Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 195 



of the male flowers from Blume, as the peninsula plant described as C. 

 tomentosus by Beccari is evidently Blume's plant. 



7. C. SCIPIONUM, Lour. Fl. Cochin Oh. 1, 210. Climbing stems 

 very large attaining 70 or 80 feet high, 2 inches through. Leaves 8 

 feet long, sheath green armed scantily with short, flat dagger-shaped 

 yellow thorns, solitary and in threes. Petiole 1-3 feet long armed with 

 distant flattened spines 1 inch long gibbous at base ; leaflets broadly 

 lanceolate 1-3 feet long, 2 inches wide, alternate distant. Flagella 12 

 feet long from the stem below the mouth of the sheath. Panicles very 

 long, pendent, about 12 or more feet, rather slender, much branched. 

 Males with strongly armed tubular spathes with rather distant strong 

 hooks, spathels li inch long, dilate upwards, base nude upper part with 

 short hooks, branches 3 or 1 inches long with alternate distichous spikes 

 h to 1 inch long, spathellules small funnel-shaped unarmed, edges fring- 

 ed. Bracts circular. Flowers green g inch long. Calyx campanulate, 

 ribbed, with a scarious margin and three short ovate lobes. Petals 

 twice as long. Female spadix very long, spathels hardly armed, spikes 4 

 inches long. Bracts densely crowded, flowers distichous. Calyx as in 

 male but gibbous at the base. Petals little longer. Fruit very small, £ 

 inch long, scales black or nearly so shining, in about 5 rows, hardly 

 grooved, seed alveolate. 



Lam. Encycl. VI. 304. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 342. Kunth. 

 Enum. III. 206. Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist V. 35. Palm. Brit. Ind. 

 43. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 138. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 461. C. 

 micranthus Bl. Bumph. III. 53, t. 157. (excl. flowers and spadix). 



Malacca: Ching (Griffith), (Ridley 11618); Selangor : Batu Tiga 

 (Curtis 3765); Kwala Lumpur: (Ridley 1661); Perak : (Scortechini 501 

 b), Gunong Malacca (King's Coll. 7171). Dist. Borneo, Sumatra. The 

 Malacca Cane; "Rotan Semambu," " Rotan Rajah." 



In a plant in the Botanic Gardens, was unisexual the spikes contain- 

 ing males and female flowers in pairs. 



8. C. OENATUS, Blume. Rumphia. III. 58, t. 148. Roem. and 

 Schultes VII. II. 1326. Stems very large, several together 60 to 80 

 feet long, 2 inches through dull green armed with broad flat thorns in 

 threes. Leaves 12 to 15 feet long, base swollen and wrinkled ; petiole 

 stout and long 1 inch across, back rounded, armed with strong 

 flat spines f inch long or less, scattered ; rachis armed with claws in 

 threes or solitary scattered ; leaflets in alternate pairs distant, lanceolate, 

 narrowed at the base. 25 inches long 2£ inches wide above, green, more 

 or less glaucescent beneath, many-nerved with transverse nervules tip 

 setulose, few or no bristles elsewhere. Flagella very long from the 

 sheaths, stout with strong recurved hooks in distant threes, leaves of 

 young plants often flagelliferous, in adults terminal leaflets often abor- 

 tive: Spadix very large 16 to 18 feet long. Spathes dilate upwards 

 about 4 inches long limb acuminate 1 inch long, thorns scattered short 



