202 PALMAE juss. (Plectocomia.) 



1. D. MELANOCHAETES Blume in Roem. et Schult. Syst. 7. 

 1333. adnot. Murt. Palm. 198. t. 117. 125. f. 1. /. 126. Cala- 

 mus niger IVilld. Spec. 2. 203? Lam. Encycl. 6. 306? (fide 

 JSlume.) Calamus Rotang (j Linn. Spec. 463? Palmijuncus ni- 

 ger s. Rotang niger Rumph. Amb. 5. 101. t. 52? — Insulae 

 Sundaicae ct Moluccanae, Insulac Pulo-Pinang, Luzonia et Java. 

 — Caudices plerumque plures in radice stolonifera, in 150-160 

 pedum longitudinem protensi, longe lateque super arbores vici- 

 nas vagantes (Mart.), crassitie brachii infantis, tecti, uti spatha 

 externa, setis longis confertis rigidis nigro-fuscis adpressis. 

 Rhachis fusco-tomcntosa , setis sparsis aculeisque solitariis aut 

 geuiinaiis ternatisve patentibus vel deflexis vestita. Foliola 

 frondium pinnatarum lineari-lanceolata, trinervia, setis sparsis 

 obsessa. Spadices laterales (axillares Mart.), ramosissimi, de- 

 mum nutantes. Fructus globosi. (Blume.) 



PLECTOCOMIA mart., exdl. 



Flores tlioeci in spadice elongato, per spicam simpliceni 

 vel ramosam dispositi, sub spathis incompletis squamaefor- 

 mibus distiche imbricatis reconditi, sessiles, masculi ^emin&ti, 

 feminei solitarii 5 1111 : Calyx exterior trifidus ; interior 3-parti- 

 tus, praefloratione valvatus. Stamina 6; filamenta subulata, 

 basi cohaerentia ; antherae liueares, fere basi affixae. Ova- 

 rii rudimeiitum nulluiii. Fem. : Calyx maris. Stamina anan- 

 thera, in cupulam hypogryiiam membranaceam sexfidam coa- 

 lita. Ovarium 3-loculare; loculo uno alterove saepe effeto. 

 Stigmata 3, subsessilia, subulata. Bacca squamis retrorsis 

 imbricatis loricata, 1-locularis, 1-sperma. Albumen aequabile, 

 corueum. Embryo basilaris. Caudex longissimus, sarmen- 

 toso-scandens. Frondes maximae, pinnatae ; pinnis redu- 

 plicatisy r/iac/ii saepe in cirrum longissimum excwrente, 

 dorso aculeis multilobis unciuatis armata. Spadices late- 

 rales^ divisi in ramos iongos, spat/tis coriaceis fuscidulis 

 laxe imbricatis coopertos. Flores ocliroleuci vel rubello- 

 fusciduli. Fructus castanei. 



1. P. ELONGATA Mart. et Blume in Roem. et Schult. Syst. 

 7. 1333. adn. Mart. Palm. 199. /. 114. t. 116./. 1. Calamus 

 maximus Reinw. ined. — Insula Java. — Caudex elongatus, ul- 

 tra centum orgyas interdum extendi dicitur. 



ZALACCA REINW., BLVME, MART., ENDL. 

 Salacca Reinwardt in Syll. pl. in Flora II. p. 3. 

 Flores dioeci in spadice ramoso. Spathae plures partia- 

 les, primuiu clausae, singula amenta teretia involventes. 



