A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG. 63 
Amorphophallus viridis, n. sp. 
Tuber elongate cylindrical. Leaf petiole 9 inches tall green, 
lamina about 18 inches across, leaflets elliptic, rather abruptly 
acuminate acute, decurrent below, 4 inches long, 1 inch wide, about 
4 pinnae to the lamina. Peduncle 12 inches tall. Spathe 4-6 
inches long apple green, cleft nearly to the base, limb oblong 
rounded at the tip 4-5 imches long, 1 inch wide. Spadix shorter. 
Appendage slender cylindric obtuse 3 inches long, creamy white; 
male portion # inch long, flowers small irregular cream-coloured 
with a wavy violet margin. Female flowers about 20 yellow. 
Drupes 1-2 seeded oblong or subglobose 4 inch long, red. Seed 
ovoid or subcordate. 
Pulau Tengah. In loose screes of fallen dusty clay, and also 
on the seashore. 
Near A. variabilis, Bl., but the oblong green spathe limb dis- 
tinguishes it. 
Colocasia gigantea, Hook, fil. 
Woods, Pulau Rawi. 
CYPERACEAE. 
Fimbristylis asperrima, Vahl. 
Pulau Rawi on rocks overlooking the sea the typical form, and 
also another form with very narrow grassy leaves. 
Common all over the Peninsula. 
Mapania tenuiscapa, Clarke. 
Pulau Rawi woods far up the stream. 
Remirea maritima, MW. 
Seashore at Pulau Adang. 
Scleria lithosperma, Willd. 
Pulau Butong. 
Carex indica, UL. : 
Pulau Rawi, rocky woods by the sea. 
GRAMINEAF. 
Panicum latifolium, Sw. 
Pulau Rawi. 
Oplismenus compositus, Beauv. 
Dry woods, Pulau Adang. 
Ischaemum muticum, a. 
Seashore, Pulau Nipis, 
R. A, Soc., No. 61, 1912. 
