THE MALAY PENINSULA. 95 
Habitat. Dense jungle Singapore, Bukit Timah, Ang Mo 
Kio: Selangor, Kwala Lumpur: Perak, Thaiping Hills: Penang 
Till. 
This is a very distinct plant in its almost globular unexpand- 
ed entirely deep-purple flowers, which indeed are really almost 
black. I believe it to be at least in part the plant intended by 
Baker’s description, but I have not seen Wallich’s plant no. 5084 
on which the species is based and which was collected in Attran. 
Baker gives three varieties, also all Indian and Burmese, 
“some at least of which appear to be distinct plants. 
P. viridis n. sp. 
A compact bushy plant with a stout rhizome. The leaves 
rather numerous, petioles semiterete 8 or 9 inches long glaucous, 
blade lanceolate acuminate at both ends plicate seven or eight 
inches long, one and a half broad, the nerves five or seven raised, 
upper surface of leaf dark green polished, lower side glauces- 
cent. Racemes about five inches long stout, racbis purplish or 
green with numerous empty lanceolate acuminate scarious bracts 
at the base. Bracts (floral) two to each tower, the outer one 
with a subquadrate base and a linear point longer than the 
pedicel, the inner lanceolate acute shorter. Flowers numerous 
nodding on short stout pedicels pale emerald green. Sepals. 
and petals nearly equal in size ovate fleshy three sixteenths of an 
inch long. Petals more oblong and a little narrower. The 
staminal ring bun-shaped circular rather large and deep green 
with very small yellow anthers. Free from the perianth and 
pistil except at the base. Pistil about as long as the staminal 
ring conical, stigma obscurely three lobed, ovary superior. 
Seed pale azure blue, over half an inch long, endosperm globular. 
Singapore, Chan Chu Kang, Ang Mo Kio, Changi, etc. com- 
mon, in dense wet jungle. 
The narrow lanceolate leaves on long petioles, ain plain 
green flowers with the round deep green staminal ring distin- 
guish this plant. It has very copious and long wiry roots. | 
have not seen it elsewhere than in Singapore, unless a_ plant 
with very much broader leaves and smaller flowers from Malacca 
is a variety only, but my specimens are not sufficiently good to 
determine this. 
It is quite possible that this is the plant intended in Andrews 
Botanical Repository T. 634, and the Botanic Magazine, T. 
