480 otemt, PALMES. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Plectocomiopsis. 
slender, attaining 80 ft. Sheaths striate, sparsely prickly, uppermost Uu». 
armed. Leaves 6-10 ft leaflets 5-10 by $ in., finely acuminate, keel end 
bristly above, smooth beneath. Spadices many, from the uppermost | a ndu- 
which bear a simple armed flagellum and no leaflets; lower 4—5 in., We : a hes of 
lous spikes each 6-8 in. long.  Spa£hes short, tubular, like the secon wy KZ, 
Calamus, Spikes flexuous, rusty-pubescent; flowers 2-bracteolate, s brown, with 
minute, inner auricular. Fruit immature; pericarp spongy; scales brown, 
whitish fimbriate margins. 
2. P. Wrayii, Bece. mss. ; leaves petioled, fruit globosely ovoid shortly 
narrowed at the top with about 23 rows of scales. "- 
Matay PENINSULA; Perak, Wray (24219); Herb. Hort. Calcutt. ( ! 
3447 d). . : 
VS near P. geminiflorus ; distinguished by the longer petiole and fruit. 
3. P. paradoxus, Becc. mss.; leaves shortly petioled, leafleta SC 
late scattered in distant pairs shortly acuminate, spadices, poor 
decompound, spathels tubular, male spikelets exserted "mr 30; For. 
paradoxus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. xliii. (1874) ii. 219, t. 24 ONS 
Flor. ii. 521. 
MARTABAN, Kurz. in, 
Stem with the sheaths 1-2 in. diam. Leaves 5-7 ft.; leaflets 1-13 fe M oil 
in alternate pairs, thin, obscurely remotely appressedly ciliolate ; n 10 smooth, 
sheath with pectinate spines; flagellum very long.  Spathes tnbu A stichously 
obliquely truncate and acuminate; spathels similar, but much smaller, 
imbricated ; bracts spreading, glabrous, Fem. fl. and fruit unknown. 
30. MYRIALEPIS, Bece. mss. 
Characters as far as known of Plectocomiopsis, but the ange 
of the fruit are disposed without order.—Species 2, a Bornea 
following. 
scales 
the 
M. Scortechinl, Bece. mss. 
Matay PENINSUIA ; Perak, Scortechini (n. 4579). 
Leaves unknown, Fem. fi. solitary in the spathels; calyx 3-lobed ; ¢ rp between 
longer. Fruit globose; scales acuminate, tips not recurved ; meters from the 
spongy and corky. Seed globose; albumen horny, equable.—Di rer jii. in 
Bornean species (M. triqueter, Becc., Calamus triqueter, Becc., Malesia, 
: are very 
the obtusely angled trigonous sparsely spinous leaf-sheaths. The specimens 
impertect. 
orolla rather 
31. EUGBISSONIA, Grif. 
Tufted monocarpic spinous palms. Leaves pinnatisect; leat 
late; rachis armed, not flagelliferous. Spadix terminal, erect, hes eret 
clothed below with reduced flagelliferous leaf-sheaths ; brane ad brat- 
clothed with subdistichous obtuse spathes passing into braots al Male 
teoles. Flowers large, coriaceous, solitary or 2-3-nate, eur i 
f. calyx cupular, 3-fid; petals elongate-lanceolate, pungent erian 
stamens about 12, anthers elongate, basifixed. Fem. fi. larger  ahnscerte 
accrescent; calyx of the male ; petals with a dilated base an Fruit 0 i 
crest of hairs; ovary oblong, 3-celled, stigmas flattened. les minute; 
narrowed into a very broad obtuse beak, l-celled, 1-seeded, b es embry? 
endocarp osseous. Seed ovoid, 6-12-grooved; albumen equabte; 
. basilar.—Species about 6, Malayan. 
ets lanceo- 
h yrsiform, 
valvate D 
