98 THE PELIOSANTHES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
acuminate white bracts 3 of an inch long with broad bases. 
Flowers numerous crowded, solitary in the bracts, small star- 
shaped, green, outer bract lanceolate acuminate, longer than the 
pedicel, inner one very small. Pedicels $ inch long. Sepals and 
petals similar narrow linear obtuse with revolute edges, dull 
greyish green, less than } of an inch long, spreading. Staminal 
ring green, the stamens almost completely free, filaments oblong 
thick fleshy, anthers small orange, cells diverging. Ovary quite 
inferior rather large obconic. Style thick conical violet, taller 
than the staminal ring. Stigmas three recurved. Seed globose, 
when dry as large as a large pea. 
Hab: rocky banks, Penang Hill; Province Wellesley at 
Tasek Gelugur. Pahang, Tahan River woods. 
Our smallest species, a little tufted plant, remarkable for 
its little star-like flowers with very narrow petals and sepals 
the edges curled back. The ovary is very distinctly inferior, 
and is surmounted by a conical violet style longer than the 
stamens, which are barely connate, being easily separated and 
clearly shew that the rine is composed of the stamens, and 
is not any part of the perianth. 
It flowers in February, and is very common on Penang Hill. 
There are specimens of several other species in the her- 
barium of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, evidently unde- 
scribed, but insufficient for determination. Most were obtained 
along the Tahan River in Pahang, where these plants were 
numerous; unfortunately at the time of our visit nearly all were 
in fruit. : 
In the Flora of British India there is also described an 
Ophiopogon{?) prolifera, from Penang, which was sent thence by 
T. Lewis to the Horticultural Society’s gardens, where it flower- 
ed in 1845. It is very little known, but I suspect it is a curious 
plant which grows in masses on the rocks at the top of Penang 
Hill, but which neither in its native haunts nor yet under culti- 
vation here seems ever to produce flowers. 
