NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 47 



Perak on the Thaiping Hills ; and in Province Wel- 

 lesley at Tasek Gelugor. This is allied to A. sparsiflorus, 

 Hook, fil., differing in the shorter appendage and longer 

 male portion of the inflorescence. 



A. carnea n. sp. Tuber hemispheric 3 inches across. Leaf 

 unknown. Peduncle 3 inches and a half long, smooth 

 gray green with brown blotches, sheath at base 2 inches 

 long. Spathe 5 iuches long, loosely convolute at the 

 base with a broad limb pinkish with brown blotches, 

 paler within. Spadix rather longer. Appendix conic 

 obtuse 3 inches long 1 inch through at the base fleshed 

 low obscurely cancel late. Male portion 2 inches long 

 stout greenish. Stamens densely crowded. Female 

 portion ovaries shortly pedicellate, broad flask shaped, 

 style short and thick. Stigma lobed. 



Lankawi Islands (Curtis). This plant was flower- 

 ed from a tuber brought in with tubers of Arisaema 

 from Lankawi Islands, in the Penang Gardens. I have 

 only seen a drawing of it but I know nothing quite 

 like it. 



Alocasia ovaUfoUa, n. sp. Stem about a foot tall, leaves ovate 

 cordate acute dark green one to 2 feet long 5 to 12 

 inches wide with 20 pairs of nerves, petiole stout over a 

 foot long. Peduncle >ix inches long or less. Spathe 3 

 to 6 inches long, tubular portion 1^ inch long, limb 3 

 inches long -J inch wide oblong obtuse. Spadix slender, 

 appendage cylindric f to 2 inches long. Male portion 1 

 inch long. Flowers oblong crowded, below them a nude 

 portion. Female portion 1 inch long. 



Johore, base of Gunong Panti ; Selangor, Tras 

 Route at the 15th mile (No. 8487), Ginting Peras, Bukit 

 Kuta; Perak, Sungei Larut (Wray 2457), Larut Hills ; 

 Penang, Moniots Road (Curtis). Rather a dull looking 

 Alocasia not uncommon in the hill woods. 



Pothos inaequalis, n. sp. Stem rather slender much branched. 

 Leaves elliptic oblanceolate with a long point and 

 acuneate base intramarginal vein often far from the edge 

 undulate with another very inconspicuous one close to 

 the edge, main nerves often large and remote 4 to 7 



R. A. Soc, No. 41. 1903. 



