Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 199 



Corolla hardly twice as long, obtuse. Female spadix shorter branches 

 iiexuous pendulous 6 inches, spikes deflexed distant 1^ inch long. Flow- 

 ers distant spathellules longer. Calyx dilate at base and elongate. 

 Petals free to base, acute. Fruit globosely ovoid, very small i inch 

 long (but hardlv ripe) yellow scales numerous longer than broad. 



Singapore : Woodlands (Eidley 12607) ; Johor : Sungei Tebrau 

 (Ridley 9207) ; Muar : Sungei Semangat (11300); Selangor: Rawang 

 (Ridley 12118), (Fox) ; Perak : Kinta Valley (Ridley 9814) ; Larut Hills 

 3500-4000 feet (King's Coll. 284, 6284, 2647, 6400, 7203), (Ridley 

 11987); Negri Sembilan : Kwala Pilah (Moorhouse). Distrib. Borneo. 

 Native name " Rotan Perut Ayam," " Rotan Kerai." The Rawang 

 plant has transverse ridges like those of rugosus, but is I think C. luri- 

 dus. 



14. C. DlEPENHORSTll, Miq. Journ. Bot. Ind. I. 21. Palm. Arch. 

 Ind. 27. Stem 20 to 30 feet long, stout. Leaves 3-4 feet long, petiole 

 over a foot long, stout strongly armed, with flat acuminate spines irregu- 

 larly scattered, f inch long or less ; leaflets 12 inches or more long, i 

 inch wide linear long acuminate with long scattered black bristles, on the 

 3 nerves and tip, edges thickened ; rachis armed with stout black claws. 

 Inflorescence large and decompound, sheaths copiously armed with 

 black-tipped claws, lowest one with a long oblong lanceolate narrow 

 limb, thorny, branches stout. Spathels in female spadix unarmed di- 

 late upwards smooth with a short lanceolate limb, spikes stout 1-3 

 inches long. Spathellules funnel-shaped, short, with rather a large ovate 

 limb. Fruit globose orange-yellow, shortly beaked, scales in 8 rows 

 broader than long, edged brown, deeply grooved. Seed ruminate ovoid, 

 slightly flattened. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 594. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 

 454. 



Pahang : Tahan River (Ridley) ; Perak : Gunong Tambang Batok 

 500 to 2000 feet alt. (Scortechini 647b) ; Gunong Malacca and Thaiping 

 Hills (King's Coll. 7201, 2552), (Ridley 11411, 11412); Dindings : 

 Pangkor (Ridley 7898) ; Penang : (Wallich). Distrib. Sumatra. " Rotan 

 Koman." 



15. C. SINGAPOEENSIS, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. p. 454. Stem about 

 20 feet slender f inch through green with dusky thorns in semi-circles. 

 Leaf about 4 feet long, petiole 1 foot long armed with scattered short 

 black thorns along the edge ; leaflets subopposite linear acuminate pairs 

 1 inch apart, 8 inches long, ^ inch wide, bristles few or none except at 

 the tip which is pencillate with black bristles. Flagella from sheath 5 

 or 6 feet long very slender armed with recurved black thorns, crowded 

 at tip. Spadix male 6 feet long, peduncle 3 feet long, \ inch through, 

 back rounded, margins back and front, armed with straight black spines, 

 slender i inch long or less scattered (9 to an inch) branches of spadix 

 very slender 12 inches long, spathes and spathels tubular 1 inch long 

 slender, unarmed, with a short limb. Spikes i-f inch long. Flowers 



