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small saucer-shaped. Flowers solitary, sepals ovate as 

 long as the petals and quite similar. Fruit small globular 

 beaked J inch long scales in 6 whorls, rhomboidal as 

 broad as long, yellow or brownish yellow, tips darker, 

 grooved. 



This rattan is common in tidal river swamps, and is 

 known as "Kotan Bakau." There is a trade rattan of 

 the same name but I am not yet certain that it belongs 

 strictly to this plant. The general appearance of this 

 species when out of flower is that of Daemonorops 

 angustifolius. It does not seem to flower very frequently, 

 as I have seldom found it in flower or fruit, abundant as 

 it is, which is probably why it has never hitherto been 

 described. Professor Beccari who is engaged on a work 

 on our rattans to be published in the Annals of the 

 Botanic Gardens of Calcutta, considers it to be quite a 

 distinct plant from any described. 



I have met with it in Singapore, on the Serangoon 

 Road, and at Changi (6275 of my collections), Johore, 

 Panchur on the Johore river ; on the Sungei Tebrau 

 river, and at Batu Pahat (11216), and in Pahang at 

 Kuala Pahang. 



AKOIDEjE. 



Cryptocoryne purpurea, n. sp. Aquatic, stem creeping stoloniferous. 

 Leaves ovate or elliptic ovate, base broad 3 inches long 

 If inch wide, petioles 4 inches long, peduncle short 

 about half an inch long, spa the 3 or more inches long, 

 tube twisted ^ inch through, white, limb ovate caudate 

 •J to 1 inch long, half an inch wide deep purple brown 

 with a yellow mouth, pustular, tail ^ inch long, valve 

 over the inflorescence oblong truncate pale yellow. 

 Female flowers 6 to 8 connate in a circle, styles very 

 short, stigmas discoid, neuters above the pistils 5 or 

 more, nude portion of spadix slender. Male flowers few 

 yellow obcuneate, appendix small elliptic clubbed. 



Johore, Kota Tinggi (4214 of my collections). This 

 plant cultivated in the Singapore Botanic Gardens for 

 several years, was sent to Kew Gardens where it flowered 



Jour. Straits Branch 



