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ataiked, angled, umbrella-shaped, covering the spikes at first, then 
deciduous. Mal» flowers intundibuliform with licerate morzins, 
-or of 4 obcuneate oblong truncate lobes; stamens °, connate, anther- 
cells numerous, linear, connate. Fema'e flower: perianth tubular 
or bilobed, lobes rounded; stvles 2, stigmas discoid; ovule 1, 
pendulous. Seed globose, albumen thin, embryo large —DistF tp. 
Species 2. One in Java and the Himalayas and one in the Malay 
Peninsula. 
1. Raoratoonemts RuFicees, Ridl. in Kew Bull. 188 (1914). 
Rhizome elongate, terete, over 15 cm. long, branched, 5 mm. throuch, 
yellow becoming oranze-brown outside. Leaves, scales and volva 
none. Stems columnar, terete, 8—1l0cm. long. 7mm. through, yellow 
with brown transverse streaks, Capitulum ovoid to cylindric, 4—l0 
em. long. 2—3 cm. through, rose pink covered with bright red bracts; 
bracts stipitate, cone-shaped, 4- to 6-angled (when dry), 5 cm long 
and 4mm. across the widest part; soon deciduous. Male flowers 
2mm. long, perianth lobes 4, oblong, truncate, shortly connate 
at the base; androecium shorter, column thick; anthers ellipsoid 
in an obtuse oblong head with about 8 linear loculi. Female flowers 
minute, flattened; perianth elliptic, tubular; stvles 2, stigmas 
discoid. Hairs in both sexes very numerous, dense, enclosing the 
flowers. 
Prexana: Stoliczka (in herb. Calc); Penara Bukit, Ridley. 
PERAK: Taiping Hills in dense forest, Low, Ridley, Anderson. 
Very distinct from the only other described species, R. phalloides, Jungh., in 
the slender creeping rhizome, the absence of any volva, the tall cylindric 
peduncle and cylindrical red capitulum. 
Family CXII. JUGLANDACEAS. 
Trees, usually large, with hard wood, often strongly aromatic. 
Leaves alternate, pinnate, stipules 0. Flowers moncecious: 3 in 
catkins in simple or paniculate pendulous spikes; perianth O or of 
3—6 lobes adnate to the bract: 9 in erect, sometimes afterwards 
pendulous, few or many-flowered spikes or racemes; perianth 
4-lobed, superior; bract inferior, often enlarged in fruit. Stamens 
2 or more, on the perianth-lobes ; anther-cells parallel ; filaments 
very short or 0. Ovary inferior, 1 celled ; ovule solitary, erect, 
orthotropous ; style short ; stigmas 2, short sessile or long, laciniate. 
Fruit a drupe or nut, naked or clothed with the marcescent bract and 
perianth-lobes; pericarp fleshy or succulent: endocarp hard, bony 
