Licuala.] CLXIII. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 431 
MALACCA; Grifith. PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector, 7339, 8534.— 
Disrriz, Siam. 
Stem 4-10 ft. 3-9 in. diam., smooth. Leaves 3 ft. diam.; petiole 1-2 ft., spines 
few short, recurved ; sheaths very fibrous. Spathes $ in. broad, mouths lacerate. 
Spadiz very stout ; branches 4-8 in., spreading and recurved ; flowers sessile. Calyx 
cup-shaped, 4, in. broad. Petals ovate. Fruit spherical, 4 in. diam,—Griffith 
observes that this species approaches Z. spinosa, but is abundantly distinct by its 
smooth stem, which does not look much like the stem of a Palm, and by the small 
smooth turbinate flowers, I doubt Kurz’s Andaman plant being the same, it has 
shortly tomentose branches of the spadix and flowers. 
3. L. longipes, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 330; Palms Brit. 
Ind. 125, t. 224 A, B ; stem very short, leaves orbicular about 20-partite, 
Segments cuneate crenate lateral obliquely truncate terminal about 11- 
toothed, crenatures 2-fid crenulate, petiole shortly armed, spathes short 
broad, spadices much shorter than the petioles, branches spreading and 
owers glabrous or pubescent, calyx cylindric, base truncate, petals cordate- 
FL pte, ovary villous. Kurz o Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 204; For. 
. li. 598. 
TENASSERIM ; forests in Mergui. Maracca, Griffith, Kurz. 
Leaves 3-4 it. diam. ; petiole 4-5 ft., trigonous, deeply channelled above, 
glabrous ; spines very variable in size and number, but never long. Spathes 3-6 in, 
fot” by 1 in. broad, compressed, deeply lacerate at the mouth. Spadix stout and 
weie Sparsely or sometimes densely pubescent; branches stout, curved and spread- 
mg; flowers sessile. Jalyx shortly lobed, lobes 2-fid. Petals very short. Ovary 
villous, Pruit seated on the pedicel-like perianth.—The cylindric calyx with a broad 
truncate base is a good character. 
.* Spadix with 3-6 digitately branched or forked inflorescences. 
t Branches of spadix and flowers pubescent or scurfy. 
4. X. Spinosa, Wurmb. in Verh. Bat. Genoolsch. ii. 469; leaves 
hicular-reniform sub 18-partite, lateral segments obliquely premorse 
“lobed or 2-partite, median 10-11-lobed, petiole armed throughout, spadix 
many finely pubescent dense-fld. spikes and flowers, fruiting calyx 
jumpanulate, petals very small, ovary glabrous, fruit obovoid. Ros. d 7. 
"t 1.181 P. (exel, syn. Rumph.); Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. an 
Pat Brit. Ind. 119; Blume -Rumph. ii. 39, t. 82, 88: Mart. Hist. Na . 
alm, ii. 235, 318, t. 135, 1, 2; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. in. 533 Suppl. 254. 
Pon" Males. iii. 74, 1. paludosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 528; 
"e FL ii, 528. p, ramosa, Bl. in Schult, Syst. vii. 1303; Rumphia, n. 39. 
horrida, Blume Rumph. ii, 41, t. 89, f. 1: Mart. Le 237, 318. 
L urz d Mal: 
Me Grën. Anpaman IsrawDs, Kurz, Man.—Disrrin. Malay 
leg Stems 8-10 ft., stout, 2-4 in. diam., densely tufted, rough with sears of fallen 
Ln Leaves 4 ft, diam. ; petiole obtusely trigonous, spines stout curved; ligule 
m. i Y, 2 in, di: acerate. Spadir 
2 1., scarious, Spathes very long, scurfy, 2 in, diam., mouths lacer P 
Pither lono hi the mouth 
er tha : branches 7— ate to the rachis up to 
of the sS than the leaves ; branches 7-10, adna flovers 2-3-nate. 
Spathes ; lower com ound, spreading, generally secund ; ers iat 
vu lobed to the middle. Petals broadly lanceolate, acuminate. Fruit ohovoid, 
Anda long, pedicelled by the calyx-tube, red.—Beccari (mss.) refers Kurz’s 
man L, paludosa to spinosa, I think rightly (J. D. H.). 
et mala eee 234 ltately digitate, seg- 
yana, Becc. Males. iii. 197 ; leaves peltately digit: § 
nents 20-26, teeth very short broad obtuse, petiole very long spinous at 
