204 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula- 



23. C. EXILIS, Griff. Palm. Brit. Ind. 51. Stem 15-20 feet long, 

 very slender. Leaves 3-4 feet long, petiole 6 inches long armed with 

 recurved thorns on the edges ; leaflets lanceolate linear, acuminate, 

 with a long subulate point 6 inches long, 4 inch wide, 6 nerved, few 

 irregular transverse nervules, sparingly setulose on the nerves or not, 

 tip with pale bristles. Spadix male few-branched ending in a long slen- 

 der flagellum armed closely with hooks. Spathes tomentose, narrow 

 tubular mouth and ovate limb ciliate, armed or not. Branches flexuous, 

 scabrid and tomentose. Spathels tubular dilated upwards tomentose. 

 Flowers solitary or in pairs on the branchlets. Spathelulles short, ovate. 

 Bracts as long. Calyx tubular, ribbed pubescent lobes ovate. Corolla 

 twice as long. Female spadix longer, branches recurved, 2 inches. 

 Flowers much more distant. Fruit oblong, pedicelled by the calyx, 

 beaked h inch long, scales about 9 rows longer than broad, tip rounded, 

 light brown. Seed flattened ovoid grooved. 



Malacca : Mt. Ophir (Griffith), (Ridley 10118). Endemic. 



24. C. CURTISII, n. sp. Stem half an inch through, sheath scabrid 

 thickly armed with pale flat spines an inch longer or less ; petiole 8 

 inches long triquetrous armed with straight pale needle-like spines on 

 the edge : leaves 2 feet more long rachis red woolly, armed with small re- 

 curved hooks, leaflets narrow, linear acuminate, close equidistant with 

 no bristles except at the tip. Male inflorescence 2 feet long, lower 

 spathe margined with needle-like spines, upper ones nude below armed 

 with hooks above, all ending in a lanceolate acuminate limb, scabrid or 

 not. Branches 6 inches long spreading panicled scabrid. Branchlets 

 numerous, slender, spikes li inch or less slender. Spathellules funnel- 

 shaped with an ovate acuminate limb, very small. Calyx tubular, 

 broadly 3-lobed. Corolla twice as long. Female spadix stouter with 

 scorpioid branches and distant flowers. 



Selangor : Kwala Lumpur (Curtis 2392) ; Semangko (Ridley) ; Bukit 

 Kutu (Ridley 7883). Endemic. 



25. C. LOBBIANUS, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. 462. Stem short not 

 climbing, 3 to 7 feet long, the rattan ^ inch through, green with short 

 joints. Leaf sheaths short edged with a thin rugose portion, very 

 spiny, with almost needlelike thorns, 3 inches long, green, spines darker. 

 Loaf about 3 feet long, petiole 6 inches, the upper face with numerous 

 black tipped thorns ; rachis obscurely angled with curved thorns ; leaflets 

 lanceolate linear rather abruptly cuspidate deep green above, white 

 beneath alternate or sub-opposite, with bristles on the nerves and tip 18 

 inches long, 1 inch wide, intlorescence-flagella slender about 4 feet long, 

 green. Spadices with ;i peduncle a foot long or less, armed with long, 

 narrow black spines \ inch long, branches 3 or 4 stout distant spikes 

 numerous, dense recurved. Spathes tubular infundibuliform with a lan- 

 ceolate acuminate point, lower one covered with bristly spines, limb 3 

 inches or more long, uppor spathes shorter and less spiny at the end of 



