Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 139 



through, internodes 2^-4 inches long. Leaf 8-12 inches long, variable 

 pinnate rarely subentire, terminal segments confluent truncate and 

 acutely toothed at the tip, lateral ones 1-6 one or many ribbed falcate 

 or falcate sigmoid acuminate, ligule long breaking up into fibres. Spathe 

 elliptic acute. Spadix deflexed simple or tripartite 3-5 inches long. 

 Male flowers pyramidal trigonous acuminate. Calyx very short with 

 3 acute teeth. Stamens 12 filaments short. Female flowers in 3 or 4 

 rows globose. Petals and sepals similar, edges ciliate. Fruit black 

 elliptic or oblong f inch long by 3-I inch through. Seed ovate, albumen 

 densely ruminate. 



Perak : (Scortechini 345a), Thaiping Hills (Eidley), Gunong Batu 

 Putih (Wray 947) ; Selangor : Gin ting Bidai (Ridley 7888), Semangkok 

 Pass (Ridley of 12,122) Type. The plants added to this species in the 

 Flora British India I.e. viz. Singapore (Lobb) and (King's Collector 

 8072) are both Pinanga disticha Bl. but I think the plants collected by 

 myself and here noted belong to this species. 



2. Orthostichantheae. 



4. P. DISTICHA, Bl. Rumphia II. p. 77. Stems several slender 3 

 feet tall or less g inch through. Leaves usually simple obcuneate bi- 

 lobed or with a few broad acuminate leaflets, about a foot long dark 

 green mottled with lighter patches, nerves prominent numerous, six to 

 nine in the lateral leaflets, petiole 4 inches long slender scurfy, sheaths 

 3 inches or less. Spathes oblong beaked 1 inch. Spike solitary 

 (rarely branched) Xi to 4 inches long deflexed green, rachis slender 

 tomentose. Flowers distichous. Males g inch long, sepals short 

 rounded. Petals ovate acuminate. Stamens about 15, filaments 

 very short. Females, sepals orbicular. Petals shortly cuspidate 

 ovate. Pistil conic cylindric much longer than the petals. Stigma 

 capitate. Drupe red 2 inch long cylindric ovoid acute, stigma discoid. 

 Seed elliptic with a few streaks of rumination. Becc. Males. III. 123. 

 Hook. til. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 408. P. bifida, Bl. I.e. 92, t. 113, f. 2. P. 

 maculata Port. Bot. Mag. t. 8011. P. polymorpha, Becc. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 407, (in part). Arcca disticha, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 

 620, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 461. Palms Brit. Ind. 155, (in 

 part). .4. curvata, Griff. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 248 (not tin Notulae III. 

 164). Seaforthia disticha, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm 184. Ptychospcrma 

 disticha, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 28. 



Singapore : Selitar (Ridley) (Lobb) ; Johor : Batu Pahat, Gunong 

 Pan ti (Ridley) ; Muar: (Fox 11,302); Malacca: Ayer Panas (Good- 

 enough 1619), Base of Ophir (Ridley) ; Sungei Ujong : Perhentian 

 Tinggi (Ridley) ; Selangor : Rawang, Bukit Hitam (Ridley) ; Pahang : 

 Pulo Tawar (Ridley 3159), Kwala Tenok (3160) ; Perak : (Wray 2653), 

 Bujong Malacca (Curtis 3347), Gopeng (King's Coll. 4423), Gunong 

 Batu Putih (King's Coll. 8072) (Wray 365); Penang : Government 

 Hill (Ridley 7907) ; Kedah Peak (Ridley). 



