Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula. 175 



solitary or tufted in twos and threes erect and spreading along the 

 edge ; rachis with few or no thorns, when present stout and short 

 usually in pairs, leaflets linear acuminate ; flagella from the tops of the 

 shortened upper leaves and from lower leafless sheaths, slender li feet 

 long with claws in twos and threes hooked or almost quite straight. 

 Inflorescences several among the leaves on short stout flattened pedun- 

 cles thorny above. Outer spathe boat-shaped beaked densely covered 

 with bristle-like spines, reddish brown 6-7 inches long, beak flattened, 

 inner sheath smooth long beaked. Male inflorescence 4 inches long 

 compact, spathels short tomentose with an ovate acuminate limb, 

 spathellules cup-shaped with an ovate limb. Flowers on sinuous 

 spikes, i inch long, calyx tubular ribbed obscurely 3 lobed, eventually 

 breaking up into yellow fibres. Corolla twice as long, lobes oblong 

 obtuse ; anthers very short oblong bright yellow. Female inflorescence 

 with stouter branches and larger flowers. Fruit oblong globose i inch 

 long yellow scales longer than broad grooved edged with dark brown 

 almost cordate in shape. Seed globose f inch long pitted. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. III. 87. Walp Ann. III. 457, V. 857. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI. 466. D. tabacinus Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. l.c.c. D, petiolaris 

 Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 326. Miq. l.c.c. Calamus calicarpus Griff. 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 22. Palm. Brit. Ind. 99, t. 315 A. C. 

 petiolaris Calc. Journ. I.e. 93. Palm. Brit. Ind. 101, 216, f. VII. 



Johore : Bukit Soga, Batu Pahat (Ridley 11205) ; Malacca : (Grif- 

 fith) Bukit Sadanen (R. Derry), Chenana Putih (Cantley's coll.) ; Selang- 

 or : Dusun Tua (Ridley 7878) : Dindings : Pangkor (7897) ; Perak : 

 (Scortechini) Larut, (Kunstler 2537), Gunong Keledang (Curtis 3357), 

 Bujong Malacca (Curtis 3160). Native name " Chuchor Minyak." 

 " Rotan Kusom." The leaves are used for making ataps. 



3. D. microthamnus, Becc. Rec. Bot. Survey Ind. II. 221. A 

 small tufted erect palm, stems less than i inch through, sheaths 

 short reddish fuscous mealy, spines few very slender scattered, mouth 

 bare, exactly and horizontally truncate. Leaves about 6 feet long ; 

 petiole short unarmed hardly swollen at the base ; rachis abortively 

 flagellate densely armed with stout half conic nearly horizontal thorns ; 

 leaflets 18-20 equidistant linear very acuminate, li inch long, a few 

 bristles on the edge and keel, midrib beneath spineless. Female inflor- 

 escences little shorter than the leaves, erect, on a short peduncle, 

 ventricose fusiform, beak i length of body unarmed; outer spathe 

 acutely two-keeled at the base only, with scattered filamentous acicu- 

 lar spines. Fruit ovoid globose, apex conic acute f inch long by i 

 inch through ; scales cinnamon tip fuscous edge paler grooved. 



Perak, (Scortechini). 



4. D. monticolus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 328. t. 173. Stems 

 tufted like an Engeissona, climbing stems slender ^ inch through, 15 

 feet long. Large leaves nearly as long, sheaths armed with fiat thorns 



