194 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



very rarely to be met with in flower. A much valued rattan. There 

 is a short distinct ligule above the base of the petiole. The terminal 

 leaflets are usually connate and the tips sometimes bristly. In the 

 upper leaves the rachis is often continued into a short flagellum bearing 

 a rudimentary terminal leaflet. 



5. C. SUBSPATHULATUS, n.sp. Stem 20 to 30 feet long, | to f 

 inch through. Leaf with a stout rachis armed with strong recurved 

 black-tipped thorns ; leaflets elliptic, narrowed at the base abruptly 

 acuminate alternate 9-15 inches long, 2£ to 4 inches wide, nerves 

 numerous, nervules very numerous and conspicuous when dry, margin 

 thickened, glabrous except the tip pencillate with black hairs. Male 

 not known. Female spadix (fruiting) a foot long, very stout. Spathes 

 unarmed 2 inch long conic. Spikes about 24, 3 inches long stout. 

 Calyx short enlarged at the base k inch long, lobes short, sub-triangu- 

 lar. Petals lanceolate acute. Fruit (unripe) oblcng with a long beak 

 i inch long, straw yellow, scales numerous, triangular, blunt edges 

 scarious. 



C. spathulatus var. robustus, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 459. Perak ; 

 Bujong Malacca (King's Coll. 7136, Curtis 3161);Kinta: (Kunstler). 

 Endemic. I have not kept Beccari's varietal name for this, as for a 

 rattan it is by no means robust. 



6. C. rhomboideus, Bl. Eumphia III. 60 pi. 154. Stem very 

 long 30-40 feet and stout, over an inch through, covered with a white 

 tomentum and armed with very short black thorns conic, pointing up- 

 wards. Leaf very long, petiole stout 20 inches long, £ inch through, 

 covered with white tomentum and armed on the back with a few re- 

 mote black conic recurved shoi't thorns, solitary or in threes in the up- 

 per part, base gibbous ; leaflets 8 to 14 in distant pairs, coriaceous, 

 ovate acuminate, narrowed at the base 10 inches long, 6 inches wide, 

 flocculent tomentose beneath or glabrous, nerves flabellate about 7 

 pairs margins and tip rachis setulose, rachis armed with hooks in threes 

 and fours, flagellum 8-10 feet. Male spadix about 6 feet long, bi-anches 

 stout, spathes cylindric white tomentose unarmed or with a few short 

 thorns. Spathels dilated upwards, with a short limb, spikes 1^ inch 

 long rather than short flowers distichous crowded. Spathellules flat 

 ovate. Bract cupshaped. Calyx cupular, very shortly lobed. Corolla 

 more than twice as long, petals narrowly oblong. Female spadix more 

 lax, spikes longer, flowers more distant, spathellules longer, funnel- 

 shaped. Fruit globose, £ inch long, dark brown scales broader than 

 long, not grooved but marked towards the tip with faint concentric 

 rings. Seed small as largo as a large pea globose. 



C. tomentosus, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. 455. Sungei Ujong (Can- 

 tley's Coll.) ; Perak : (Scortechini 431b) ; Larut Hills ( King's Coll. 5332, 

 6993) (Ridley 11410). Forests at about 3,000 feet alt. " Rotan Tahi 

 A yam." Distrib. Borneo and Sumatra. 1 have taken the description 



