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flattened armed with long needle-shaped spines brown with yellow 

 bases, scattered on the edge and on the back, and with wart-like small 

 thorns with yellow bases, leaflets about 20 in alternate pairs, the upper 

 one of each pair being the largest, terminal ones solitary, dark dull 

 green oblong linear acuminate, glabrous 6-12 inches long, one inch 

 wide ; rachis rather slender laterally flattened dark green subtrigonous, 

 claws in groups of 4 ; flagellum 18-30 inches long, with hooks in groups 

 of 6 numerous. Spadix with a flattened peduncle with slender acute 

 spines on the edge, at first cylindrical. Spathes 6, not overlapping, 

 tubular, lowest 7 inches long, i-f inch wide with short flat irregular 

 processes in lines, lower ones thorn-shaped ; 2nd spathe as long one 

 inch wide thin leathery with a few crests on the upper end, upper 

 spathes subcoriaceous not thorny. Spathels short acute. Male spadix 

 long slender 14 inches long ; spikes panicled slender zig-zag, spathel- 

 lules very small ovate acute. Flowers opposite s inch long, calyx broad 

 cup-shaped with short teeth, corolla lobes narrow oblong. Female 8 

 inches long, branches thick erect, spathels J inch long or less, limb 

 short acuminate margins papery, spathellules short acute. Calyx lobes 

 broadly ovate, corolla lobes much longer lanceate from a broad base i 

 inch long, stigmas long recurved. Fruit oblong J inch long shortly 

 beaked deep brown scales little broader than long grooved with much 

 red resin. Seed globose, warty pitted. 



Singapore : common in forest, Bukit Timah, (Ridley 5785), Selitar 

 (3470), Changi (6672, 6273) ; Johore : Tanjong Kupang (Ridley 6285), 

 Jaffaria (King and Hullett), Batu Pahat, (Ridley) ; Perak : Larut Hills 

 (King's coll. 2593, 6313)^ Penang Hill: (Ridley 10345). Native 

 Names, " Rotan Getah ; " " Rotan Hudang," " Rotan Butong." Dis- 

 trib. Borneo. Dr. Beccari names a plant collected by me at Selitar 

 (No. 6277) D. cochleatus, Teysm. and Binn. Cat. Hort. Bogor. p. 381. 

 Calamus cochleatus Miq. de Palmis Arch. Ind. p. 29. This species 

 seems not to have been described but the specimen so identified is 

 merely a variety with very short spathes and spadices. 



16. D. PROPINQUUS, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 467. Stem stout 

 nearly 2 inches through densely thorny with dark flat thorn 1 inch long, 

 in series. Leaf long, petiole an inch through ; rachis subtrigonous 

 back flat armed with hooks single or three together ; leaflets subaequi- 

 distant rather remote in opposite or subopposite pairs, one to two feet 

 long I2 to wide linear lanceolate acuminate with bristles on the back 

 nerves and tip. Male spadix very long cylindric 18 inches long with a 

 broad flat peduncle, spines irregular \ inch long or less, lower spathe 

 broad boat-shaped elliptic thick 2j-ineh long with long and short spines 

 on the back and ribs, 2nd and 3rd spathe similar but longer with spines 

 on the midrib only, the remaining ones cylindric tubular notched on 

 one side 4 inches long or less, 4 inch through unarmed. Spadix dense 

 and close over a foot long, branches numerous slender strict. Spathels 

 with a broad ovate limb. Calyx very short cup-shaped. Corolla lobes 



