316 164 
Commelinaceae. 
Pollia Thumb. 
1. . thyrsiflora (Blume) Hasskarl, Plantae Junghuhnianae, p. 150, 
1853; Clarke, Commelinaceae in A. & C. De Candolle, Monogr. Phanerog., 
vol. Ill, p. 124; Hook. f., Fl. British India, VI, p. 367; Tradescantia th. 
Blume in Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. VII, 2, 1830, p.1157; Lampro- 
carpus th. Blume, ibidem, p. 1726. 
The specimen collected was beginning to flower and no fruit is devel- 
oped, but I think that the short and dense inflorescence and the large 
and broad bracts and bracteoles are sufficient to distinguish it from the 
allied P. aclisia Hassk. 
Klong Sarlakpet in the jungle (No. 847). 
Area: Java, Philippine Islands, South Andamans. 
Amaryllidaceae. 
Curculigo Gartn. 
1. ¢, latifolia Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew., Ed. 2, II, p. 253; Hook. f., 
Fl. Brit. India, VI, p. 280; C. sumatrana Roxb:, FI. Ind., II, p. 146; 
Wight, Icones tab. 2042. ; 
The specimens collected belong to the first mentioned form in 
Hooker f., 1. ¢. 
Common in the jungle near Lem Dan (No, 511). 
Area: Andaman Islands, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Malay Archipelago. 
Crinum L. 
2. ¢. asiaticum L., Sp. pl. 419; Baker, Handb. of Amaryllid. p. 75; 
Botan. Magazine, tab. 1073; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India, VI, p. 280. C. toai- 
canum Roxb., Wight, [cones tab. 2021—2. 
Koh Kahdat, sandy seashore (No. 569). 
Area: India, Ceylon. 
Taccaceae. 
Tacea Forst. 
1. 1. pinnatifida Forst., Plant. Esculent., No. 28; Char. Gen. p. 69, 
tab. 35; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India, VI, p. 287; Curtis, Botan. Magazine, 
tab. 7299, 7300, 1893; T. pinnatifolia Gartn., De Fruct., I, p. 43, tab. 14. 
Only a scape with mature fruits was brought home, but the species 
is recognisable by the ribbed seeds, the unilocular fruit, the long filiform 
bracts and the numerous involucral leaves. 
