20G Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



broad, edge darkened, seed oblong deeply ruminate. Becc. and Hook. 

 til. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 453. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 340. Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 6. C. glai/cescens, Bl. I.e. 65. Mart. I.e. 339. 



Muar: (Pears); Johor: Batu Pahat (Macbado, Bidley 11382); 

 Negri Sembilan : Kwala Pilab. (S. Moorbouse) ; Perak : (Scortechini). 

 Distrib. Borneo and Sumatra. Native name, " Botan Segar, Perak." 

 A highly valued rattan cultivated by Malays in Sumatra, and Johor. 



28. C. DISTICHUS, n. sp. Stem \ inch thick, leaves over a foot long, 

 sheath armed with flat spines half an inch long; petiole very short l-l£ 

 inch long armed with short strong spines on the edge ; rachis slightly 

 flattened with short thorns scattered over it ; leaflets ahout 10 pairs, 

 mostly in alternate pairs or in fours, two pairs opposite each other lan- 

 ceolate acuminate, 6 inches long 1 J inch wide, acute not setulose ; fla- 

 gellum 8 inches long, strongly armed with hooks in pairs. Spadix 2 feet 

 long, peduncle armed with horizontal straight spines half an inch long, 

 flattened, sheaths elongate little or not armed, upper sheaths dilate 

 upwards with a lanceolate limb. Spikes male distant l£ inch long. 

 Flowers closely distichous rather large, spathellules short and close, 

 sheathing with a large limbed ribbed. Calyx tubular with three acute 

 lobes and a scarious margin. Corolla twice as long, petals lanceolate 

 obtuse. Female spikes longer with more distinct flowers. 



Selangor: Hulu Semangkok (Ridley 12115). 



29. C. PALUSTRIS, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 62. Palm. Brit. 

 Ind. 71, t. 199. Stem 30 to 80 feet long, 2-3 inches through. Leaves 

 8 to 12 feet long sheaths green with a few excavate thorn-like processes, 

 or flat sharp spines, or nearly unarmed. Petiole gibbous at hase with a 

 single or double row of spines, rachis armed with black recurved hooks 

 in distant pairs, leaflets alternate approximate in pairs, rather thin 

 lanceolate 1-2 feet long 3-5 inches across, tip shortly acuminate bristly, 

 many-nerved green (drying brown). Flagellum from end of leaf long. 

 Bpadix male long branched. Spathes tubular armed with short recurv- 

 ed hooks or nearly unarmed. Branches 6 inches long or less. Spathels 

 unarmed, tubular mouth ciliate. Flowers distichous alternate. Spa- 

 thellules cup-shaped. Calyx tubular swollen at base shortly lobed. 

 Corolla twice as long. Fruit ellipsoid oblong rather glossy i inch long, 

 scales trapezoid with a faint groove pale brown with a narrow blackish 

 brown margin. Seeds almost semiconvex grooved and irregularly wrink- 

 led. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 339. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 11458. 

 C. latifolius, Kurz. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Beng. XLIII, II. 210, t. 31a 

 (not of Roxburgh). 



Negri Sembilan : Bukit Buhl (Cantley's Coll.) ; Perak : (Scortechini 

 50b). Distrib. Tenasserim, Andamans. Native names. " Rotan Kum- 

 bong, Rotan Sega Badak." Used in tying beams in houses. I have 

 pnh seen male specimens, 



