212 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Flowers } inch brown. Calyx tube cylindric lobes lanceolate, acute 

 short. Petals but little longer lanceolate acute. Female spadix shorter 

 and stouter with a stout peduncle 6 inches long. Spathes shorter and 

 broader. Spikes broader 4 inches long. Flowers larger, corolla but 

 little longer than the calyx, pistil long with stout stigmas. Fruit f-1 inch 

 long, oblong, ellipsoid, beaked, dark brown, scales rhomboid, grooved, 

 broader than long in 18 to 26 rows, or fewer and larger, seed oblong flat- 

 tened wrinkled albumen equable. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 331. Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 112. Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. 449. C. Griffithianus 

 Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. I.e. 332. C. castancus var. A. Griff. Palm. Ind. 

 38. 



Johor : Serom (Kidley) ; Malacca : Nyalas; Selangor, (Holmberg) 

 Ayer Panas (Hervey) ; Selangor : Kwala Lumpur (Ridley 3477, 3478) ; 

 Pahang : Tahan River (Ridley) ; Perak : Bujong Malacca (Ridley 9810) ; 

 Kwala Lipis (Machado); Bindings: Lumut (Curtis 3454) (Ridley 94G7). 

 Endemic in forests. Native name " Atap Chuchur." The leaves used 

 for thatching. The form with rather larger fruit G. Griffithianus grows 

 with the common form. 



41. C. TURBINATUS, n. sp. Stems long £ inch thick. Leaf sheaths 

 armed with flat, pale, dagger-shaped thorns in ascending lines, in upper 

 sheaths smaller and more thorn-like, no ligule, petiole 6 inches or' more 

 long sparingly thorny along the edge, not gibbous at the base ; blade 

 about 4 feet long, leaflets linear acuminate 8 inches long, o inch wide 

 alternate or sub-opposite numerous ; rachis with distant small hooks, 

 flagellum with few distant hooks. Inflorescences several from the 

 upper part of the stem axillary, short and stout, 4 to 6 inches long, 

 with very few branches, spathes funnel-shaped with an acute point, 

 unarmed, branches stout 3 to 6 inches long, covered with short funnel- 

 shaped spathels, scurfy edges pubescent. Flowers in pairs, peduncle 

 shorter than the spathel. Bract at base of flower cup-shaped 3 lobed 

 with gibbous bases, lobes rounded. Calyx lobes ovate acute, petals 

 ovate much smaller. Fruit obturbinate, narrowed at the base, very 

 shortly beaked at the broad top, scales very numerous, about 16 rows 

 sub-triangular acute, grooved, cinnamon brown margined with a lacer- 

 ate pale edge. Pericarp distinctly 3 celled when young. 



" Rotan Relang." Negri Sembilan : Kwala Pilah (S. Moorhouse). 

 C. castaneus but with a climbing stem, and very different fruits. 

 Endemic. 



Spf.cies Altogetheb Doubtful ok Excluded. 



C. Martianus, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 459, see under C. Penangcnsis. 



C. neglectus, Becc. I.e. 458, founded on some unrecognizable 

 scraps in Griffith's Malacca herbarium probably bits of C. palnstris. 



