84 HE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
SOME MALAY AROIDS. 
By H. N. Ruwtzy, M.A., F.L.S. 
Cryptocoryne agen Schott. This was described (Aun. 
Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 122) from a fruiting plant obtained in Sumatra, 
and was figured in Engler’s Aracee exsicc. et illustr. no. 24. A 
lant in flower collected by a native collector between Gunong 
Pulai and Johor-town, in the State of Johor, is, without doubt, as 
Dr. Prain pointed out, this little-known species. The robe are 
ovate- cordate, with distinct auricles and undulate edges, 2 in 
and 14 in. Shu the petioles 3 in. long, and sheathing for one- third 
of their length. The scapes are very short; the spathes have a 
stout tube 4 in. long, dilated at the base, and an ovate limb 14 in. 
long, and martes in a tail 5 in. in length. The limb is of a deep 
ieee colo 
ISTIA ES L. Though of se Sa wide distribution, this 
is on doubtfully wild in the Malay Peninsula. It is cult ivated by 
the Chinese for feeding pigs, and is siatind about bby. ee for that 
purpose. I found it floating down the Batu Pahat river (Johor) in 
considerable quantities, but on reaching the tidal portion of the 
river as soon as the water was the least saline it died and rotted 
wa, 
nt. 
Gaudichaud in Singapore, is probably also this species, but both 
are worthless for identification. The 
leaves, which are usually sagittate with long lobes, in seedlings 
are quite entire oe eter ae the adult leaves of A. Beccarit 
Engler. A. Lowi 
Borneo, occurs sins i in thie Malay 1 Peninsula at Kwala Dipan 
in on cs on the limestone rocks near Kwala Lum mpur :. Rs 
has been cultivated in Singapore for ve 
arias obtained wild by any collector. 
a. 
Snecma Curtisii, sp.n. Caulis brevis we fois | 
umina atis nutantibus flaccidis, 4-5 pollices — 
atroviridibus vel atrorubentibus, petal 
H. ( 
lanceolatis obliquis 
longis, 1-14 pollicis ‘atis, 
well-known cultivated plant a. 7 
