196 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



and strong in the upper part of the tube. Branches fiexuous 6 to 7 in- 

 ches long, stout. Spathels f inch long, unarmed, mouth broad, round- 

 ed limb short. Spikes stout 3 to 4 inches long. Spathellules cup-shap- 

 ed rather large i inch long with a short acute point. Bracts small ovate. 

 Male flowers small crowded. Calyx small hemispheric, petals obliquely 

 ovate, short. Female calyx short and broad, trifid half way, base trun- 

 cate. Petals twice as long. Fruit large globose oblong 1^ inch long, 

 with a short trifid beak. Scales about 10 rows broader than long, pale 

 red tipped darker, tip blunt, deeply grooved at base. Griffith, Calc. 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 37. Palms of Brit. India 46. Mart. Hist. Nat. 

 Palm III. 208, t. 116, f. 2. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 256. Becc. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VII. 460, (var. horrida). C. gigantcus, Becc. I.e. 



Singapore : Bukit Timah (Ridley 11481) ; Johor : Kwala Tebing 

 Tinggi, Batu Pahat (Ridley 11202, 11203); Malacca: Durian Tungal 

 (Fernandez); Negri Sembilan : Bukit Senaling (Moorhouse); Perak : 

 (Scortechini 587b) ; Larut (King's Coll. 3931). Distrib. Sumatra and 

 Java. Native name " Rotan Manau Kelichek." Beccari I.e. makes 

 the Malay peninsula plant a variety horrida of the Javanese form, 

 distinguishing it by its " glabrescent sheaths " (which as Blume says 

 are quite glabrous) the seriate spines and adult leaves 3 or 4 costate 

 and scarcely spinulose. The last two characters (of little importance) 

 are well shown in Blume's figure, which well represents the peninsula 

 plant. I fail to distinguish C. giganteus Becc. Young plants growing 

 in Bukit Timah near the large plant identified as C. omatus by Beccari 

 (11481) have long flagella to the leaves. In neither plant are the under 

 sides of the leaves glaucous in life, but plain green. The plant seems 

 to flower very rarely. 



8. C. Manan, Miq. Fl. Sumatra 594. Stem very stout l-£ inch 

 through. Leaf sheaths strongly armed with flat, acute black spines 

 an inch long or less, in series, petiole very stout, black rounded, front 

 flat, armed with short, strong thorns along the edge, base of petiole 

 gibbous, margin of sheath prolonged into a short broad ligule ; blade 6 

 feet long, ending in a strong flagellum armed with hooks in threes, 

 rachis with strong short thorns, leaflets lanceolate, narrowed at the 

 base a foot long, 3 inches wide. Panicle very large, spikes 6 inches 

 long or less, sheaths of branches shortly thorny or smooth, wrinkled, 

 limb ovate acuminate. Fruit large, subglobose oblong, distinctly 

 pedicelled, an inch long scales in about 8 rows, large yellow or reddish, 

 darkening towards the tips longer than broad grooved. Seed oblong, 

 densely ruminated. 



Negri Sembilan : Bukit Sennling near Seremban (S. Moorhouse). 

 Native name '' Rotan Manok Telor." Distrib. Sumatra. 



9. C. densiflorus, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. p. 445. Stem 10 to 15 

 feet tall $ inch through light-colored smooth, with scattered flat acute 

 thorns pale colored \ inch long, single or in rows of three. Leaf 6 to 



