Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 177 



narrow linear acuminate close equidistant alternate and sub-opposite 8- 

 10 inches low, f inch wide, margins and 3 nerves and tip bristly with 

 rather long pale bristles. Spathe thin fusiform tapering at the base 

 into a long 4 inches peduncle, thickly armed pale flat narrow spines, 

 body of spathe thickly armed with very narrow spines flat and greenish 

 i to lj inch long solitary and in rows, limb of spathe 8 inches long 

 \\ inch wide, ending in a nude point 3 inches long, inner spathes papery 

 unarmed. Male panicle 6 inches long dense, blanches flexuous hairy. 

 Bracts orbicular cuspidate ribbed. Calyx tubular cup-shaped with 

 three distinct lobes, short, corolla twice as long, lobes oblong. Female 

 spadix in fruit 6 inches long. Fruit obovoid shortly beaked ever an 

 inch long yellowish brown. Scales in 8 rows edged with dark brown 

 broader than long, subtriangular deeply grooved. Seed round very 

 rugose and warted deeply pitted. 



Perak, Larut Rills to the top (Bidley). 



7. D. grandis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 227, t. 173. An 

 unisexual plant, stems several 15 to 30 feet long, 1 inch through 

 covered with thorns in semicircles 2 inches long or less, bases green 

 tips black. Leaves about 10 feet long, petiole about 4 feet long : leaf- 

 lets alternate equidistant broadly linear acuminate glabrous or with a 

 few short bristles on the upper midrib dark green (light pink when young), 

 24 inches long, 2 inches wide ; rachis red when young ; flagellum strong 

 about 6 feet long. Spadices in the spathe narrow or swollen fusiform 

 (very variable in size, 14 inches long or less. Outer spathe boat-shaped 

 li inch wide brown with two keels, spines numerous irregular black flat 

 narrow \\ inch long, beak narrow flat as long or longer than the body of 

 the spathe, second spathe broader than the outer one with fewer spines 

 chiefly on the keels, 3rd broad with spines along the midrib in the up- 

 per part, upper spathes papery brown unarmed. Male spadix 6 inches 

 long, branches 6 or 7, crowded about 3 inches long, spikes flexuous i 

 inch long with 8 flowers or less, all covered with rusty brown mealy 

 scurf. Spathels thin obliquely cup-shaped. Flowers distichous, \ 

 inch long fawn color ; calyx tubular obscurely toothed with branched 

 hairs on the tooth, ribbed ; corolla nearly twice as long tube very 

 short, lobes oblong short. Stamens 6, filaments fleshy thick con- 

 nate below acuminate upwards. Anthers linear dorsifixed lemon yel- 

 low ; pistillode abortive purple. Female spadix as large, branches 

 thicker. Calyx as in male but more swollen corolla shorter. Stamens 

 abortive. Stigmas stout papillose recurved. Fruit globose, not resin- 

 ous, i-inch through, scales broad yellow edged and tipped with brown, 

 about ten rows. Seed, smooth elliptic flattened \ inch across and f 

 thick; albumen deep-nitted. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 88. Hook. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI. 463. D. intermedins Mart. I.e. 377, t. 175. Calamus grandis 

 Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 84. Palm. Brit. Ind. 91, t. 210. 



Singapore : Garden Jungle, Bukit Timah etc". Malacca (Griflith) ; 

 Selangor : Batu Tiga (Kidley) ; Negri Sembilan : Bukit Sulu (Cantloy's 



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