146 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



12-15 feet long, leaflets pendulous numerous linear acuminate white 

 beneath 3 feet long, 2 inches wide. Inflorescence paniculate decurved 

 branches over a foot long slender. Flowers scattered. Males ovoid 

 i inch long, white, calyx short saucer- shaped, with 3 round lobes. 

 Petals ovate ribbed. Stamens 6. Females, calyx as in male, petals 

 ovate i inch long. Fruit 1-li inch through globose green. Seed 

 globose. Becc. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. II. 152, 164, 13. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. 423. Macrocladus sylvicola Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. V. 489. Palms Brit. Ind. 177, t. 239. A. B. 



Singapore : Chan Chu Kang, Pulau Ubin (Ridley) ; Pahang : Tahan 

 River woods (Ridley) ; Malacca : Ching (Griffith) ; Dindings : near 

 Lumut, Bujong Malacca (Ridley). Distrib. Java. Woods to about 

 1000 feet elevation. Native name " Ibul." 



5. Oncosperma, Bl. 



Tall armed palms soboliferous. Leaves pinnate leaflets narrow 

 inflorescence large deflexed of many long spikes on a short broad armed 

 peduncle. Spathes two very large deciduous armed. Flowers spirally 

 arranged, 2 males to female terminal ones all male. Male flowers 

 asymmetric, petals lanceolate cuspidate. Stamens 6-12. Pistillode 

 large. Females, petals ovate, stigmas minute. Drupe globose black, 

 seed globose ruminate. Species 5 or 6. Ceylon and Malay region. 



Leaflets drooping. Fruit i inch through 1. 0. filamcntosa. 

 Leaflets spreading. Fruit \ inch through 2. 0. horrida. 



1. 0. filamentosa, Bl. Rumphia II. 97, t, 82, 103. Stems 

 numerous about 60 feet tall and 6 inches through grey armed with 

 strong black spines. Leaves about 10 feet long, petiole spiny, leaflets 

 drooping linear acuminate dark green 1 inch across. Spathes broad 

 oblong 2 feet long, 6 inches wide, apex broad and flat, with two rows 

 of black spines along the two keels, inner spathe brown tomentose. 

 Inflorescence 2 feet long, branches about 55 yellow, peduncle broad 

 with few spines. Male flowers yellow. Sepals ovate triangular, with 

 a thickened keel almost free to base, petals lanceolate cuspidate i inch 

 long. Stamens 6, filaments fleshy triangular adnate to the petals. 

 Pistillode large conic with 3 processes. Females nearly £ inch long 

 yellow. Sepals orbicular, petals ovate about as large as the globoso 

 pistil. Stigmas triangular. Drupe globose black \ through. Seed 

 scantily ruminate. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 414. 0. cambodianum 

 Hanco. Journ. Bot. 1876, 261. Areca tigillaria Jack. Malay Misc. II. 

 VII. 88, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat Hist. V. 423. Palm Brit. Ind. 159, t. 

 133, B. A. nibung Mart. Hist. Nat, Palm III. 173, 311, t. 153. 



Singapore: common, Tanglin, Changi (Ridley 3519). Kranji 

 (4163). Sungei Buloli (1663, 3539); Johor ; Malacca : Pringgit and 

 near tho town. Distrib. Cochin-China, Borneo. 



