Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 149 



between two males, in spirals. Male flowers symmetric, petals ovate. 

 Stamens 11-15, filaments slender bases adnate to the pistillode. 

 Female, petals larger than sepals. Stigmas 3. Pistil ovoid. Drupe 

 small obovoid. Seed ovoid, albumen equable, embryo basilar. 



C. LAKKA, Becc. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. II. 141. Stems tufted 

 12-15 feet tall, 3 inches through olive green smooth except for the 

 nodes, internodes 6 inches long. Leaves erect pinnate 5 feet long, 

 petiole 6 inches red, sheath 2 feet long red, leaflets linear with long 

 points, about 25 pairs dark green above glaucous beneath 18 inches 

 long \\ inch wide, rachis red. Spathes broad oblong curved. Inflores- 

 cence long deflexed green finally red with 25 branches. Flowers spi- 

 rally arranged 1 female between 2 males. Males sepals ovate green 

 edged red, petals longer ovate green. Stamens 11 (12 or 15), filaments 

 slender bases adnate to the pistillode longer than the petals white. 

 Anthers small oblong. Pistillode thick. Styles 3 base thickened and 

 narrowed upwards, shorter than the stamens. Female sepals broadly 

 rounded, petals ovate much larger green pistil globose. Stigmas short 

 thick recurved brown. Drupe small obovoid black base scarlet, pulp 

 thin. Seed ovoid i inch long, albumen equable embryo basilar. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 414. 



Singapore : Kranji, Jurong (Ridley 3762) ; Pahang : near Pekan ; 

 Selangor : Klang ; Perak : Teluk Anson. Distrib. Borneo. 



Banks of tidal rivers. Native name " Pinang Rajah." 



8. Iguanuea, Blume. 



Small unarmed palms. Leaves entire cuneate and deeply bilobed 

 or pinnatisect with few broad leaflets, Spathes 2 short persistent. 

 Spike simple or compound on a long peduncle branches spreading 

 usually slender. Flowers small spiral, 1 female between 2 males or 

 males only at the ends of the branches, sunk in sockets on the smooth 

 or tomentose rachis. Males, sepals orbicular petals oblong connate at 

 base lanceolate or ovate. Stamens 6 or 9. Pistillode long and stout. 

 Female sepals and petals rounded, petals ovate. Staminodes 6. Ovary 

 ovoid 1-3 celled. Stigmas sessile. Ovule 1 parietal. Fruit oblong 

 small at first white then red finally black. Stigmas subbasilar. Seed 

 suberect albumen ruminate or equable. 



Species 10. Malayan. 



Leaves cuneate, bifid or few lobed. 

 Spikes simple (rarely branched) thick or 

 slender long. 

 Inflorescence of several short spikes ••• 1. I. gconomaefromis. 

 Leaves cuneate bifid, 3 feet long, stem 



stout 2. I. spcctabilis. 



