Forrestia. ] 
CLI. COMMELINACEJS. 
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Stems stout, creeping ascending, 4 ft. tall, -3 in. through. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, dark green bullate above, purple beneath, 
glabrous, 15 in. long, 6 in. wide; petioles broad channelled; sheaths 
soft hairy, 3 in. long. Heads on creeping part of stem, 1 in. through. 
Sepals coriaceous, oblong, hairy, -5 in. long, pink, green tipped. 
Petals lanceolate. Filaments filiform, spiral with tuft of long hair 
at tip. Capsule oblong shorter. Seeds 2 in a cell, flat, covered 
with scarlet aril. Hab. In rocky forest. A very handsome plant. 
Pahang, Tahan river. Selangor, Batu Caves. Perak, Thaiping 
Hills; Waterloo (Curtis). Temengoh; Ulu Batang Padang 
(Ridley). 
(7) F. irritans Ridl. Journ. Roy. Soc. S. Br. 41, p. 38; 
Mat. ii. 124. 
Stem tall and stout. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, 
hairy all over, 9 in. long, 3 in. wide; petioles broad flat; sheaths 
1-5 in. long, glabrous except for the hairy edges. Heads globose 
over 1 in. through, dense, and thickly covered with red spiny 
hairs. Sepals lanceolate, spiny, hairy. Hab. Mountain forests. 
Not common. Selangor, Semangkok Pass. Sungei Ujong, Bukit 
Kapayung (Cantley). Perak, Bujong Malacca (Ridley). 
7 . SPATHOLIRION, Ridl. 
Stemless herbs with short rhizome (or climbers). Leaves 
ovate-cordate (or lanceolate), fleshy. Panicles terminal. Flowers 
unisexual. Females at base few, enclosed in the spathe-like leaf, 
larger than males. Anthers sterile. Pistil cylindric; style terete; 
stigma 3-lobed. Male flowers numerous, terminal. Sepals 3, 
lanceolate-ovate. Petals linear as long. Stamens 6, bearded below. 
