186 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



bed. Calyx tubular, ribbed entire. Petals twice as long, oblong, blunt. 

 Stamens 6, filiform, purple. Pistillode of 3 purple arms. Female spa- 

 dix stouter and hardly as long, flowers distant. Spathels longer. Calyx 

 lobes distinct ovate. Fruit globose pedicelled J inch long mammillate 

 yellow, scales broader than long. Edge scarious with an inner dark brown 

 iine. Seed. D. verticillaris, Mart. Hist. Palm I.e. (partly) Becc. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. (partly). 



Singapore : near Kranji, Chan Chu Kang (Ridley 3493) ; Johore : 

 Sungei Tebrau, (Ridley) ; Malacca : Bukit Sadanen (Derry), Mt. Ophir 

 (Ridley) ; Pahang : Kwala Lipis (Machado 11632), Tahan river (Ridley) ; 

 Perak : Thaiping Hills (Ridley 11409) ; Assam Kumbang (Wray 1922) ; 

 Bujong Malacca : (Ridley 9813)-. Native name " Rotan Gulang." Dis- 

 trib. Sumatra. 



24. D. verticillaris, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm III. 329, t. 175 

 (in part). Stems 50 to 60 feet long an inchthrough densely covered 

 with raised rings of flat grey spines, in pairs, one ring of spines point- 

 ing upwards and one downwards, mixed with black bristles. Leaf 4 

 feet or more long terminated by a long rather slender flagellum with 

 distant half whorls of hooks ; petiole over a foot long strongly armed 

 with long flat pale spines in half whorls, 1-1^ inch long spines at mouth 

 of sheath 4 inches long ; leaflets equidistant 1 inch apart, broadly 

 linear acuminate 12 inches long by 1 inch wide, midrib and two nerves 

 prominent, bristly on nerves and point. Male spadix over 2 feet long, pe- 

 duncle long flattened, armed with short, black bristles in tufts along the 

 edge. Spathes 5 or 6, lower one 7-15 inches long, li* inch across linear 

 acuminate, covered with black bristles in rows, upper spathes thin lan- 

 ceolate, subacute, shorter, nearly unarmed, with a few tufts of bristles. 

 Branches of spadis sub-terete eventually spreading ; 2-4 inches long. 

 Spathels tubular or long cup-shaped with a short point ribbed as long 

 as the flower. Flowers alternate single or in pairs, sub-distichous or 

 spiral. Bract cup-shaped deep. Calyx ribbed tubular, very shortly 3 

 lobed. Corolla lobes twice as long ; oblong obtuse. Stamens 6, fila- 

 ments filiform, red, connate at base. Pistillode short red. Female 

 spadix wide spreading over 2 feet long, much branched. Spikes thicker 

 than in males, flowers rather distant. Fruit globose, dark red, f inch 

 long, scales in about 7 rows exactly rhomboid, grooved, slightly resin- 

 ous. Seed globose ruminate. Miq. Fl. Ind. III. 99. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. 470, (partly). Calamus verticillaris, Griff. Calc. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist, V. 63. Palm." Brit. Ind. 73 to 200. 



Johore : Tebing Tinggi (Ridley 11202), Panchur (10953) ; Malacca : 

 (Griffith) Ayer Panas (Ridley 1580), Solandau (10795) ; Pahang : Kwala 

 Lipis (Machado); Negri Sembilan : (Hale), Seromban (Moorhouse). 

 Nativo name, " Rotan Chinchin." Rattans used for rigging. Dist. 

 Borneo. 



