Licuala.] CLXII, PALMEX, (Beccari & Hook. f.) 433 
Stem 3-4 fr., l-l in. diam. Leaves 2-3 ft. diam. ; petiole 4—5 ft., plano- 
convex. Spathes 3-6 in. narrow, cylindrie, the lower a little compressed, mouth 
oblique bifid, tips quite entire. Spadir 4 ft. (in King's specimens), perfectly 
glabrous throughout, rachis quite smooth, furrowed when dry; branches 4-6 in., 
divaricate ; flowers subsessile. Calyx obscurely 3-lobed. Petals twice as long, 
acuminate. Young fruit ellipsoid, narrowed at both ends, keeled, 3 in. long, 
stipitate by the calyx tube and spreading petals, tipped by the remains of the 
abortive carpels. 
IL Spathes compressed, split on one side (tubular in L. Kingii). 
* Spadiz with 2 or more superposed simple or branched inflorescences. 
, 9. Ie modesta, Becc. Males. iii. 195; stem elongate, leaves semi- 
arcular, segments very many narrowly cuneate, petiole very long spinous 
towards the base only, spathes flattened acutely 2-edged glabrous margins 
of mouth quite entire, branches of spadix and flowers fulvous pubescent, 
staminal cup 6-lobed, ovary glabrous. 
Perak; Maxwell hill, Scortechini, alt. 3300 ft.; Larut, King’s Collector (1945, 
1951, 1983, 2420, 3243), l 
, Stem 2-10 ft. Leaves palmately multifid ; segments 2-3 nerved ; petiole 3-4 ft., 
shines short recurved. Spathes 4—6 long by 4 in. broad, flat, glabrescent. Spadiz 
in. ; branches spreading ; flowers seated on small tubercles ; calyx campanulate, 
lobes very short tipped with hairs ; corolla rather longer; style subulate. Fruit glo- 
ly obovoid, about 3 in. long, pedicelled by the calyx.— Difficult to distinguish 
m acutifida, 
10. 1. Kunstleri, Becc.; stem robust, leaves long-petioled, mid- 
“sment not petiolulate, petiole armed at the base, spathe much com- 
Pressed furfuraceous mouth not lacerate, branches of spadix very scurfily 
and rustily hairy, flowers pedicelled pubescent. 
Perak ; on Ulu Bubong, Kunstler (10,205). 
Stem 4 ft. by 4-5 in. diam. Calyx campanulate, base narrowed, pubescent ; 
"e rather longer.—Only a solitary imperfect specimen seen, well characterized by 
em Pedicelled flowers. Allied to acutifida, differing in the robust stem, much 
"iler leaf-segm ents, and longer floral pedicels. 
à IL, acutifida, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 236, t. 135, f. 3, 4 (exel. 
yn. Roxb.); stem slender, leaves many long-petioled, segments 15-20 
Very narrow terminating in long narrow bifid lobes, median petiolulate, 
Petiole very slender shortly armed and furfuraceous towards the base, 
rath X spathes and flowers furfuraceously velvety, flowers seated on à 
: d prominent pedicel, calyx obconic. Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 
' d Palms Brit. Ind. 123, t. 222 A, B; Wall. Cat. 8618. 
ENANG, Lewis, Oxley, Lobb. 
Stem 15-20 ftus 1-2 “n. Siam vds 1-2 ft. diam., segments 1-3-costate ; 
exe Al lobes 3-1 in. ; petiole 18-48 in.; ligule elongate. Spathes paleaceousiy 
Cer 2-lobed, 4-6 in. long by } in. diam., silkily or silverily paleaceous. Spa ix 
2-nate m. ; spikes 3-5 in., simple or forked, adnate to the rachis, ried Ovary 
oboyoj PPer solitary; calyx obtusely 3-fid, pubescent; petals striate. y 
RM SInooth ; style filiform. Fruit 3 in. diam., stipitate by the calyx. Seed 
m ii Imately 9-fid 
` Pusilla, Becc. Males. iii. 194; stemless, leaves pa y ; 
"eck Med narrow, median 3-fid on 3-partite shortly and obtusely 
lateral With very oblique tips having several short and one long 
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