433 CLXIIL PALME. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [ Licuala. 
the base only, spadix elongate, branches many 3-partite spreading pul 
cent, flowers solitary spirally disposed finely pubescent, ca Ts vir 
campanulate hardly toothed, base truncate and intruded, peta 
longer acute, ovary glabrous, fruit globose. 
Perak, Scortechini ; Goping, King’s Collector, 469, 8127. | 
Stem 4-6 ft., 14 diam. Go about 3 ft. diam.; petiole 5-6 fts Gen? 
Spathes narrow, 4-6 in. long by 3 in. broad, subfurfuraceous ; lower "T wéien 
mouth shortly lacerate. Spadix 24-3 ft., branches spreading and curve ke lobulate 
flowers inserted in small tubercles which (in the dried state) are sank in d lagu 
base of the calyx. Staminal cup deeply lobed. Fruit & in. diam., dried pericarp 
than broad, tipped with the scale-like remains of the abortive carpe 8, med only at 
chiefly lacemose.—Allied to L. spinosa, distinguished by the petic ded into large 
the base, the form of the flowers, and the staminal cup deeply divide 
lobes. 
. : ms 
6. L. triphylla, Grif. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 3525 erg 
Brit. Ind. 126, t. 225; stem very short, leaves few flabelliform S idle et 
segments broadly crenate, median narrowed into a petiolule, P «lender, 
long and slender sparingly armed with small spines, spathes ve 3 erulous, 
spadix short slender, branches few slender few-fld. and flowers pu 
calyx turbinate, petals minute, fruit pisiform. (288, 
MALACCA; forests Ayer Punnus, Griffith. PERAK, King’s Collector 
3007). : the 
Stem 3-4in. Leaves with segments 8-10 in. long, of very various bre aay 
tips of the central crenate with very short rounded notched lobes, the later lim. 
premorse and notched ; petiole 2 ft., not } in. broad; spines $ in. Sp d r, branches 
long by i-i in. diam., mouth split, Spadix a foot long, very sende ’ Seed with 
short, flowers Je in. long, scattered, subsessile. Petals minute, ncute. 
a curved internal process. 
: nts 
7. L. ferruginea, Becc. mss.; leaves orbicular 3-7-partite, Pie most 
broadly crenate, the central subpetiolulate, petiole very long iet furfura- 
throughout furfuraceous or glabrate, spathes large broad Ten mentose 
ceous, spadix and its branches very stout thickly furfuraceously 
flowers sessile, calyx cupular, petals very small. King’s 
c JEINGAPORE, Gaudichaud, Lobb, PERAK, at Sunki, 100-800 ft, 
ollector (3041). erel 
Leaves 3 te diam., young furfuraceous towards the base below, segmenta al 
notched as in L. triphylla ; petiole 3—4 ft. with concave face and sides, ‘out spines. 
back, young villously furturaceous along the margin between the short th lacerate- 
Spathes 4-6 in. long by 1}-2 in. broad, compressed, 2-keeled, mout ers sessiles 
Spadiz very stout, with stout rusty-tomentose branches 6-8 in. long ; "Y in. longs 
Tg in. diam., rusty pubescent, Calyx very short, lobes rounded. Frut 
ellipsoidly obovoid, obscurely 3-ribbed when dry. 
tt Branches of spadix and flowers glabrous. 
rit. 
8. L. glabra, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 329; Palms P. 
Ind. 124, t. 223 ; stem slender, leaves flabelliform 16-18-partite, n by A 
linear-cuneate median 2-3-fid, tips with short bifid lobes separa 
broad sinus, petiole very slender almost unarmed, spathes "m 
spadix slender elongate and flowers quite glabrous, branches E pe 
the rachis far above the spathes 4-5-partite, calyx campanulate, 
lanceolate. ta Patebs 
Maraocca; Mt. Ophir, Grifith, Hullett (852). Prax; on Gunong Ba 
alt. 3-4000 tt., King’s Collector (8148) ; Scortechini (319>, 593° ). 
