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processes on the edges, whole petiole when young covered with whit- 

 ish appressed long irregular fibres ; rachis armed on the back with 

 three rows of similar hooks ; leaflets sub-opposite or alternate, numer- 

 ous 7 to 10 inches long, f inch across linear acuminate with a long 

 bristle-like point bearing a few bristles. Spadix male erect, 2 feet long, 

 lowest sheath armed at the base with thorns like those of the petiole but 

 smaller, and appressed, woolly, upper spathes similar, but very slightly 

 armed with a few small thorns terminal ones unarmed. Branches 6 

 inches long with few erect branchlets 4 inches longer or less, spikes 1-1 

 inch long, rachis of all woolly pubescent. Spathels short, dilated up- 

 wards small, woolly. Bracts very small orbicular. Calyx cylindric 

 with 3 acute points, ribbed with a scarious margin. Corolla short, acute 

 less than twice as long, glabrous. Female spadix elongate lax 18 

 inches long, with few long branches with distant branchlets, bases of 

 branches clawed. Spathels with a thin tubular and lanceolate limb, 

 glabrous. Spikes distant, flexuous 4 inches long. Calyx and corolla 

 very shoi't as in male, young fruit globose, beaked, dark red, scales 

 lanceolate, subacute, paler at base. Selangor : Semangkok Pass, at 

 4,000 feet alt. (Eidley 12116). Endemic. 



22. C. CILIAEIS, Bl. RumphiaIII.34,t. 147 and 163b, E. Stem 

 15 to 20 feet long slender or as much as half an inch through, sheaths 

 scabrid with minute flat thorns, sometimes with scattered short thick 

 thorns as well, dusky, ligule distinct i inch long fringed with rather 

 long hairs ; petiole stouter, slender with a strong gibbous ridge at the 

 base, scabrid, 3 to 6 inches long armed with slender, needlelike spines 

 on the edge, rachis rufous, hairy ; leaflets close equidistant, narrow 

 linear acuminate 4-6 inches long f-^ inch wide, covered with numer- 

 ous white bristles. Male spadix erect, slender, 2 feet long, ending in 

 a slender flagellum, little branched. Spathes tubular lower ones un- 

 armed, upper ones with small hooked thorns, mouth ciliate, with a short, 

 acute limb. Branches laxly panicled, graceful 4 inches long, rachis 

 scabrid, spikes lax, flowers distant scorpioid. Bracts minute, ovoid. 

 Calyx cup-shaped with ovate lobes. Corolla more than twice as long as 

 calyx. Petals falcate. Female inflorescence usually much larger, 

 much branched 2 feet long, lower spathe 6 inches long, thorny along 

 the edge, median ones unarmed, upper ones armed with short hooks, 

 branches 6 inches long, scorpioid with distant curved branchlets, 

 spathellules trumpet-shaped, all scabrid. Calyx and corolla as in 

 male. Fruit oblong, nearly an inch long, beaked, scales straw colored, 

 at length fuscous, small, subacute deeply grooved, seed oblong, some- 

 what flattened with numerous very deep grooves radiating from the 

 depressed centre. Albumen equable. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. C. 

 exilis. Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. (in part). 



Johor : Castlewood ; Gunong Pulai (Ridley 12201); Pahang : Ta- 

 han river (Ridley) ; Perak : Thaiping Hills. Distrib. Java, Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



