180 THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
Selangor, Dusun Tua; and near K wala Lumpur. 
I have also I believe seen the plant in Malacca. The foliage 
is prettily marked and resembles that of some of the South 
American Calatheas. The flowers are not often produced and 
are very inconspicuous. ‘I'he seeds have a very odd appearance, 
resembling some curious beetle, the seed itself representing the 
body, and the claw-like arms of the aril the legs of the animal. 
The plant was first described from living plants sent to Bertin 
from the Malay peninsula by Professor Jagor. 
Ph. tapirorum Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 382. 
A large tufted plant about six feet tall, leaves ovate, lanc- 
eolate blade 18 inches long, 8 inches wide, acuminate green. 
Spikes in a tuft from the side of the petiole with a stout ped- 
uncle two or three in a tuft about 4 inches long, with numerous 
ovate lanceolate brown bracts. Flowers white on short pedun- 
cles, 3 in each bract, an inch long. Bracteoles 2 thin bifid. Sepals 
linear subulate more than half an inch long. Corolla white tube 
curved dilated upwards rather thick, lobes oblong, apices rounded 
blunt recurved, Capsule oblong obtusely 3 angled 4 inch long, 
three celled with a seed in each cell. Seeds narrow oblong. 
Selangor at Ginting Bidai. Pahang, Tahan River. 
The tuft of long spikes projecting from the side of the leaf 
stalk distinguishes this from any of our other species. 
Phrynium malaccense n. sp. 
A large tufted plant. Leaves tall about 3 feet, petiole 
terete glabrous, except at the base 8 incheslong inch thick, 
blade 15 inches long, 5 inches wide, lanceolate cuspidate dark 
green above, glancous green beneath, nerves very close and 
numerous, midrib thick covered with brown fur, otherwise 
glabrous. Head lateral from the petiole dense 2 inches across, _ 
with about 4 branches. Bracts lanceolate acute stiff hard green 
glabrous 14 inch long, ? inch wide. Flower spikes 5 or 6 on each 
branch, with 2 or 3 flowers in each spike. Bracteole lanceolate 
acute 1 inch long green. Flowers small fugacious, shortly 
stalked, stalk inch long. Calyx tube very short lobes lanceol- 
ate acute white hispid nearly as long as the corolla tube. Cor- 
