160 Materials for a Fhra of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaflets 3-7 median one petiolecl, cuneate 11. L. triphylla. 



Leaflets 11-16 all sessile, linear. Calyx 



sessile ... ... ••• ... ... 12. L. pusilla. 



Leaflets 10-17 sessile. Calyx pedicelate 13. L. Scortechinii. 

 Small palms. Inflorescence of 1-3 woolly 

 branches. 



Spikes single ... ... ... ... 14. L. Kingiana. 



Branches 2-3 ... ... ... ••• 15. L. lanuginosa. 



§ PERICYCLUS, Inflorescence lax panicled ••• 16. L. paniculata. 



1. L. paludosa, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 233. Palms of 

 British India t. 221. Stems several 10-20 feet tall 2-3 inches through. 

 Leaves numerous, petiole armed at base with short sharp thorns, blade 

 orbicular 7-9 partite, lobes 2 feet long 4 inches wide or less bluntly 

 toothed. Inflorescence 3-6 feet long, sheaths stout 6 inches or more long 

 sparingly scurfy almost entire. Panicles 6-8 inches long with 6 or 8 

 branches, rachis rather thick slightly pubescent. Flowers scattered 

 very short turbinate. Calyx campanulate irregularly split at the top tV 

 inch long nearly glabrous. Corolla lobes short ovate glabrous. Stamin- 

 al crown adnate to petals, anthers oblong. Fruit globose small i 

 inch through, red. Becc. Males. III. 74. Hook. fil. I.e. 430. 



Johor : Hadji Senawi near Batu Pahat (Ridley 11212); Malacca: 

 Tanjong Kling, Pulau Besar (Griffith); Muar : Sungei Segal (Fox); 

 Dindings : Lumut (Ridley 10,329) ; Perak : (Scortechini), (King's Coll. 

 7339, 8534), Gunong Bubu at 4000 feet (Wray 3928). 



Swampy woods usually in the low country. Endemic. 



2. L. SPINOSA, Wurmb. Verh. Genootsch. II. 469. Stems several 

 5 to 15 feet tall grey ringed 2 inches through. Leaf orbicular, petiole 

 about 3 feet long, thorny for its whole length, thorns strong black, leaf- 

 lets 18 linear cuneate over 12 inches long la inch across apex erose. 

 Inflorescence erect 4-6 feet long, sheaths close fitting, mouths lanceo- 

 late upper part silvery scurfy 13 inches long, panicles several 2-3 

 branched, brown hairy. Flowers £ inch long. Calyx cylindric hairy- 

 lobes ovate. Coi*olla lobes white pubescent ovate lanceolate acute. 

 Staminal ring obscurely lobed. Drupes oblong or subglobose i inch 

 long, orange, pericarp fleshv, seed globular. Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. V. 321, Palm. Brit. "hid. 119, Bl. Rumphia II. 39, t. 82, 88. 

 Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 235, t. 135, 1, 2. Becc. Males. III. 74, 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 431. L. paludosa Kurz. Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLIII. 528. For. Fl. II. 258, (not Griffith). L. ramosa Bl. 

 Schult. Syst. VI. 1303, Rumph. II. 32. 



Singapore : Sepoy Lines, Pulo Braui (Ridley 5121), Pulau Ubin 

 (Ridley 3166); Johor: Pulau Tinggi (Feilding); Malacca: (Griffith) 

 Pringgit and elsewhcro round the town; Pahang : Pekan (Ridley); 

 Perak : Matang Lumbu (Wray 25J27) ; Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis 3419) 



