180 Material* for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



midrib beneath, margins adpressed bristly. Spathes and flowers not 

 described. Fruiting spadix pendulous laxly branched with a long 

 peduncle 3 inches long, shortly and sharply spiny. Fruit rather large 

 exactly ovoid abruptly mucronate about l£ inch long, scales shining 

 cinnamon-colour edged fuscous deeply grooved, seed globose. Allied 

 to D. sepal Becc. Perak, (Scortechini) not seen. 



13. D. PSEUDO-SEPAL, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 46-5. Stem 12-15 

 feet nearly f inch in diameter, leaves 3-1 feet long, leaflets not numer- 

 ous inaequidistant dark green very long and narrow, f-f inch wide 

 setiferous on the three nerves above and median beneath, petiole with 

 very short spines except at the base where longer and more slender ; 

 sheath with very long elastic flat seriate spines, mouth nearly naked. 

 Female spadix short. Fruit globose with a short broad mucro f inch 

 in diameter pedicelled dirty yellow, scales few channelled margins nar- 

 rowly scarious, tips discoloured, fruiting calyx not pedicelliform. 

 Perak at 300 feet (King 7975). (Scortechini) not seen. 



§ 2. PlPTOSPATHAE. 



A. Resiniferae. 



14. D. MICRACANTHUS, Becc. Fl. Ind. VI. 467. A tall rattan, 

 stem unarmed except for short transverse raised ridges with an occasion- 

 al short thorn from the centre of the ridge, about 50 feet long \ inch 

 through. Leaf 4 feet or more long ; petiole broad 0-10 inches long flat- 

 tened margined with short pale thorns, base scabrid, sheathing portion 

 2 inches long rough and gibbous at base ; leaflets narrow linear 1 foot 

 long i inch wide alternate, acuminate to a long point with few bristles 

 oxcept at the tip ; rachis triangular with few distant hooks; flagellum, 

 long strongly armed. Spathes linear oblong, outer one armed with 

 transverse crests of flat spines, i inch long grey. Spadix short under 6 

 inches, peduncle 3 inches or more long, the lower half armed with short 

 conic black-tipped spines with a thickened base, branches of spadix short 

 thick angular. Bracts very small ovate obtuse. Calyx saucer-shaped 

 nearly flat with very short rounded lobes. Petals lanceolate ribbed 

 about 4 times as long. Fruit oblong globose finch through, shortly 

 beaked rhomboid rather broader than long brownish yellow, grooved 

 down the centre very strongly resinous. Seed suborbicular flattened, 

 albumen much pitted. Calamus micracanthus Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. V. 62. Palm Brit. Ind. 92, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm III. 339. 



Singapore : Bukit Timah (Ridley) ; Johore Lama : (Ridley 10952) ; 

 Negri Semhilan : Kwala Pilah on Bukit Senaling. (S. Moorhouse) 

 " Rotan " Jerenang. 



15. D. DIDYMOPHYLLUS, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. 468. Stom 

 about 12 feet long, one inch through. Leaflets green with largo and 

 small Hat dagger-shaped spines green to olive-colored, an inch long or 

 less, mouth of sheath not wrinkled or dilated ; poliole 8 inches long 



