THE SCITAMINEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 183 
cylindrical four inches long yellow. Seeds black angled, enclos- 
ed in an eatable pulp. 
Common all over the main chain of the peninsula. Malacca, 
Selangor, Perak, Pahang. 
MM, flava Wid. \-c. 
Leaves large 16 inches across green. Spike decurved 
pubescent. Bracts widely ovate obtuse 4 inches long, bright 
yellow. Male flowers 16 in each bract arranged in two rows 
much like those of the preceding. Females also 16 in two rows, 
Fruit about 2 inches long, five angled. 
Pahang at Pulau ‘Tijau, Pahang River. 
The very blunt spikes with yellow bracts distinguish this 
rare kind readily. 
M. violascens Rid. |.c. 334. 
Stems 8 to 10 feet. Leaves 10 inches across transversely 
ribbed and whitish beneath. Spike erect or nearly so, apex 
acute. Bracts lanceolate narrow acute violet or white tinted 
with violet, nine inches long and 2 inches wide, often persisting 
and reflexed after the flowers have fallen, rachis pubescent. 
Male flowers 6 in a single row in each bract, about an inch 
long. Females also 6in arow. Fruit 3 inches long green, 
uneatable seeds + inch long cylindric, 
Common all over the main chain of the peninsula, often 
growing with M/. Malaccensis. Pahang, Perak, Selangor, Sungei 
Ujone. 
Kasily recognized by its acute erect spikes with bracts co- 
lored like a purple brinjal. 
LOWIACEAE. 
A small group of plants forming a singie genus Lowia, very 
unlike any other Scitaninee, being stemless with broad dark 
green leaves like those of a Suswm, and a short prostrate panicle 
of flowers from among the leaves. The flowers are medium 
size or large witb a long almost solid calyx tube three long 
calyx lobes, two very small petals and a large obovate lip, five 
very short stamens, and a short stout style ending in a three- 
armed stigma. Capsule large, fusiform acute with numerous 
flask-shaped pubescent seeds. 
