184 Materials for a Flora of tlij, Malayan Peninsula. 



Female flowers rather larger. Fruit globose i inch long, scales yellow 

 as broad as long edged brown grooved. Albumen ruminate. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Ridley 10408, 10814, 9205). Jurong 

 (10813); Johore: Gunong Panti, Batu Pahat (11207) ; Perak : Bujong 

 Malacca (Ridley). Distrib. Borneo. 



20. D. LONGIPES, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm III. t. 176. fig. V. 2, 3. 

 Stem 20-30 feet long, very stout, leaves 12 feet long, sheath with very 

 long stout spines, crowxled at the mouth 5 inches long, with a number 

 of black bristles, petiole stout back rounded with very long, flat acumi- 

 nate greenish spines li-4 inches long solitary or few together ; rachis 

 triangular ; flagellum 5 feet long, hooks 3 to 5 in a clump ; leaflets equi- 

 distant or inaequidistant linear to linear lanceolate 14 inches long 1 

 inch wide bristly on the back, tip and edges. Inflorescence with a flat- 

 tened two-edged unarmed peduncle over a foot long, branches numerous 

 branchlets slender dense, spikes flexuous. Spathes tubular, cylindric, 

 spathels smooth mouth with a simple ring, spathellules saucer-shaped 

 limbs spreading. Flowers small. Male flowers. Calyx tubular ribbed. 

 Corolla lobes smooth blunt. Females branches wide spreading, calyx 

 tubular ribbed shortly 3 lobed. Corolla not much larger. Fruit ellipsoid 

 oblong mammillate f inch long, yellowish, scales a little longer than 

 broad, in 14 rows channelled. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 93. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. 471. D. strictus, Bl. Rumphia III. 19, 163 A. B. Mart. 

 I.e. 326. Calamus longipes, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 68. Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 178, t. 203 A. B. C. strictus, Miq. Palm. Arch. Ind. 28. 



Singapore : Chan Chu Rang (Ridley 3490, 6299), Changi (3496), 

 Bukit Timah (6902) ; Johore: Tanjong Kopang (Ridley 6284), Sungei 

 Tebrau, Muar, (Feilding) ; Malacca : (Griffith), Selandau (Ridley 10794); 

 Penang : (Fox). Native names, " Rotan Machap," " Rotan Chochor," 

 " Rotan Sepah." 



21. D. geniculatus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm TIL 329. Stem 20 feet 

 long an inch or more through densely thorny. Spines mostly fine, flat 

 and pale, some slender and longer, those round the mouth of the sheath 

 very long, erect 2 inches. Leaves large 12 feet long, petiole stout 2 

 feet lon^ an inch across, back rounded spines in short rows on the back 

 usually one long several smaller, greenish flattened ; rachis stout with 

 short black tipped hooks 4 or 5 in a clump; flagellum 6 feet stout with 

 powerful claws in clumps ; leaflets linear, lanceolate equidistant, sub- 

 opposite 14 inches long H inch wide. Female spadix stout 18 inches 

 Long, compact, branches stout, spathes papery IS inches long smooth, 

 keeled, acuminate, branches 6 inches long, spikes undulate stout, 

 spathels mealy bracts ovate orbicular. Calyx cup-shaped ribbed. 

 Petals about twice as long. Fruit globose f inch long, scales yellowish 

 brown longer than broad, channelled, edge duiker. Seed globose pitted. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I II. 39. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 470 (partly). 

 Calamis geniculatus, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 67. Palm. Brit. 

 Ind. 77, t. 202 A. I). Miq. Palm Arch. Ind. 28, 



