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9. K. FLAGELLAKIS, Miq. Journ. Bot. Neerl. 15. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 255, 591. Leaves 12 inches long, sheath very spiny, petiole 

 long and stout, 5 inches long, 1 inch thick ; rachis stout with powerful 

 hooks 1 inch part ; leaflets obcuneate, 3 inches long by 1 inch wide 

 with few strong teeth, crowded, red tomentose beneath, petiolule thin 

 and flat ; flagellum very long and stout, claws in threes, ochrea armed 

 ventrally. Branches of inflorescence 9 inches long, spikes 3 to 4 inches 

 long sessile. Bracts broad truncate shorter than the red wool between 

 them. Petals ovate blunt (in fruit). Fruit very young, yellow, short 

 beaked, scales in 9 to 10 series, fimbriate. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 

 476. K. angmtifolia Miq. Palm. Arch. Ind. 15, 26. (not of Blume). 



Perak : (Scortechini) Asam Kumbang (Wray 3127). Distrib. 

 Sumatra. 



10. K. BUBIGINOSA, Beec. Malesia II. 72. Stem tall and stout, 

 li inch through. Leaves large, sheath thorny with short thick conic 

 thorns, straight on the back, lacerate into fine red, brown fibres, ligule 

 4 inches long lanceolate oblong ; petiole over a foot long or less, armed 

 with short straight thorns on the edge, in the upper leaves more thorny, 

 inner face and back armed with numerous thorns in groups or single ; 

 leaflets linear oblong 12-18 inches long, l^-nearly 2 inches across, base 

 gradually cuneate ending in a flattened petiole 2 inch long, tip toothed 

 acuminate teeth, spinescent above green plicate beneath covered w r ith 

 a close cinnamon red scurf, making the plant very conspicuous, rachis 

 with small hooks or nearly unai*med. Inflorescence a foot or more 

 branches bluntly angled, woody, not very thick. Spikes 3 inches thick, 

 y inch through, woolly. Bracts ovate ribbed. Calyx lobes small ovate, 

 orbicular. Petals ovate, ribbed longer. 



Johor : Mt. Austin (Ridley 12591) ; Mt. Soga, Batu Pahat (11214). 

 I have often seen this conspicuous plant in Selangor and Perak, but fail- 

 ed to find any inflorescences except that of one plant which had been 

 felled and was nearly rotten. I have no doubt that it is the plant des- 

 cribed partly by Beccari from Borneo. 



25. Plectocomia, Mart. 



Gigantic climbing unisexual rattans, the stems thickening upwards 

 from comparatively slender bases. Leaves very large, flagelliferous 

 w r ith broad leaflets. Inflorescence subterminal of long pendulous 

 spikes covered with broad imbricating bracts, almost concealing the 

 small panicled or spicate flowers. Male spikelets many flowered. 

 Flowers small. Calyx cupular shortly 3 toothed. Petals oblong free 

 almost to the base. Stamens 6 to 12 filaments very short. Anthers 

 linear. Female flowers large and fewer, pedicellate ; staminodes 6 or 

 none. Styles stout, ovary three-celled. Fruit globose, 1 to 3 seeded, 

 pericarp with dark brown triangular scales with a free recurved point. 

 Seed Bolitarv, albumen equable. Species 5 or 6 Indo-Malayan. 



