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Habitat — Tenasserim : Bithoko rr^nge, between the \'unzaliu 

 and the Salween at Great Rapids, 3,000 feet elevation. 



PLECrOCOMIA ASSAMICA, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 07, 

 Palms Brit. lud. 107, t. 218, a; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 199, t. 17G 

 f. 11. 



Leaves very large; leaflets 18-24 inches long, 2-2^ inches; 

 broad, white, finely furfuraceous beneath, tip not thread-like, ribs 

 slender, lateral ribs marginal; petiole 1^ inch broad, with short, 

 stout, marginal spines and short, seriate, scattered clusters of more 

 slender, dorsal ones. 



Branches of fruiting spadix 4-5 feet long b}^ 4-5 inches across the 

 large, subacute, nearly glabrous spathels, scurfy, rhachis rusty 

 tomentose ; spathels 2|-inches long. Spikelets 8-10-flowered. 

 Male calyx cupular, 3-toothed, sepals broadly ovate, ^ inch long, 

 petals lanceolate, ^-^ inch long. Fruiting sepals broadlj' ovate, 

 ^ inch long ; petals lanceolate, ^ inch long. 



Fruit, when dr^-, of a rich ferruginous brown colour, about 

 1 inch in diameter, surrounded at the base by calyx and corolla, 

 terminated by a style tripartite almost to the base with subulate 

 connivent branches, one-celled, very villous from the highly 

 ciliate, fimbriate, split, recurved points of the scales. Albumen 

 cartilaginous, solid, its tissue radiating from the centre ; embryo 

 basilar (see fig. 2). 



Habitat. — Upper Assam. 



Illustration. — The tuft of Pledocomia assaniica represented on 

 PL CI grows in the Bot. Gard. of Sibpur. We have to thank Major 

 Gage for the photograph. 



PLECTOCOMIA ELOXGATA, Mart, in Roem. & Sch. Svst. VII. 1333, 

 Hist. Nat, Palm. 199, t. 114 and 116, f. 1 ; Kunth Enum. Ill, 202 ; Blume 

 Rumphia, III, 68, t. lo8 and 163 A; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 479.— C. 

 maaimus, Reinw., ex Blnme Cat. Hort. Bogon. 59. 



Leaves very large; petiole short; leaflets 1-]^ foot long, 2 inches 

 broad, rather membranous, sparsely white furfuraceous beneath, tip 

 not filiferous, costas 3, very slender, lateral costa) marginal. 



Branches of spadix 3-4 feet long, 2-3 inches across the spreading 

 spathels (fig. 3). Spathels 1^ inch long, sub-3-lobed, acute, 

 glabrous. Flowers very small ; cah^x of male minute, 3-toothed ; 

 petals \ inch long, obliquely oblong-ovate, acute. Cal3'x of female 

 larger, nrceolate, 3-toothed, ijetals small, linear-lanceolate. 



Fruit 1 inch in diameter, densely villous from the long lacerate 

 spreading tips of the scales. 



Habitat. — Penang, Sumatra, Java. 



Illustration. — Mrs. Burkill was kind enough to take a photo- 

 graph of the specimen of Pledocomia elongata which grows in the 

 Bot. Gard. of Singapore (Plate CII). 



