214 Materials for a Flora of ike Malayan Peninsula. 



recurved hooks with broad bases, single or in pairs, sparsely brownish 

 pubescent ; leaflets in threes closely together linear acuminate deep 

 green, not bristly, 7 inches long, i inch wide. Flagellum 2 feet long, 

 hooks very close in groups of 6 almost surrounding the rachis. Inflores- 

 cence female about 2 feet long, branches recurved stout, 6 inches long, 

 distichous remote. Spathes tubular striate 1-2 inches long, usually 

 with a short limb. Spathels similar but smaller. Spikes \ inch long 

 recurved with about 6 secund flowers on each. Flowers nearly i inch 

 long green. Calyx cup-shaped, lobes ovate, acute short. Corolla a 

 little longer, all ribbed. Fruit globular, green an inch through, scales 

 minute, acuminate, very numerous. Myrialepis Scortechinii, Becc. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. 480. 



Singapore : Bukit Mandai Road (Ridley 3503, 5860) ; Perak : (Scor- 

 techini). Endemic. " Kotan Kajah," " Eotan Kirtong." In habit, 

 armature and foliage this much resembles Pleclocornopsis annulatus 

 and the fruit is quite similar. 



3. PL. GEMIMFLORUS, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 479. A gigantic 

 plant with stems 60 or more feet tall and 2 inches through, light green, 

 scurfy and sprinkled over with many short conic, acute, pale thorns 

 irregularly placed. Leaves very large, petiole stout an inch across, 

 edged and keeled with short conic pale thorns ; rachis armed with dis- 

 tant hooks; leaflets alternate regularly lanceolate a foot long, 1-r inch 

 wide, narrowed at the base with a yellowish thick pulvinus tip long 

 acuminate, no bristles, terminal leaves reduced to sheaths with a few 

 very narrow linear setiform leaflets, and a flagellum 6 inches or more 

 long, with lather distant short, pale hooks. Panicles nearly 2 feet 

 long, or less, with very numerous slender flexuous branches 8 inches or 

 more long, spikes alternate recurved -.{: inch long. Flowers secund. 

 Spathes and spathels tubular, with an acuminate lanceolate limb, which 

 is finely hairy on the edge. Bracts small, ovate acuminate pubescent. 

 Flowers male, about 12 in a spike. Calyx cup-shaped with short lobes, 

 corolla twice as long. Female spadices simple, long branches very 

 short, enclosed in a cup-shaped spathel. Young fruit globose, scales 

 small brown with whitish edges. PL Wrayi Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. 

 480. Calamus (jeminiflorus Griff. Palm. Brit. Ind. 70, t. 199, A. 



Malacca: (Fernandez) ; Selangor : RantauPanjang (Ridley 12119); 

 Perak : Sungei Larut (Wray 2421). Griffith's original plant is a female 

 one and no other females have been described. The others are all male. 

 There is a considerable difference between the form of the inflorescence 

 in the two sexes, but as the stem and leaves and general form of the plant 

 is exactly similar in both, I have no doubt as to their being the same 

 plant, especially as quite similar sexual differences occur in PI. anmdatus. 



24. KoirniALSiA, Bl. 



Climbing palms with pinnate flagelliforous leaves, sheaths thorny 

 or smooth, ligule often developed into a swollen amplexicaul body 



