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8 pollices lata, vel minora, petiolis 8 pollices longis ad genum alatis. 
Spatha cylindrica, 6-8 pollices longa, crassa, pedunculo valido, 
8 pollices longa, Spadix longa cylindrica, 7 pollices longa, 53, pol- 
licis in diametro. Pistilla hexagona, stigmatibus discoideis. 
On rocks, Selangor, Kwala Lumpur Caves, Penang, Penara 
Bukit. 
This plant creeps often in large masses on the rocks in many 
laces, but can seldom be met with in flower. Its long thin- 
textured leaves are of a very bright green, very unlike those of any 
other species known to me. The long cylindrical spadix is also 
remarkable. 
Lemnace® or THE Matay Peninsuna. 
No Lemnacee are definitely recorded from the Malay Peninsula 
in the Flora of British India, so that it may be worth while to 
record what species are as yet known from this region. 
Lemna paucicostata Hegelm. is by far the commonest species. 
I have once met with it in flower in a partly dried-up pond. It is 
common in Singapore, Malacca, Pahang at Pekan, Province Wel- 
lesley at Permatang Bertam (no. 7011). 
t 
not included in that work; and it has not apparently been gathered 
soit er except by myself. It has never yet been met with in 
ower. 
_ L. polyrrhiza L. is rare. I have met with it in ditches in 
Singapore. 
: _Wolffia arrhiza Wimm. is not, I believe, rare. I have collected 
it in Singapore, not far from the Gardens, and found it on one 
occasion in great abundance in an old well in the resident’s garden 
a Malacca. It has, however, completely disappeared from there 
nee. 
THOMAS MEEHAN 
(1826-1901). 
tion had been exercised, for in 
April 25, 1845 (Phytologist, ii, 1 
