216 Materials for a Flora of Hie Malayan Peninsula. 



Singapore : common, Bukit Timah, Chan Chu Kang (Ridley 3521) ; 

 Nergi Sembilan : near Seremban (S. Moorhouse), Bukit Kandang 

 (Cantley) ; Perak: Larut Hills to about 1,500 feet alt. (Scortechini, 

 Ridley). Native name " Rotan Hudang." Distribution Borneo. 



2. K. SCAPHIGERA, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm III. 211. Stem slen- 

 der 30 to 60 feet long, i inch through, yellowish green sheaths sprinkled 

 with short thorns, ochrea swollen oblong elliptic, cymbiform 1| inch 

 long to 3 inches. Leaf about 3 feet long, upper ones ending in a very 

 slender flagellum 3 feet long, armed with numerous small hooks 1 to 3 

 in a group, lower leaves ending in a double leaflet ; leaflets 12 sub- 

 opposite cuneate, whitish beneath with a short petiolule, nerves 7 ; 6 to 7 

 inches long, 2 inches wide; petiole 3 inches long. Inflorescence about 

 a foot long with few branches, lower spathes tubular with a few short 

 thorns, upper ones smooth, with a short limb, spikes decurved 8 inches 

 long, 4 inch through, cylindric. Bracts short, broad ovate. Flowers 

 spirally arranged, orange. Calyx lobes ovate, very small, concealed 

 in the wool. Corolla split almost to the base k inch long, oblong ob- 

 tuse. Stamens almost as long adnate at the mouth of the tube ; fila- 

 ments very short cuneate, anthers linear, oblong pink. Ovary conic, 

 sunk in the wool. Styles forming a cone. Fruit oblong | inch long, 

 beaked yellow, scales as broad as long hardly grooved. Seed oblong 

 ellipsoid, albumen ruminate. 



Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 750. Palm. Arch. Ind. 26. Becc. Malesia 

 II. 67, t. 5. Becc. and Hook. fill. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 475. K. Lobbiana, 

 II. Wendl. Bot. Zeit. XVII. 171, Miq. I.e. K. rostrata, Bl. Rumphia, II. 

 168. Calamosagus scaphigera Griff. Palm. Brit. Ind. 30, t. 184 A. 

 Kurz. Flor. For. II. 513. 



Singapore : Garden Jungle (Ridley 9217), North Selitar, Bukit 

 Timah common (Ridley 6272); Malacca: (Griffith), Sungei Udang 

 (Goodenough 1704); Sungei Ujong : (Cantley's Coll.); Perak: Asam, 

 Kumbang (Wray), Larut (King's Coll. 3722, 6833, 8144). Endemic, 

 in woods common. " Rotan Semut." Ant-Rattan, so named from 

 the ants which inhabit the swollen ochreae. The rattan is valued on 

 account of its small size and strength. 



2. K. Scortechinii, Becc. Fl. Brit, Ind. I.e. 475. Leaflets 14-16 

 to 2 inches alternate linear or cuneately oblanceolate 8 to 10 times long- 

 er than broad equidistant, white beneath 5-7 nerved acutely toothed, 

 sheath and ochrea 6-8 inches long around, with short scattered spines. 



Perak : (Scortechini). I have not seen this. 



3. K. MACHADONIS, n. sp. Stem slonder, ochrea cylindric li inch 

 long thorny, petiolo a foot long, very thorny, with short thorns crowd- 

 ed white, with a scurfy meal when young ; leaflets alternate remote 12. 

 the two lowest smallest, the terminal ones connate broad, the others 



