Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 171 



Native name " Kumbar." Distrib. Penasserim, Siam and Borneo. 

 This is quoted in the Flora of British India as having been collected 

 in Singapore and Penang Wallich 5000. Wallich says in PI. As. Ear. 

 he got it in Tenasserim. I have not seen it in Singapore. 



19. Eugeissona, Griff. 



Tufted palms with short stout stems or none. Leaves pinnatisect 

 thorny leaflets lanceolate narrow not flagelliferous. Inflorescence ter- 

 minal erect dense very large, branches short erect, covered with close 

 fitting sub-distichous bract-like spathes passing into bracts and bract- 

 eoles. Flowers large hard textured, solitary or 2-3 together on the 

 ends of the branches, uni- or bisexual. Male flowers, calyx cupular, 

 trilobed, petals lanceolate pungent. Stamens 12, anthers elongate 

 basifixed 1 seed, females. Fruit large ovoid covered with very small 

 brown scales beaked 1 seeded. Seed globose, endocarp bony, aequable. 

 Species 6 Malay Islands. 



E. TRISTIS, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 101. Palm. Brit. Ind. 

 109, to 220 A. Tufts very large. Leaves 15 to 20 feet long, leaflets 

 linear lanceolate acuminate subopposite 12 inches long i inch wide 

 bristly above petiole 7-10 feet all spiny. Inflorescence 4 to 6 feet tall. 

 Flowers 2 inches long terminal on the scaly branches, bracts imbricat- 

 ing. Fruit ovoid beaked 2-3 inches long H inch through brown. 

 Seed globose 1 inch through. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 212, to 179, 

 180. Becc. Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. III. 28. Hook. fil. I.e. 483. 



Johor : Gunong Pulai (Eidley) ; Malacca : Sungei Hudang (Good- 

 enough 1401) (Griffith) ; Selangor : Kwala Lumpur ; Perak : Larut Hills 

 to 2500 feet alt.; Bindings; Province Wellesley; Penang (Curtis 2218). 



The "Bertam" is widely distributed over hills of the west coast of the 

 Peninsula. The midribs of the leaf are used for the blinds known as 

 chicks and also when split and unfolded are woven into screens or parti- 

 tions for houses. The stalk of the inflorescence is sometimes carved 

 into ornamental walking sticks and the fruit is eatable. 



20. Daemonorops, Bl. 



Scandent rarely erect palms, strongly armed, usually forming a 

 tuft of short stems, with a few long scandent branches, leaves pin- 

 natisect, leaflets narrow linear acuminate, rachis thorny ending in a 

 hooked flagellum. Inflorescence usually unisexual, male and female 

 inflorescence on the same stem. Spathes several boat-shaped or oblong, 

 spiny, at first quite covering the inflorescence, eventually deciduous, 

 not sheathing. Inflorescence dense or lax panicled, peduncled. Flow- 

 ers small very numerous often pedicelled bracteate, hard in texture 

 brown or yellow. Male flowers ; calyx tubular more or less three 

 toothed. Corolla tbree-lobed with a short tube, longer than the calyx. 

 Stamens 6. Filaments connate at the base into a ring with broad bases, 



