Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 141 



Singapore : Kranji (Kitlley) ; Johore : Bukit Tanah Abang (Kelsall, 

 Serorn, Batu Pahat (Ridlev) ; Pahang : Rumpin River (W. Fox), Tahan 

 River (Ridley) ; Perak : Briah, Larut (Wray 4219). Tapah (Wrav 1425). 

 (King's Coll. 7797, 1968) ; Penang : (King's Coll.) ; Muar : SungeiPauh 

 (Fox). Not rare, in forests to about 2000 alt. 



A specimen from Muar collected by Mr. Fox is unusually large, 

 the leaves 16 inches. Spathe 2 inches long. Inflorescence of 3 stout 

 branches, the flowers partly distichous and partly spiral. 



8. P. SUBINTEGRA, n.sp. Stem slender 3 or 4 feet tall hardly 

 as thick as a pencil lower internodes 2 inches long. Leaves obcuneate 

 enthe deeply bifid at the top, petiole scurfy slender 2 inches long sheath 

 narrow blade 8 inches long 2£ inch wide narrowed at base sides nearly 

 parallel, tips truncate with about 6 teeth, nerves prominent 15 pairs. 

 Midrib scurfy. Spadix simple deflexed 2£ inch long slender. Flowers 

 distant, distichous. Sepals oblong orbicular. Fruit cylindric acuminate 

 narrowed at the base | inch long i inch through. 



Perak : Bujong Malacca (Ridley 9798), Gunong Batu Putih at 3400 

 feet (Wray 908). Distributed by Sir George King as Pinanga para- 

 doxal var. subintegra Becc. but certainly distinct from P. paradoxa. 

 The leaves resemble those of P. subruminata but the stem is much 

 more slender and taller. 



9. P. CALAMIFRONS, Becc. Malesia III. p. 132. Stems slender 

 dark brown when dry, i inch through, internodes 2 inches long. 

 Leaves over a foot long, rachis slender scabrid with brown scale-like 

 hairs, leaflets about 32 very narrow linear acuminate about 6 inches 

 long, inch wide, upper ones toothed dark above, reddish beneath when 

 dry. Spike simple deflexed or 2 to 4 branched, flowers distichous. 

 Males not known. Females sepals rounded orbicular dentate. Drupe 

 subcylindric fusiform, apex acuminate i inch long, stigma rounded. 

 Seed fusiform hardly ruminate. Kedah Peak (Ridley). Distrib. 

 Borneo. 



10. P. PARADOXA, Scheff . in Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXXII. 

 31. Stems several 3 to 12 feet tall, i inch through, internodes 2 inches 

 long. Leaves 12 inches long to 13 petiole 6 inches long or less, scurfy, 

 leaflets 6 to 10 mostly alternate broad 5 inches long 1 wide, lower ones 

 acuminate terminal one broadly cuneate deeply cleft, often unequally, 

 margin truncate toothed. Spikes usually 2 or 3 on a stem unbranch- 

 ed or with 2 branches 3 to 4 inches long undulate. Flowers distichous 

 males i inch long. Sepals short acute. Petals lanceolate with long 

 points. Stamens 6 filaments very short. Females calyx short lobes 

 rounded, petals hardly longer. Drupe red slender curved fusiform o 

 inch long. Seed fusiform, albumen ruminate with 6 long longitudinal 

 lines of rumination. Becc. Malesia III. 129, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 

 411. Areca curvata, Griff. Notul. III. 164, (partly) Not. Ic.Pl. As, t, 



