NEW OE BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 61 



tary spirally arranged -J inch long. Male flowers. Sepals 

 short ovate, blunt. Petals ovate fleshy obtuse. Stamens 

 6. Anthers elliptic broad narrowed upwards white, fila- 

 ments very short. A central tumour represents the abor- 

 tive pistil. Female flowers. Fruit globose half an inch 

 through scarlet crowned with a small circular stigma, 

 pulp thick tasteless. Seed -| inch long, ^ inch through 

 fusiform, narrowed more to the base, light brown with 

 numerous close longitudinal ribs. 



The specimen from which this pretty palm was des- 

 cribed was given to me some years ago by Bishop Hose 

 who had had it .in his garden for some years. He pro- 

 cured the plant at Lundu it is believed, in Sarawak, 

 Borneo. It flowered on being planted in a shady place 

 in ' September 1908, and set fruit in the following 

 February. It is perhaps most remarkable for its globular 

 fruit and narrow fusiform seed. 



ABOIDEAE. 



Cryptocoryne minima, n. sp. 



A very small plant with a rather stout root stock an 

 inch Jong emitting copious roots, and stolons. Leaves 

 ovate to ovate lanceolate subacute base broad rounded not 

 cordate 1 to 1-J inch long j to 1 inch wide, dull green 

 bullate above purple beneath, petiole 2-2^ inches long, 

 sheathing at base. Spathe sessile very small tube dilate 

 at base, then cylindric slightly narrowed white J inch 

 long, limb ovate oblong J inch long dull yellow spotted 

 with brown. Capsule obovoid purple half an inch long. 



Perak: at Tapah, in a muddy patch by the tin mine, 

 covering the mud with its prostrate leaves. 



This very small species is remarkable for the minute, 

 curiously spotted spathes which is very difficult to see. It 

 was only by hunting over the patch plant by plant that it 

 was possible to find them. The fruit is really larger than 

 the spathe and borne on a slightly longer pedicel, that of 

 the spathe being so short that it is almost sessile, I know 

 no species as small as this little plant. 



R. A. Soc, No. 54, 1909. 



