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CLVIII. AROIDE^. 
[Pistia, 
feed pigs on. Possibly wild in the Batii Pahat River, Johor; the 
Pahang River near Pekan; Perak near Lenggong; Tringganu 
(Yapp). Native name : Kiambang or Kambiang. 
2. CRYPTOCORYNE, Fisch. 
Aquatic herbs with a long or short creeping rhizome. Leaves 
herbaceous or leathery. Spathe tubular with connate edges, 
limb ovate or lanceolate, coloured. Spadix very short, in the 
dilated base of the spathe, Male portion conic, wrapped in an 
involute valve of the spathe. Anthers 2-celled. Female flowers 
few in a single whorl. Ovaries flask-shaped, many ovuled. Fruit 
capsular, or several connate 2-valved carpels. Seeds numerous. 
Species about 25, Indo-Malaya, China, 
Leaves leathery, lanceolate, erect; tidal-mud 
plant ,...., 
Leaves thin, ovate or lanceolate, floating. 
Tube of spathe much longer than limb; limb 
tailed. 
Tail of limb short, limb lanceolate yellow 
Tail of limb short, limb ovate purple . 
Tail of limb longer than the tube 
Tube of spathe as short or shorter than limb. 
Limb ovate tailed ..... 
Limb narrow lanceolate twisted 
Limb not tailed. 
Limb lanceolate ..... 
Limb ovate-oblong, very small plant 
(i) C. ciliata 
(2) C. cordata 
(3) C. purpurea 
(4) C. pontederieefolia 
(5) C. Griffithii 
(6) C. affinis 
(7) C. elliptica 
(8) C. minima 
(1) C. ciliata Fisch. Schott, Meletem, 16; Wight. Ic. t. 775; 
Griff. Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. t. 10-12; Ridl. Mat. iii. 4. 
Tuberous and stoloniferous plant. Leaves erect, leathery; 
petioles 18 in. long, blade 6 to 14 in. long, 2 in. wide, dark green] 
lanceolate or linear-oblong. Scape short. Spathe 4 to 12 in. long, 
limb oblong cuspidate, 2 to 3 in. long, fimbriate, yellowish or purple, 
fimbriae purple. Spadix male cylindric. Female portion 5- to 
7-flowered. Fruit globose conic, i in. through. Seeds 6 to 8. 
Hah. In mangrove mud and brackish or saline ditches near the sea, 
very abundant all over the Peninsula from Singapore to Tringanu 
and Penang, seldom flowering. Singapore, Kranji. Johor, Batu 
Pahat. Malacca (Griffith). Selangor Klang. Penang, Pulaii Belong 
(Curtis). Tringganu (Ridley). Disirib. India, Borneo, Java. 
(2) C. cordata Griff. Notulce, iii. 138; Ic. PI. .ds. t. 172; Hook, 
fit. F.B.l. vi. 493; Ridl. Mat. iii. 4. 
Submerged herb. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, blunt, 2 in. 
long, I in. wide, cordate, olive green above, reddish beneath; 
petioles 6 in. long. Scape i in. long, tube of spathe 7 to 8 in. long, 
white; limb lanceolate caudate, yellow above, fuscous beneath, 
2 in. long, -4 in. wide. Spadix -5 in. long. Male part cylindric, 
yellow above, a curved club-shaped appendix, below a nude portion 
Female portion a connate cone, -25 in. long at base, with 6 rounded 
