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sub-distichous recurved | inch long green. Flowers small distichous. 

 Spathellules short saucer-shaped with an ovate limb. Sepals oblong 

 lanceolate as long as the petals but thinner. Petals oblong lanceolate. 

 Stamens, filaments, rather long slender, anthers long, narrowed. 

 Female branchlets 2-3 inches long, spathels funnel-shaped, flowers 

 solitary. Calyx lobes ovate as long as the petals and quite similar. 

 Fruit small globular beaked £ inch long, scales in 6 whorls rhomboidal, 

 as broad as long, yellow or brownish yellow, apex blunt, darker, grooved. 

 Seed small, hemispheric base excavate, very rugose, albumen equable. 

 Tidal swamps common, native name"Eotan Bakau." This has the 

 appearance of one of the Cymbospathe Daemonorops from its densely 

 black spiny stem. 



Singapore : Serangoon Eoad, Changi (Eidley 6275); Johor : Panchur, 

 Batu Pahat (Eidley 11216) ; Pahang : Kwala Pahang. Endemic. 



39. C. dumetorum, n. sp. Stem stout moderately thick, leaves 

 large, sheath armed with strong flat spines Ik inch long; petiole over a 

 foot long, stout, back rounded upper surface flat, armed especially on the 

 upper surface with numerous short flat pale spines ; rachis with longer 

 distant thorns along the edge, pale with darker tips and distant stout 

 decurved hooks, leaflets distant elliptic lanceolate in pairs or solitary, 6 

 inches long 2 inches wide with short bristles scantily on margins and 

 tip, base and apex narrowed pale beneath. Panicles large, 18 inches 

 long, stout, lower spathe flattened thorny on the edge at the top, with 

 a short lanceolate limb, upper ones dilated upwards ampliate with 1-3 

 thorns. Branchlets pendulous 4 inches long, spathes scurfy, pubescent. 

 Spikes 1 inch long with close set alternate distichous flowers. Spa- 

 thellules with a short tube and broad ovate acute ribbed pubescent limb. 

 Bracts ovate ribbed. Fruit small. 



Perak : at Lahat near Ipoh in open country (Eidley 11988) ; I only 

 got male flowers and those young of this species. It is allied to C. 

 aquatilis, Eidl. but differs altogether in the broad distant leaflets. 

 Endemic. 



40. C. castaneus, Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 28. Palms of 

 British India, 37, t. 185. A tufted bushy palm producing no long 

 stems. Leaves very long, petiole stout with broad flat greenish spines 

 in short curved transverse rows consisting of one long one over an inch 

 long, and several short ones ; rachis stout triangular with hooks in pairs ; 

 leaflets numerous equidistant linear 15 inches long, 1 inch wide, above 

 green, greyish beneath, bristles i inch long on the midrib on both sides 

 and on the nerves, crowded at the acute tip. Spadices shorter than the 

 leaves. Males longest and most slender over a foot long with several 

 branches about 6 inches long and flexuous, spathes tubular dilated up- 

 wards, limb lanceolate acuminate with a very few soft spines or none. 

 Spathels short tubular cuspidate, spikes about 4 inches long, I inch 

 wide, flowers distichous. Spathellules short, cup-shaped £ inch long. 



