62 A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG, 
above the mouth of the perianth tube, attached to the ovary only 
at the base. Stamens subg!lobose white bilobed. Ov ary half in- 
ferior. Style stout free, stigma capitate. 
Rawi island, in fruits, April 1911. 
Nearest perhaps to P. stellaris but with larger leaves, stamens 
completely connate and flower smaller with broader blunter perianth 
lobes. One specimen has the inflorescence bifureating. 
Dracaena aurantiaca, Wall. 
A very large form attaining a height of about feet and 
much branched, in fruit Pulau : 
Dracaena congesta, Ridl. 
Pulau Tengah. 
PALMAR. 
Areca triandra, Roxb. 
Woods on Rawi island. 
Pinanga adangensis, n. sp. 
A tall palm making large clumps, stems 23 feet tall 13 inch 
through, stout: yellowish, tinted red. Leaves 5 feet long, leaflets 
linear acuminate with a br oad decurrent base 20 inches long 1 inch 
wide, apical pair connate at base toothed, 8' inches long and 2 
inches wide; not glaucous beneath. Spathe from below the leaves 
oblong 7 inches long 3 inches wide edges keeled. Spadix six- 
branched the largest branch 7 inches long; rachis flexuous hardly 
flattened $ inch thick. Flowers distichous. Male flowers, calyx 
very small, sepals ovate. Petals triangular ovate cuspidate falcate 
| meh long. Stamens 20, filaments very short. Anthers oblong 
obtuse. Female flower sepals and petals orbicular ovate acute, 
subequal. Fruit (unripe) obovoid half an inch long slightly 
narrowed at the base. 
In wet swampy woods on Pulau Rawi. 
Near Pinanga malaiana, Scheff., but the rachis of the spadix 
is much more slender, and flattened, and the female flowers are 
smaller. 
Oncosperma filamentosa. Bl. 
Woods on Pulau Rawi. 
Caryota mitis, Lour. 
Pulau Rawi. 
Licuala spinosa, Roxb. 
Pulau Rawi. 
AROIDEAE. 
Arisaema Kunstleri, King. 
On rocks, Pulau Adang. 
Jour, Straits Branch 
