208 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



nerves fine, transverse, nervules slender, a very few scattered bristles 

 on the nerves. Male spadix long and slender over 4 feet long quite 

 thornless except at the exti'eme base, branches long and few flattened, 

 spikes curved 2 inches long. Spathes tubular lower one a foot long, 

 limb lanceolate obtuse one inch long. Spathels cylindric with an ob- 

 lique mouth. Spathellules very short. Flowers small quaquaversal. 

 Calyx lobes ovate. Corolla lobes much longer ribbed. Female spadix 

 similar very long. Calyx lobes rounded. Fruit small ellipsoid beaked 

 i inch long scales broader than long grooved, light brown with a broad 

 scarious dark brown edge. Seed oblong flattened, albumen not rumin- 

 ate. 



Perak : Larut Hills (5203, 3494), (11413, 11985 Ridley), also col- 

 lected in the same place by Scortechini. Endemic. 



33. C. oxleyanus, Teysm. and Binn. Cat. PI. Hort. Bogor. 1886, 

 75. Miq. Arch. Ind. 17. Stem scandent about 20 feet long i inch 

 through dark green with close set numerous thorns in bands and scat- 

 tered 2 inches or less long narrow dark green the bases yellow. Leaves 

 4-5 feet long, flagelliferous ; petiole six inches long smooth shining cover- 

 ed with scattered flat spines ; leaflets in distant fascicles of 5 to 8 pairs 

 linear acuminate deep green 8-12 inches long i inch wide with a few 

 bristles on edges and nerves and more at the tip ; flagellum rather 

 slender 3 feet hooks recurved black-tipped. Male spadix slender 12- 

 inches long. Lower spathes ampliate tubular 3 inches long with an 

 acuminate limb 1 inch long, and an oblique mouth unarmed glabrous 

 thin textured. Spathels similar shorter, ribbed, mouth ciliate. Branch- 

 es few spikes very distarit 1-2 inches long rather slender. Flowers 

 distant. Spathellules nearly flat'saucer-shaped acuminate thin, strong- 

 ly ribbed. Bract ovate smaller. Calyx short campanulate, split for 

 more than half its length into ovate blunt lobes strongly ribbed. Corol- 

 la short obtuse. Female spadix much larger and stouter, 3 feet long. 

 Spathes smooth green as in male but larger. Internodes armed 

 with half circles of hooks. Spikes 4 inches long, flowers distant alter- 

 nate. Spathellules with a longer tube than in males. Calyx cylindric 

 dilated at the base, cleft for more than half its length into 3 blunt 

 lobes, strongly ribbed. Corolla barely longer. Fruit * inch long glo- 

 bose, scales rhomboid broader than long in about 6 rows, yellow turn- 

 ing brownish with a distinct brown margin, seed rugose, albumen 

 equable. Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. 458. C. Fernande.zii Wendl. Kerch. 

 Palm. 23G. Daemonorops fascicidatus Mart. Hist. Palm. III. 330. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 101, Griff. Palm. Brit. Ind. p. 95. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Ridley 11473, 11619); Toas (6283); 

 Johor : Gunong Pulai (Ridley 3719) ; Malacca: (Griffith); Griffith I.e. 

 gives the name Rotan Pajare but it is Rotan Pujare on his ticket in 

 Herb. Brit. Mus. I cannot find that any Malay knows it by any such 

 name. He gives the length of the leaf as 10-11 feet, I never saw it 

 as long. Endemic. 



