198 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



11. C. radulosus, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 443. Stems 30 to 40 

 feet long, 1-li inch through. Sheaths armed with numerous short 

 triangular thorns. Leaf 3 to 5 feet long, sessile ; rachis rounded with 

 numerous crowded conic hlack tipped thorns, leaflets equidistant, nar- 

 row linear, base narrowed, tip acuminate 10-18 inches long g-l wide 

 dark green, ribs 3 with a few bristles. Flagellum 5-6 feet long. Spadix 

 female 8-10 feet long, peduncle 6 inches long almost covered with strong- 

 ly rugose sheaths, 1 inch long, the upper ones similar enlarged upwards, 

 (the rugosities consist of very short thorns with swollen bases with 

 a large number of short processes mixed with them). Spikes 2 inches 

 long i inch across, recurved. Spathels scabrid. Sepals rounded. 

 Petals hardly twice as long. Fruit small pisiform, long beaked. 



Perak : Goping (King's Coll. 8171). 



12. C. RUGOSUS, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. 443. Stem 15-20 feet 

 long t inch through dark green, covered with close transverse curved 

 rough ridges bearing one or two short flat triangular thorns i inch long. 

 Leaf 4 to 5 feet long, petiole 9 inches slender armed on edges and back 

 with scattered short recurved black thorns, base not gibbous ; leaflets 

 about 24 pairs narrow linear narrowed at base and gradually to a long 

 subulate point, bristles few except at the tip where they are slender 

 and black, leaflets 9 inches long, i inch wide. Spadices male very long 

 and slender 3 feet or more long armed with numerous recurved black 

 thorns. Spathes narrow tubular with a short limb, scabrid or lower 

 ones shortly thorny. Branches 6 inches long, slender. Spathels 

 resmbling spathes. Spikes | inch long. Flowers h inch distichous. 

 Spathellules ovate, nearly flat bracts similar but blunt. Calyx cylin- 

 dric shortly bluntly trifid. Corolla twice as long. Petah narrow, ob- 

 long, blunt. Female spadix similar but rather stouter, rachis of spikes 

 stouter g inch long. Fruit (hardly ripe) $ inch long oblong beaked. 

 Scales dark brown in 9 rows, smooth, margin darker, edge white lacini- 

 ate, as broad as long. 



Perak : Thaiping Hills at 3-4000 feet elevation abundant. (Eidley 

 11314-11315), (Curtis). Endemic. 



13. C. LURIDUS, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 445. Stem slender 15 

 to 20 feet long, dark purplish when dry with strong broad thorns, dark 

 green. Leaves 2£ feet long, petiole 6 to 12 inches long with decurved 

 or straight remote black thorns ; leaflets alternate remote subequidis- 

 tant linear lanceolate nearly 2 feet long, f inch wide acuminate subulate 

 narrowed at the base, 3-nerved, edges and nerves setulose. Male spa- 

 dix 4 to 6 feet long, slender, much branched, flagelliferous. Flagellum 

 slender 15 inches long. Spathes long cylindric tubular, smooth unarm- 

 ed. Internodes armed with black hooks. Spathels dilated upwards 

 ribbed. Spikes f-lf inch long very slender, flexuous, Spathellules 

 ovate subacute, bract saucer-shaped. Flowers not crowded, alternate, 

 very small i' (1 inch long. Calyx short campanulato, shortly bilobod. 



