Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 161 



Distrib. Anclamans. In clamp or dry open country in the plains. 

 Common. 



3. L. GLABRA, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 329. Palm. 

 Brit. Ind. 124, t. 223. Hook. fil. I.e. 432. Stem stout 1-5 feet tall about 

 l|-2 inches through. Leaves fan-shaped, large 16-18 lobed, petiole 

 rather slender over a foot long, thorns at the base only, close together 

 stout with decurved points, leaflets linear cuneate, middle one often 

 much broader slightly erose, the others deeply erose with a point at 

 each side, one larger than the other. Inflorescence over 5 feet long 

 slender lowest sheath broad flattened 8 inches long, upper ones 3-1 

 inch long narrow close fitting, branches about 7, 2-6-partite glabrous 

 from 5 to 1 inch long. Flowers not crowded, on rounded bosses, with 

 a short thick lip. Calyx urn-shaped 3 toothed, petals lanceolate sub- 

 obtuse. Drupe ellipsoid § inch long. 



Malacca: Mount Ophir (Griffith, Eidley 3743), (Hullett 852); 

 Selangor : Bukit Kutu (7894), Bukit Hitam (Kelsall) ; Pahang : Tahan 

 Woods (Ridley) ; Perak : Lumut (Ridley). 



In the hillwoods to about 3000 feet local but abundant. " Palas 

 Gunong." 



4. L. LONGEPEDUNCULATA, Eidl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Vol. 41 p. 

 42. Stem 3 to 8 feet long 1-1^ inch through. Leaves 4-5 feet long 

 lobes 6 or more narrowed at the base and broadened upwards with 

 broad blunt teeth, 15 to 18 inches long 3 inches wide at the top, deep 

 green, petiole slender not spiny. Inflorescence slender 3 feet or more 

 long peduncle broad flattened at the base quite glabrous over 2 feet 

 long, sheaths distant long. Spikes 3 inches long, 4 together. Flowers 

 scattered i inch long rachis moderately stout. Calyx urn-shaped 

 sessile not lobed, petals lanceolate acute, obtuse. 



Perak : Gunong Batu Putih (Wray 254) (King's Coll. 8148). Bec- 

 cari labels this " L. glabra foliis latioribus." Endemic. 



5. L. malayana, Becc. Males. III. 197. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 I.e. 2131. Stem tufted 6 to 7 feet tall nearly 2 inches through. Leaves 

 nearly orbicular lobes about 14-26 linear cuneate median not much 

 broader than the others, teeth short or moderately long on the lateral 

 lobes, 15 inches long, 1-2 inches wide, petiole rather slender over two 

 feet long sub-triquetrous edges not sharp thorny for the lower third 

 only, thorns rather stout curved or horizontal. Inflorescence slender 

 2 feet long branches all simple moderately thick 4 inches long. Spathes 

 narrow limb not lacerate. Rachis pubescent or almost glabrous. 

 Flowers rather scattered solitary on short tubercles, with a small ovate 

 bract. Calyx cylindric, base intruded, lobes very obscure, glabrous or 

 pubescent, splitting irregularly as the flower expands. Petals lanceate 

 thick grooved on the inner surface. Staminal tube not deeply lobed. 

 Style cylindric, ovary often 3 lobed. Fruit globose. 



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