Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 193 



(Hist. Palm III. 334) quoted as C. paniculatus Mart, in Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 I.e. Neither Beccari nor Hooker had seen Gaudichaud's plant and as the 

 description is a mixture and very inadequate for identification it would 

 perhaps have been better to have disregarded Martius' description al- 

 together. Curtis' specimen is in a young state, and the plant has only 

 been collected once, and I have failed to rediscover it on West Hill. 

 It resembles Martius' figure of C. equestris. 



3 C. filipendulus, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 443. Stem 15 to 

 30 feet long, i to f inch through, sheaths armed with flat triangular 

 spines. Leaf 3 to 4 feet long, petiole 3 to 7 inches long, back rounded, 

 edge armed with sharp slender spines g inch long, leaflets 3 pairs, upper 

 pair connate, lowest pair not deflexed, oblanceolate, narrowed at the 

 base 10-24 inches long, 3 inches across glabrous apex subacute ; rachis 

 triangular. Spadix slender, over 4 feet long with long slender branches, 

 18 inches long, lower spathe flattened slender with few or no thorns, 

 upper ones and internodes with small recurved thorns, spathels roughly 

 scabrid. Branches 1-2 inches long with short spikes i-| inch long. 

 Spathellules scabrid rough. Male flowers ; calyx cylindric bluntly lobed 

 ribbed. Petals 3 times as long, rather narrow, yellow white, Fruit ±- 

 f inches through creamy white. 



Selangor : Bawang (Ridley 7891) ; Perak : Batang Padang river 

 (King's Coll. 8019) ; Chanderiang (King's Coll. 5659). Endemic and rare. 



4. C. INSIGNIS, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 58. Palm Brit. 

 Ind. 69. Stems few 70 to 80 feet long i to I inch through, light green, 

 sheaths armed with scattered thorns half an inch long or less, with 

 broad conic bases and black tips ; petiole 3 to 5 inches long, slender not 

 swollen at the base, thorns slightly hooked ; leaf blade a foot or more 

 long, rachis slender, with sharp hooks pale at base, tips black, single or 

 paired, leaflets 4 to 9 oblanceolate dark green, papery with a thickened 

 edge cuspidate 8 inches long by 2 inches wide, nerves 6 or more, trans- 

 verse nervules conspicuous when dry. Flagella very slender from the 

 leaf sheath 2 or more feet long with no sheaths, thorns in groups of 

 three, hooked (black-tipped). Spadix very slender 2o feet long, armed 

 with hooks, branches few 6 inches long with remote spikes an inch 

 long. Spathes tubular slender, distant armed with hooks, spathels 

 tubular with few or no thorns. Male inflorescence not known. Female 

 flowers about 10 in a spike rather distant, spathels cup-shaped smooth 

 with a round mouth. Fruit globose f inch long, shortly beaked yellow, 

 scales rhomboid in about 13 rows, convex edges paler. Becc. and Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 459. 



C. spathulatus, Becc. and Hook. fil. l.c.c. (excl. var. robustus). 

 Singapore: Bukit Timah, Bukit Mandai, Garden Jungle (Ridley); 

 Johor : Panchur, Batu Pahat, Gunong Pulai (Ridley 11201); Malacca : 

 Selandor ; Dindings : Lumut (Ridley) ; Perak : Bujong Malacca. Ende- 

 mic. " Rotan Batu." Common in forests all over the peninsula but 



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