60 NEW 0E BABE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



This the fifth species of this genus, is distinguished 

 by the small size of the flowers, the extremely short 

 corolla tube only parallelled in I), virgata of Ceylon and 

 the two seeded fruit. 



Schumann in Actoplanes Ridleyi describes the fruit 

 of that species exactly like the fruit of D. -par vi flora, but 

 the rest of his description applies to Donax grandis which 

 lias only one globose smooth m'vd. 



In habit the plant resembles I), grandis but is very 

 much smaller rarely attaining a height of six feet, and 

 with smaller leaves, and shorter erect or subercct panicle, 

 and the flowers are much smaller with a shorter tube. 

 Stachyplirynium parvum, Ridl. In describing the little Sta- 

 chyphrynium minus in the Materials for a flora of the 

 Malay Peninsula (monocotyledons) II. 59, I overlooked 

 the fact that the specific name had already been used, for 

 a Siamese species described by Schumann in the Prlan- 

 zenreich. J therefore substitute the name Stachyplirynium 

 parvum for it. 



I found the plant in immense abundance in Sedenah 

 forests in Johore in August covering the ground thickly 

 in large masses, hut there were no signs of flowers or even 

 of inflorescence. 



PALMAE. 



Pinanga arudinacea, n. sp. 



Stems tufted, several together on a short rhizome 

 elevated on stilt-roots four feet in height, -J inch thick, 

 the internodes an inch long, rings narrow elevated. 

 Leaves simple bilobed with widely divaricate lobes seven 

 inches long, 2 inches wide, acuminate, or (lower leaves) 

 three to four lobed, lobes j inch across, linear acuminate ; 

 petiole 3 inches long, sheaths slightly swollen, purplish. 

 Inflorescence from the axils of fallen leaves patent. 

 Spathe linear oblong, boat-shaped mucronulate 2 inches 

 long. Compound spike 3 inches long with. three or four 

 spreading: branches, the middle one the longest. Raehis 

 terete red. Flowers cream- white in distant pairs or soli- 



Jour. Straits Branch 



