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the inflorescence and empty, very spiny abortive spathe. Male spadix 

 with short dense recurved branches, the lowest about 4 inches, spikes 

 distichous recurved, dense, an inch long or less, scurfy. Spathellules 

 crowded, with an ovate limb. Flowers green, \ inch long, thick. Calyx 

 lobes almost free to the base, oblong thick i inch long striate. Petals 

 twice as long, lower part striate apex obtuse, smooth, cartilaginous. 

 Stamens 6 anthers linear i inch long. Female spadix with longer branch- 

 es. Spikes short, very crowded. Spathellules and flowers larger. 

 Calyx mostly lobed. Fruit obovate, beaked black shining, over an inch 

 long, scales ovate, rounded in 8 or 9 rows thin. Seed elliptic, nearly an 

 inch long, pitted all over, alveolate. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Eidley 8961), Bukit Mandai, Pulau 

 Damar ; Johor : Kampong Chinchin, Ulu Batu Pahat (Lake and Kel- 

 sall) ; Gunong Panti (Lobb) ; Selangor : Petaling ; Pahang Track (Ridley 

 8776) ; Pahang : Pulau Tawar, Tahan River (Ridley). Distrib. Borneo. 

 " Rotan Manana." Common in dry woods. 



26. C. conikostris, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 461. Stem 10 to 

 20 feet tall 1-li inch through. Leaf 6 to 8 feet long, petiole as thick as 

 the middle finger, sparsely and shortly armed on the back. Upper spines 

 of sheath acicular, 4 inches long ; leaflets numerous, equidistant narrowly 

 ensiform, tips slender strongly setulose, ribs 3, more or less setulose 

 beneath green on both sides ; rachis and flagellum armed with stout 

 recurved bifid claws. Spathes copiously spiny, lower one 1 foot long. 

 Female spadix very stout 2 feet long. Spathels densely spinous, spikes 

 short and stout. Bracts large, densely imbricate cupular. Flowers 

 large. Fruit 1? inch long f inch through, narrowly ovoid with a stout 

 black beak, scales flat brown ; black, smooth seed ovoid rough ; albumen 

 cancellate. 



Perak : Goping, (King's Coll. 4593, 5808). Endemic. Very much 

 like C. Lobbianus, but very much larger, and the leaves green on both 

 surfaces. 



§ 2. Phyllanthectae. 



27. C. CAESIUS, Bl. Rumph. Ill 57. Stem slender glaucescent 

 with distant flat pale thorns f inch or less. Leaves hardly petioled, 

 sheath gibbous, rachis slender with distant short thorns less than 1 

 inch long, flagellum slender with very short recurved thorns in pairs 

 on solitary length. Leaflets in distant alternate pairs, lanceolate nar- 

 rowed at both ends 6-8 inches long by 1-li inch wide, pale green above 

 white beneath, 3-6 nerved setulose at tips. Male spadix unknown. 

 Female spadix, 6 feet long, stout, branched. Lower spathes 8 inches 

 long or less tubular armed with very short thorns with conical bases ; 

 Spathels and spathellules infundibuliform, unarmed, mouths round 

 ciliate. Bract large cup-shaped. Calyx short broad with short ovate 

 subacute lobes. Petals little longer acute. Fruit oblong beaked i 

 inch long. Scales small in 9 rows yellow shining, bombed, longer than 



