170 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



recurved. Fruit nearly 3 inches long turbinate beaked very dark brown 

 longitudinally grooved, scales numerous cuneate blunt deeply grooved £ 

 inch long. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 472. 



Singapore : Bukit Timab, Chan Chu Kang ; Malacca : Batu Tiga 

 (Ridley 1419) ; Dindings : Gunong Tungul (Ridley) ; Larut (King's 

 Collector). Wet spots in forests " Salak Hutan." 



3. Z. GLABRESCENS, Griff. Calc. Nat. Hist. V. 14. Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 17, t. 179. Stem none. Leaves 12 to 15 feet very spiny, spines 

 broad fiat in short horizontal rows, leaflets close set oblong falcate 

 acuminate subulate apex setulose 8-12 inches long 2 wide with 3 ribs 

 on each dark green, uppermost pair connate with many teeth. Spadices 

 long slender branched trailing, one foot or more long covered with 

 tubular spathe with a lanceolate limb. Young spikes cylindric brown 

 covered with very crowded broad and short bracteoles, giving them an 

 appearance of being ringed. Male flowers rather smaller than females 

 Females f inch long. Calyx lobes broad lanceolate obtuse free about 

 half way down. Corolla ovate lanceolate falcate lobes lanceolate obtuse, 

 very stiff little longer than calyx. Pistil densely covered with long 

 whitish hairs or bristles. Fruit fusiform globose narrowed into a deep 

 an inch long. Scales in vertical rows small T V inch long dark brown 

 ending in up-curved points margins irregular. Seeds 2 separated by a 

 transverse partition, inner face flat outer rounded. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI. 473. 



Selangor : Kwala Lumpur, Ulu Selangor ; Penang Hill, Road to 

 Balik Pulau (Curtis) ; Pahang : Tahan River Woods. 



4. Z. WALLICIIIANA, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 200, 325, t. 

 118, 119. Stems short and stout. Loaves 8 to 20 feet long, rachis 

 stout armed with long flattened thorns 2-3 together, leaflets elliptic 

 acuminate at both ends clustered in groups of 2 to 4 dark green, apices 

 setaceous, margins setulose nerves 3 prominent, and 9 secondary, 12 to 



inches long 3 inches wide. Male inflorescence 4 feet long, peduncle 

 over 2 feet rather slender with 3 empty sheaths, spathes lanceolate 

 split 4 inches villous. Spikes about 7 distant 2fc to 3 inches long cylin- 

 dric blunt, shortly peduncled. Bracteoles ovate short ribbed. Flowers 

 \ inch long. Calyx lobes linear lanceolate free to the base. Corolla 

 half as long again lobes linear obtuso. Stamens with short oblong 

 anthers. Fruit obovoid in dense heads, brown scales with long reflex- 

 ed brittle points, 1-3 celled, 1 inch long. Kurz. Flor. For. II. 511. GO. 

 Z. edulis Wall. PI. As. Ear. III. 14, t. 222-224, (not of Blume) Z. 

 Bumphii Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 8. Palm. Brit. Ind. 10, t. 

 175. Bl. Rumphia II. 159. Z. macros tachy a Griff. I.e. 13, t. 178. 

 A.B.O. Becc. I.e. 66. 



Pahang:Tahan River (Ridley); Malacca: Ching (Griffith); Pro- 

 vince Wellesley: Permatang Bertam (Ridley 7003), Bukit Juru. 



