200 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



distichous crowded. Spathellules cup shaped pale. Bract shorter cup- 

 shaped. Calyx longer than bract, tubular, shortly trifid. Corolla small. 

 Female spadix about 7 or more feet long, very slender with elegant pen- 

 dulous branches a foot long, thorny, upper spathes very slender, unarm- 

 ed li inch long, dilate upwards, spikes short 1 inch long with 10 or 12 

 flowers. Fruit globose clear light yellow scales in 8 rows, as broad as 

 long grooved. Seed small, slightly flattened elliptic in section, deeply 

 ruminate. 



Singapore : Garden Jungle (Murton) (Kidley 11459) ; sp. cult. H.B. 

 S. from Singapore (Ridley 11515) ; BukitTimah. Johor : KwalaTebing 

 Tinggi, Batu Pahat (Ridley 11206) ; Mt. Austin (Ridley 12590) ; Selang- 

 or : (Herb. Cantley) ; Perak : Kinta Valley (Ridley 9815); Dindings : 

 Lumut (Ridley 10341); Penang: Muka Head (Curtis 765). Endemic 

 in dense forest. Native name " Rotan lago." Used for tying thatch. 

 Certainly near C. Dicpcnliorsti, but much more slender and smaller in 

 all its parts. Curtis' plant is given as C. Diepenhorsti'm Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 but is undoubtedly C. Singaporensis. 



16. C. paspalanthus, Becc. and Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 450. 

 Stem very long, f inch through, purple armed with flat olive-colored 

 spines i inch long, with an enlarged base. Leaves not flagelliferous 3 

 feet long ; petiole over 18 inches armed with long slender horizontal 

 spines li inch long, base gibbous ; rachis covered with red scurf and 

 peculiar red hairs ; leaflets narrow linear finely acuminate, a few setae 

 on the tip and numerous close set ones on the nerves beneath, 12 inches 

 long, £ inch broad, glaucous beneath. Flagellum 40 inches long, very 

 slender with a long narrow sheath at base. Male spadix over 7 feet 

 long, base very stout armed with powerful hooks and red scurfy, branch- 

 es long, slender. Lowest spathe very long armed with short recurved 

 thorns. Spathels very close fitting ending in a ligule sometimes as 

 much as an inch long narrow linear, often much shorter and soon broken 

 up into fibrils. Spikes 2 to 1 inch long, closely distichous. Spathel- 

 lules closely imbricating ovate acute strongly ribbed or not. Bract cup- 

 shaped, very deep. Calyx short tubular, hardly lobed. Corolla twice 

 as long nearly \ inch long. Female spadix stout and long. Spathes 

 and spathels strongly armed with hooks, spikes stout over 6 inches 

 long. Fruit globose shortly beaked 2 inch long, scales longer than broad 

 bombed, dark red shining. 



Johor: Batu Pahat (Ridley 11209); Sorom (11213) ; Perak: Go- 

 ping (Kunstler 577). Distrib. Borneo (Sarawak, Jambusan, Ridley 

 12403). 



17. C. intunescens, Becc. (sub Daemonorops). Rec. Bot. Surv. 

 Ind. II. 222. Stem long i inch through, scabrid, brown when dry, with 

 rather scattorod fiat triangular thorns j inch long. Loaf 2 feet or more 

 long, base of potiule gibbous thorny, petiole 9 inches long, edges and 



