156 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



shortly, petiole with a broader terminal one ending in 2 points 18 inch- 

 es long, or more, the leaflets 9 inches long 3 wide. Spathes several 

 linear persistent 4 inches long or less, sheathing the peduncle of the 

 spadix. Spike erect slender 3-8 inches long unisexual. Male flowers, 

 sepals ovate rounded ribbed petals i inch long ribbed. Stamens nu- 

 merous. Anthers linear. Females, spadix stout 3-8 inches long in 

 fruit. Sepals ovate ribbed | inch long. Pistil large globose orange. 

 Drupe globose i inch through, pericarp crustaceous. Seeds 3, elliptic 

 back rounded, inner face angled and grooved 4 inch long. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Brit, Ind. VI. 420. 



Pabang : Tahan River (Ridley 5825) ; Kota Glanggi (Ridley 3156) ; 

 Perak: Teluk Pinang, Kwala Dipang near Ipoh (Curtis 3352), Water- 

 loo, Kamuning (Ridley). Woods local. Endemic. 



D. HASTATA, Becc. Malesia III. 99. Hook. hi. l.c.c. Stems 

 about 3 feet tall slender covered with leaf-sheaths ribbed and with 

 black transverse fibres and usually with brown scurf. Leaves over 

 a foot long, pedicel 4 inches long sheath 3 inches or more, leaflets 7 

 or 8 cuneate oblong or lanceolate acute or acuminate 5-6 inches long 

 2 inches wide often with petiolules as long as i an inch. Inflorescence 

 long and slender with 4 spathes on the peduncle narrow and close- 

 fitting ribbed and scurfy, peduncle 5 inches long, spike 5 inches long 

 male flowers, bud cylindric I inch long, sepals short rounded ; petals 

 oblong, stamens 15, filaments very short, anthers long linear shorter 

 than the petals. Female flowers small, sepals ovate. Pistil globose, 

 stigma discoid. Drupe globular. 



Singapore : Petaling (Ridley 10,342), Rawang (7886), Bukit Kudah 

 (3155) ; Perak : (Wray 3537). Woods. Endemic. 



11. Caryota, L. 



Tall or medium unarmed palms, stoloniferous or not. Leaves 

 very large and broad pinnatisect, leaflets very obliquely flabelliform or 

 cuneate rounded or acuminate at the tip, petiolulate, with swollen 

 bases of the petiolules. Inflorescences produced from the upper axils 

 of the adult tree from the top downwards alternately male and female, 

 the stem dying as the lowest are produced. Spathes short 3-5. In- 

 florescences much branched with long branches pondulous. Male 

 flowers sepals orbicular, petals oblong, stamens numerous filaments 

 very short, anthers linear. Female sepals rounded gibbous. Petals 

 oblong or ovate. Staminodes 3. Stigma 3 lobed. Ovary 3 celled. 

 Fruit globose 1-2 seeded. Seeds rounded elliptic. Albumen ruminate 



Species about 10. India Cochin-China, Malaya and Australia. 

 Stem solitary very tall and stout ... ... 1. C. obtusa. 



Stems several 15-25 feet slender 2. C.mitis. 



1. C. OBTUSA, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist, V. 480. Palm Brit 

 Ind. 422. C. obtusidcntata Griff. Palm. Brit. Ind. 236 A. B. 



