52 NEW OK RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



knee short. Spathe peduncle stout woodj 6 inches or 

 more long ^ inch through, spadix sessile 6 inches long 

 1 inch through cylindric. Pistils oblong longer than 

 broad. Stigma linear stamens projecting. Anther 

 cells ovoid. 



Sarawak on big trees at Tambusan Sept. 1905. (Ridley 

 12414). 



A fine plant either with its neat creeping stem, with 

 its overlapping oval leaves, or with its fine Monstera- 

 like full grown foliage. 



H. elliptica, n. sp. 



Stem slender woody branched, nodes an inch long, J 

 inch through when dry. Leaves remote elliptic inae- 

 quilateral narrowed at the base, acuminate rather 

 abruptly, glabrous thinly coriaceous drying black 4 to 

 9 inches long l-2-| inch wide, petiole slender 2-3^ inches 

 long. Spadix on a peduncle f inch long. Spathe 

 oblong acuminate boat-shaped 1^ inch long coriaceous. 

 Spadix sessile obtuse cylindric 1 inch long, \ inch 

 through. Pistils rounded hardly angled. Stigma 

 round-pulvinate. 



Sarawak : Kuching (Hewitt) Oct. 3, 1905. 



