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The flowers are quite small and hardly project beyond 
the bracts, which in fruit are comose, somewhat after 
the manner of those of a Curcuma but somewhat stiffer, 
giving the fruiting spike a striking appearance. 
Hornstedtia megalochilus, Ridl. Abundant in the damp spots 
by the river, forming thickets. 
Phoeomeria (Nicolaia), Maingayz. Ridl. Woods by the 
Temengoh River, Ulu Temengoh. 
Plagiostachys lateralis, Ridl. Damp spots in streams in dense 
forests, Ulu Temengoh. 
Elettariopsis pubescens, Ridl. Abundant under trees in the 
Kampong of Ulu Temengoh, not in flower. 
MARANTACEAE. 
Donax grandis, Ridl. Common in all the woods. 
D. arundastrum, Lour. Forming thickets by the river bank. 
Stachyphrynium Jagoranum, Schum. Abundant under trees 
in the Kampong, Ulu Temengoh. 
Phrymium lirtum, Ridl. Abundant in damp spots in forests. 
Ph. terminale, n. sp. 
A tufted plant, with elliptic or elliptic lanceolate 
leaves, apex acute base rounded, glabrous 18 inches 
long, 6 inches wide, shining green above purple beneath, 
very fine nerved, the nerves very conspicuous when 
dry, petiole over 8 inches long, the knee 2 inches not 
very thick; capitulum on a peduncle 18 inches long, 
with no trace of a subtending leaf. Flowers not seen. 
Bracts, two outer broad oblong truncate, the basal one 
1% inch long, 1 inch wide with a broad base, the upper 
ones oblong breaking up into fibrils. Capsule shortly 
pedicelled, pedicel 2 inch, oblong truncate with a flat top 
obscurely 3 angled half an inch long, + inch wide, three- 
seeded, minutely pubescent. Seed oblong nearly half 
R. A.Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
