166 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



15. LlVISTONA, Br. 



Tall palms with a stout trunk. Leaves large orbicular, plicate 

 split about half way into narrow lobes, petiole long thorny on the edge. 

 Inflorescence very large with a long peduncle much branched. Spathes 

 numerous tubular. Flowers minute, bisexual. Calyx cup-shaped with 

 3 lobes. Corolla lobes valvate 3. Stamens 6 connate at the base in 

 a ring. Anthers cordate ovary of 3 nearly free carpels. Styles short 

 free or connate. Stigmas minute. Ovules basilar erect. Drupes 

 elliptic or globose. Seed erect ventral surface hollowed. Albumen 

 equable. 



Species 16. Assam, Siam, Malayan and Australian. 



Stem 60 feet tall smooth ... ... 1. L. cochin-chincnsis. 



Stem 3 feet long covered with brown fibre 2. L. rupicola. 



1. L. cochin-CHINENSIS, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 242. Stem 

 60 feet tall or more smooth. Leaves orbicular 10 feet across, lobes 

 bifid long narrow acuminate, tips filiform pendulous petiole long 2 

 inches through at the base 1 inch through near the blade, thorns at 

 base very lai'ge recurved thick i inch long. Inflorescence 4-5 feet long, 

 much branched, branches thick 12 inches or more long much divided. 

 Flowers very small sessile. Calyx minute cup-shaped with a broad 

 base with 3 rounded teeth. Corolla lobes broad. Stamens connate 

 with the corolla tube. Carpels adhering by their styles. Drupe globu- 

 lar light blue £ inch long seed globose. Becc. Males. III. 69. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 434. L. spcctabilis Griff. Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. V. 

 336. Palms Brit. Ind. 130, t. 226. B.C. Corypha saribus Lour. Fl. 

 Cochin-ch. I. 212. Saribus Cochin-chincnsis Bl. Rumphia II. 49. 



Malacca : (Griffith) ; Province Wellesley : Permatang Bertam 

 (Ridlev) ; Penang : (Lewes) ; Selangor : Jugra (Burn-Murdoch) (Herb. 

 H. Sing. 11352). Distrib. Cochin-china. 



In swampy woods and rice fields. Native name " Serdang." 



2. L. RUPICOLA, Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 41, p. 41. Stem 

 short and thick about 3 feet long and 6 inches through densely covered 

 with brown fibre. Leaves about 2 feet across with about 12 leaflets 

 rather narrow very acuminate apex setaceous, petiole slender shining 

 20 inches long nearly ? thornless. Spadix slender much branched, 

 spathes split striate cuspidate dark brown, 2 basal ones 3 inches long, 

 upper ones slightly dilate cuspidate, branches many long slender with 

 many very long and slender sinuous spikes 2 inches long in flower 

 lengthening to 4 in fruit. Bracts at base of branches linear narrow 

 caducous. Flowers very small globose. Sepals rounded gibbous petals 

 similar. Staminal crown with 6 subulate teeth. 



Selangor: Limestone Rocks, Kwala Lumpur Caves (8285); Lan- 

 kawi (Curti ), 



