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34. C. LONGISPATHA, n. sp. A large stout rattan, leaves very 

 large petiole short very thick i inch through nearly quadrate in out- 

 line, edge armed with short thorns, back with powerful hooks in pairs 

 black-tipped ; rachis and flagellum with powerful hooks solitary or in 

 twos and threes ; leaflets ensiform acute 26 inches long f inch wide 

 setulose only on the filiform tip. Spadix, female only seen, 8 feet long 

 very stout, peduncle thorny, thick, woody, subtriangular. Spathes 

 large lowest about 18 inches covered with short hooks with black tips. 

 Spikes 2 inches long thick. Spathels strongly muricate (in Wray's 

 specimen not in mine) dilate upwards. Female flower cylindric. 

 Calyx dilate at base, lobes subobtuse. Petals nearly twice as long. 

 Fruit large globose shortly beaked orange, scales broader than long 

 deeply (obscurely Beccari) channelled. 



Perak : Thaiping (Wray 2392, 3017) ; Gunong Keledang (Kidley) ; 

 Selangor : loth mile Pahang Track, near the Semangkok Pass (Ridley 

 8777). This is very little known, and all the specimens seem to differ 

 from each other a little. The Selangor specimen has young fruit of a 

 fusiform shape a little over ^ inch long, scales yellow with dark edges. 

 This is I presume its young state, as the rest of the plant is indis- 

 tinguishable from the Keledang one. Endemic. 



35. C. PALLIDULUS, Becc. Flor. Brit. Ind. I.e. 457. Stem stout, 

 light green | inch through with irregular thick short thorns in short 

 rows. Leaf subsessile drying light green, rachis not very thick, trian- 

 gular, with conic hooks solitary or in pairs black-tipped ; leaflets alter- 

 nate scattered not fascicled ensiform acuminate to lanceolate linear nar- 

 rowed at base with a small swelling at the base on the rachis, glabrous 

 many-nerved. Spadix large, lowest spathe with a few short thick 

 spines, upper ones narrowed at base, dilate upwards 1 inch long, mouth 

 entire with a short limb and some short rough thorns below the mouth. 

 Branches over a foot long, spikes numerous, 3 inches long in fruit. 

 Spathels short muricate g inch long, mouth rounded. Female flowers. 

 Calyx dilate at base cylindric truncate, lobes short ovate, petals small- 

 er. Fruit light fawn yellow, spherical with a short thick beak f inch 

 through, scales in ten rows, rhomboid as broad as long, edges brown. 



Singapore : Jalan Bray (Ridley 6281). Endemic. 



36. C. DIFPUSUS, Becc. and Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 447. Leaves 

 2-3 feet long, not flagelliferous, petiole a foot long with a few thorns 

 on the edge ; rachis with a few black thorns recurved ; leaflets narrow 

 linear acuminate, equidistant close, 8-12 inches long -£ inch wide with 

 three nerves sparingly setulose, and black bristles at the tip. Male 

 spadix diffusely supra-decompound branches spirally inserted, lower 

 spathe tubular green smooth coriaceous armed with hooked spines, 

 upper tubular infundibular unarmed. Spathels short, broad. Flow- 

 wers crowded distichous. Calyx campanulate, striate. Corolla twice 

 as long. Female spadix about 2 feet long, branches few recurved 8 



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