Zalaeca.] Cam. PALMEZX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 473 
pe y 4 i ly 
br acteoles nic I ate Tui L $ i H tely mammillate 3 scales close 
ici D F it 21 b 1 4 1n., cuspida A ` . 
imbricate sh brown. Seeds 1-3, plano-convex. — Descr. chiefly from Griffith 
3 
i 16; Palms Brit. 
iff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 16; 
Verte eech linear-ensiform concolorous tae tony 
sli htl ' faleate fem. spadix large copiously branched from La 
compact, spikes densely crowded much longer than | re Tay ` frat 
turbinate not spinous. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 201, t. 
Males. iii, 67. 
fich. —DrsTRIB. Borneo. . . ‘uncle. Leaves 
Sone a Orit tufted than in others, forming an impenetrable ji ; Spin es short, 
18-20 ft. ; petiole half the length of the blade, stout, flatten subulateracuminate, 
white fascicled ; leaflets equidistant, alternate, 2 ft. by the u pper surface. Spadix 
tip and margins setose, costze of upper leaflets bristly on le ‘ae in pairs; bracteoles 
in, crowded with cylindric spikes 6 in. long; tite mooth, aspect waxy and 
Villous, ° Fruit crowded in a formless mass ; scales qui bite spongy. Seed broadly 
Shining, margins denticulate, tawny greenish ; mesocarp afi ts their bristly costæ and 
turbinate.— Distinguished by habit, direction of the leafle i 
if iti dixes.—Descr. from 
slender short white spines and crowded thyrsiform fruiting spadix 
Griffith. 
iji . 118, 119, 
4. Z. Wallichiana, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. A very Tong altora 
136; leaflets inequidistant falcate oblong-lanceolate vin long factigiately 
Setulose tips, costae naked, male and fem. spadices v Y on feait chovoid 
branched, pikes very distant much shorter than their Poe im Natwurk. 
shortly imbricate, scales with long reflexed points. Bece. Males. ii. 66. 
Tijdshr. Ned. Ind. xxvii. (1864) 216; For. FI. ii. Aen, Mela ii a, 
: edulis, Wall. Cat. n. 5000; Pl. As. Rar. iii. 14, Ew ad i0. e 175. 
if. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 8; Palms i ue 13, and 15, t 178 
Blume Rumphia, ii. 159. Z. macrostachya, Griff. ll. cc. 13, 
» B,C; Bece. l c. 66. 
: ; G and SINGAPORE.— 
D BurMa, Kurz. MALACCA; at Ching, Griffith. PENAN 424 
: i i i oups —, 
‘Stem ants Ban on 0 Leaves 15-20 ft. ; leaflets approximate die, upper cone 
tnd alternate, 2-3 ft by 11-2 in., spinuloscly ciliate with broken spirals of strong 
uent ; petiole 8~10 ft. and rachis copiously armed his woolly. Spikes cylindric, 
Subreflexed spines, Spadices several feet long, Spathes variously ruptured, floral 
Villous, 1i-2 in. long ; flowers small, rose-cold. Spat ad 
tel by tips terminating in a refloxed brits e 
ing Dr more, i dccelled ; scales brown, « Epadices dimorphic, one mal d » 
e, — " Or. , d. ` ` ; fld. 
mt mte athe other manaciong very dec di, and icu i 
4 a clus . 
“out ; each bract I find to correspond to a c acteoles.”” — Beccari. ` 
males or neuters, and with two densely tomentose bracteo! ) is a much stouter foi m, 
` macrostachya referred to JFallichiana by Beccari (m Lin, diam. In Grifith’s 
ith oblanceolate leaflets and spikes 3 in. long and nea ^ the long tapering filiforin 
figure of the whole plant ( Tab. 178 C) the leaves have 1 
+ Wallichiana. 
Vat. Hist. v. 14; Palms 
5, iff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. alen ins 
Brit, i "eener Grif. close set slightly es much longer than 
die filiferous, male spadix much branched, spikes 
e 
, bearing a very 
large solitary is Spain reduced to f aves spike clothed with broad 
dr soli led nodding g 
glabroy tary long peduncled n 
8 imbricating bracts. 
