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nate flowers 1^ inch apart. Bracts lanceolate acuminate 

 1 inch long narrow. Pedicel shorter. Flower about 1 

 inch across, sepals and petals widely spreading similar 

 lanceolate oblong narrow acute, pure white. Stamens 

 connivent, filaments terete acuminate white longer than 

 the anthers Ovary 3 lobed yellow, style as long as the 

 anthers, stigma minute, white. After producing a few 

 flowers the receme elongates to about 6 feet trailing on 

 the ground, and bears bulbils. 



Siam : Trang (St. V, B. Down, and Penang Gardens 

 Collectors.,) 



Aroidea.. 



Criptocoryne striolata var. cordifolia. 



In streams on Siul hill near Kuching (Sept. 1905). 

 I believe this is a variety of C. striolata but the leaves 

 are ovate blunt, more deeply cordate, almost auricled. 

 The flower spathe was purple. It grew with Cr. grandis 

 Ridl. which has a yellow spathe. 



Hapaline appendiculata, n. sp. 



Leaves one or more, always few, erect ovate acute 

 hastate, lower lobes lanceolate, sinus narrow, light green 

 with curved ascending nerves 4 inches long, 2 inches 

 across of which the lobes are 1 inch long petiole white 

 1^ inch long. Spadices several, entirely pure white, 

 peduncle slender 1^ inch long white. Spathe linear 

 acuminate 1 inch long very narrow hardly \ inch across 

 at the base, base convolute round the base of the 

 spadix. Base of spadix adnate to the tube of the 

 spathe, with 3 flask-shaped shortly stalked pistils on 

 the opposite side. Stigma capitate yellowish. Male 

 flowers few very irregular in shape the lowest oblong 

 the others smaller, rounded. Appendage long filiform' 

 acuminate slender longer than the spathe. 



Sarawak : at Puak, in woods. (H. N. Bidley). 

 B. A; Soc, No. 49, 1907. 



