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Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



Native of Singapore and Pulo Pinang. 



Root thick and tuberous, sending out a number of fibres. 

 Leaves nearly two feet long, numerous, radical, erect, 

 petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, smooth. Petioles 

 sheathing at the base. Scape erect, round, nearly as long 

 as the leaves, striated, smooth. Flowers peduncled, all 

 drooping to one side; peduncles subumbellate, arranged 

 transversely in two parallel rows, and uniting into a kind of 

 crest, from which proceed ten long pendulous filaments. 

 Involucre two-leaved, leaflets ovate, acute, broad at the 

 base, nervose, purplish, twice as long as the peduncles, 

 the upper one erect, the lower reflexed, and bent down 

 by the drooping flowers. From within the upper leaflet 

 of the involucre spring two erect folioles, which are twice 

 as long as the involucre, obovate, attenuated below into 

 straight, flat, deep purple petiolar ungues, acute at the apex, 

 pale coloured with purplish nerves. Perianth superior, 

 of a dark purple colour, campanulate and somewhat ven- 

 tricose, rather contracted and three-cornered at the mouth 

 where it is also striated, limb six-parted, somewhat reflex, 

 lacinise hyaline oblong, broad, obtuse, the three interior 

 ones larger. Corolla none. Stamina six, in the bottom 

 of the perianth and opposite to the lacini^. Filaments 

 broad at the base, arching upwards into a vaulted cucullus 

 within which the anthers are concealed. Anthers adnate, 

 tw^o-lobed. Style thick, shorter than the stamina, with six 

 prominent angles. Stigma flat, umbilicate, orbicular, six- 

 rayed, three-alternate sinuses deeper. Berry ovate, six- 

 angled one-celled, seeds numerous, attached to three parietal 

 receptacles. 



Obs, — This approaches to T. integrifolia, Curt, Mag: 

 t, 1488, but it is a much larger plant, and is abundant- 

 ly distinguished by the two-leaved involucre, the long 

 erect leaflets within it, and the flowers drooping to one 

 side. 



