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Most peculiar from its thick stem densely covered with fibre. 

 Native name " Serdang Batu." 



16. Pholidocaepa, Nl. 



Lofty palms with a stout stem and fan-shaped leaves with a stout 

 thorny petiole. Inflorescence very large and stout, on a stout pedun- 

 cle, with a large panicle of sessile flowers, bisexual. Calyx tubular 

 with free points, corolla twice as long. Stamens 6, connate at the base. 

 Pistil conic. Drupe large globose, pericarp fleshy or testaceous seed 

 large globose ruminate. Species several Malayan. 



P. MACEOCARPA, Becc. Males. 91. Stem stout and tall about 50 

 feet. Leaves fan-shaped very large 5 or 6 partite, petiole thorny to 

 the top. Spadix very stout 5 feet long, li inch through at the base 

 with about 8 branches, bearing numerous branchlets, branches about a 

 foot long an inch thick at the base flattened, woody. Spathes tubular 

 closely clasping dark brown, covered with a light brown scurf, limb 

 acuminate. Flowers spirally arranged rather distant. Fruit ovoid 6 

 inches long 4 inches through on short stout pedicels i inch long, brown 

 tessellated. Damp woods " Kepau." 



Selangor : Batu Tiga Petaling (Eidley). 



The fruits vary very much in size and form, and it may be doubt- 

 ed whether P. mucronata Becc, P. mayadum Becc, P. sumatrana 

 Becc, and even P. Ihur Bl. are distinct. 



2. Ph. KiNGIANA, Eidl. Stem solitary 40 to 80 feet tall very stout 

 and hard about 8 inches to 12 through rough with the old leaf basis, above 

 covered with a brown fibrous rete. Leaves very large fan-shaped 

 orbicular stiff 3 to 5 feet across cut to the base into longlinear acumin- 

 ate points, 3 inches wide petiole 6-7 feet long 1 inch through, back 

 rounded with strong conic forms with a swollen black base green with 

 2 longitudinal yellow bands. Inflorescence very large and stout pedun- 

 cle thick covered with several tubular sheaths dilated upwards dark 

 orange brown. Branches panicled over a foot long, numerous branch- 

 lets slender 4-5 inches long. Flowers scattered sessile, i inch long 

 yellow. Calyx tubular with lanceolate triangular points edges ciliate. 

 Corolla lobes twice as long broad blunt pubescent. Stamens 6 fila- 

 ments broadly quadrate at the base abruptly narrowed above sub- 

 connate at base, anthers small elliptic. Pistil conic pubescent above 

 style cylindric Drupe globular with a lateral groove 2 inches through 

 dark green with scattered warty spots, pericarp fleshy i inch thick 

 green passing into orange inside. Seed globular tessellate 1 inch 

 through, albumen sub-ruminate. L iv is tona King iana Becc. Males. III. 

 199. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 435. 



Singapore : Bukit Mandai, Chua Chu Kang (Ridley) ; Johor : Batu 

 Pahat (Machado Herb. H. Sing. No. 11351); Selangor: common, Jugra 



