Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 157 



var. aquatoriais, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. V 423. Stem solitary about 

 60 feet tall and a foot or more through. Leaves 18 feet long, pinnules 

 cuneate crenulate or serrate upper margin acute or acuminate. In- 

 florescence 12 feet long, spikes numerous 8 feet long. Male flowers 

 pale yellowish green quaquaversal. Stamens more than 100. Females 

 sepals broad rounded. Petals oblong acute. Fruit globose. Seed 

 globose. 



Johor : Gunong Panti (Ridley) ; Selangor : Pahang Track (Ridley) ; 

 Perak : Gunong Batu Putih (Wray 1239), Larut Hills (Ridley 11,401). 

 Abundant in the Larut Hills but very difficult to get specimens of, as 

 tree when in flower is very tall. 



2. C. MITIS, Lour. Fl. Cochinchinensis II. 569. Stems several 15 

 to 25 feet tall, 4 inches through or less. Leaves about 8 feet long 

 sheaths covered with white mealy tomentum 3-4 feet long, petiole 2-3 

 feet, pinnae about 2 feet, leaflets cuneate erose toothed upper margin 

 acute or not about 7 inches long, 9 to 15 on each pinna dark green. 

 Spathes scurfy broadly ovate, obtuse, sheathing the inflorescence 10 

 inches long of 20 or more spikes. Male, sepals rounded green edges 

 lacerate, petals oblong obtuse stiff pale violet purple i inch long. Sta- 

 mens numerous, filaments connate at the base. Anthers linear oblong 

 yellow keeled, not minutely apiculate. Female flowers green. Sepals 

 broad rounded gibbous edged with brown hairs. Petals ovate purple 

 staminodes 3 very slender. Pistil obovoid. Fruit globular flattened £ 

 inch through fleshy purple. Seed 1 transversely elliptic shining wrink- 

 led, albumen ruminate with a few transverse and vertical lines. 

 Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm III. 195. Kunth. Enum. III. Hook. fil. 

 I.e. 423. C. sobolifcra Mart. I.e.. TIL 194, 1. 107, f. 2. Griff. Calc. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. V. 481. Palm Brit. Ind. 171, t. 236. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 III. 41. Kurz. Fl. For. II. 530. G. nam Wall'. Cat. 8595. C.fur- 

 furacea Bl. Mart. I.e. 195. Rumphia I.e. 138, t. 155. (partly). C. 

 Grimhii Becc. Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. III. 15. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Ridley 1662, 1664, 1666), Tanglin 

 (3150), Seletar (1660, 3149), PulauUbin(3148); Pahang: PulauTijau 

 (Ridley 3147) ; Malacca : Ayer Panas (Goodenough 1551), Batang 

 Malaka (Derry 201) ; Perak : (Wray 3744) ; Penang Hill (Ridley 2149) ; 

 Provice Wellesley; Permatang Bertam. Distrib. Burmah, Andamans, 

 Cochin-China. Native names " Tukus," " Dudok." The tomentum 

 on the sheath is used by the Sakais as wadding for the blowpipe and 

 tinder. The stem produces a kind of sago occasionally used by 

 Malays. 



3. NlPACEAE. 



12. Nip A, Wurmb. 



Tidal river plants. Stems very thick prostrate creeping ringed. 

 Leaves very large pinnate leaflets narrow. Inflorescences subterminal 

 on short peduncles covered with sheathing leaves. Male flowers in 



