158 THE FERN-ALLIES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



29. S. Wrayi, Baker, Fern-Allies, p. 113. S. KunstlerL Bak., Kew 

 Bull. 1893, p. 14. 



Stems creeping and rooting, 6 in. or more, slender. 

 Leaves of lower plane ovate, triangular, subobtuse/ base cor- 

 date, strongly ciliate, on upper edge very small, of upper 

 plane lanceolate long, acuminate, cusp recurved, edge strongly 

 ciliate. Spike .4 in. long, lower plane bracts lanceolate acu- 

 minate, edge ciliate. Upper plane ovate, strongly ciliate with 

 a long cusp and prominent midrib. 



Peeak, Tapah (Kidley 14024); Taiping Hills, Birch's 

 Hill Wray 6(58, Kunstler) ; Taiping (Ridley 14460); Temen- 

 goh (14465). 



Beddome refers this to zeijlanica, Baker, but though in 

 many plants a general habit resembles this, that species has 

 only the only plane leaves faintly ciliate, and the lower plane 

 bracts are of a very different shape. I cannot separate S. 

 Kunstleri, Bak. 



30. S. alutacia, Spring, Mon. ii. p. 237. 8. alutacea, Bak., Fern- 

 Allies, p. 110. 8. Tansleyi, Bak., Kew Bull. 1906, p. 205. 



Stems slender, creeping a few inches, branches ascending 

 3-6 in. tall, with ascending branchlets 1 in. long with 3 or 4 

 secondary branchlets, bearing 2 or 1 spike. Leaves of lower 

 plane rather stiff, ovate, subacute, not touching below, closer 

 set above, base cordate semiamplexieaul .05 in., upper edge 

 ciliate, upper plane lanceolate long, cuspidate, cusp recurved. 

 Spikes .25-. 5 in. long, rather slender, lower plane leaves lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, spreading, ciliate, upper plane much smaller, 

 ovate long, cuspidate, strongly ciliate. 



Hills, on clay banks. Common. 



Pahaxg, Gunong Tahan (Ridley 15959) Kwala Lipis 

 (Machado). Negri Soibilax, Gunong Angsi (11873). 

 Selaxgoil Bukit Kutu (7829, 7824); Rawang (7821). 

 Perak, Taiping Hills; Temengoh (14464, 14471) ; Kamuning 

 (11871); Gunong Keledang (9576). Pexaxg (Gaudichaud, 

 Xorris, etc. Dixdixgs, Lumut. 



The type of alutacia was a plant collected by Gaudichaud 

 in Penang, which I have not seen, but I have little doubt as 

 to what Spring intended by his species. The base of the stem 

 is creeping for about 6 inches and though often fruiting from 

 short branches, at times sends up an erect often bushy stem 

 with much longer spikes which is usually yellow-brownish. 

 The leaves of the lower plane are usually glabrous, but in 

 some specimens strongly ciliate. The bracts are nearly always 

 distinctly minutely denticulate, often ciliate. Baker's variety 

 spliaero[iliijlla lias little ovate round leaves, rather close set on 

 - the stem, but it is easy to find every grade from the larger 

 almost triangular, oblong leaves to these little round ones in 

 the same locality. Specimens occur too, in which the bracts 



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