202 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



19. C. MULTIEAMEA, n. sp. Stem £ inch thick. Sheaths closely 

 spiny, spines flat, some with a broad base tapering upwards 4 inches 

 long others broad and short. Petiole flattened above, rounded beneath 

 thorns scattered short and fairly thick with many small ones ; rachis 

 with many solitary curved hooks ; leaflets linear narrow i inch wide 

 whitish, fluffy beneath, nervules conspicuous. Male spadix over 3 feet 

 long, very slender, branches few distant about 6 inches long panicled 

 slender with spreading branchlets. Spathes close fitting 9 inches long, 

 thorny, with a very long thin papery limb 9 inches long i inch wide. 

 Spathels slender with an ovate limb. Spikes short i inch long alternate. 

 Flowers distichous about 12 in a spike. Calyx tubular with three short 

 ovate lobes, margins scarious. Corolla half as long again. Fruiting 

 spadix very stout, limb of spathellules very large ovate. Fruit globose 

 beaked less than i inch long. Scales rounded tip blunt, light brown 

 with dark tips, grooved. Seed small, flattened on both sides, orbicular 

 rugose, albumen not ruminate. 



Perak : Dindings (Kidley 8405) ; Pahang : Kwala Luit (Eidley). 

 Allied to C. ramossissimus but differing in the long slender thorny pani- 

 cle and narrow leaves. 



20. C. TERAKENSIS, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 451. Stem not very 

 long 2-3 feet -i inch through densely covered with broad flat brown 

 thorns 4 inches long, base broad, and some broader and shorter. Leaf 

 petiole flattened above, back rounded with short thick thorns based 

 swollen scattered numerous ; rachis with numerous solitary curved 

 hooks ; leaflets equidistant, close alternate, narrow linear 7-8 inches 

 long, i inch wide 3 nerved with conspicuous transverse nervules, edges 

 and subulate tip setulose, young leaves white arachnoid beneath. Male 

 spadix over. 3 feet long, very slender. Branches few, distant about 6 inches 

 long, panicled slender with spreading branchlets. Spathes 9 inches long 

 or less, very slender, close fitting, thorny, limb long papery 9 inches by 

 ? inch across acuminate. Spathels slender with an ovate limb, spikes 

 short alternate \ inch long, sometimes obscurely white tomentose. 

 Flowers distichous about 12 in a spike. Calyx tubular with three short 

 ovate lobes, margins scarious. Corolla half as long again. Female 

 spadix shorter with fewer stouter and longer spikes. Fruit globose, 

 beaked, less than \ inch long, scales rounded, tips blunt, longer than 

 broad, grooved, light brown with darker tips. 



Selangor : Bukit Kutu, Bukit Hitam (Ridley 7879); Perak : Bukit 

 Kapayung (Ridley). This plant very much resembles the Tenasserim 

 C. nitidus Mart. (Wallich 8609). 



21. C. LANATA, n.sp. A low growing rattan, leaves about 5 feet 

 long, petiole over a foot long, elliptic in section armed with numerous 

 very short thorns on the back, and short ^ inch, long thick thorns with 

 a thick callus-like base, then slightly flattened and fringed with librous 



