; bracts peltate, conic, 
