220 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



PL. Griffithii, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 478. Stems 100 feet 

 long, 3 inches in diameter above. Leaf sheaths dark green, ribbed 

 with strong red spines, 3 inches long in rows of 5 to 7 on the back, 

 m'argins and mouth ; petiole stout 8 inches long, back rounded chan- 

 nelled above leaf 20 feet long, rachis (nearly white when young) stout 

 with a few scattered thorns ; leaflets elliptic acuminate base narrowed, 

 dark green above, pale beneath, 12 inches long, wide, arranged in dis- 

 tant fascicles of 2 or 3 ; flagellum very long and thick, armed with power- 

 ful hooks in groups. Spikes of inflorescence 6 feet long. Males, bracts 

 nearly 2 inches long, broadly ovate, sides angled, dark brown striate, 

 edges pubescent, spikelets 1 inch long, rachis pubescent. Flowers 

 nearly i inch long, yellow. Calyx short, lobes, hardly distinct acute, 

 edges pubescent, ribbed. Corolla split, nearly to the base, lobes oblong 

 acute, ribbed falcate, 3 times as long as the calyx. Stamens 6 filaments 

 very short, anthers linear. Female bracts '.--mailer, spikelets more 

 slender and denser. Flowers much larger f inch long, about 4 

 in number. Calyx large, cup-shaped, shortly lobed thick hardly ribbed. 

 Corolla lobes oblong acute twice as long, styles longer than the corolla. 

 Fruits globose, several in a bract, dark brown, as large as a bullet, (12 

 bore). Scales triangular, with a long red pointy margins lanciniate 

 and fimbriate. Styles persistent. P. clomjata, Griff, in Calc. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. V. 96. Palm. Brit. Ind. 104, t. 217 A. B. C. (not of Blume). 

 Common all over the peninsula ascending to 300 feet elevation. 



Singapore : Garden Jungle (Ridley 3487), Bukit Maudin Road 

 (3470), Kranji Selitar (1665); Malacca: Kunder (Griffith) Mt, Ophir 

 at 3000 feet elevation. Perak : Gunong Keledang (Ridley J; Penang 

 Hill at 2000 feet elevation (Ridley 7098, Curtis 1669). Native name 

 " Rotan Dahan." This rattan is only used for legs of long chairs, 

 mining baskets, etc., and is very little valued. It is abundant in the 

 lowland forests, and owing to its great weight frequently brings down 

 trees of considerable size by climbing on them. The immense climb- 

 ing steins die completely after flowering. 



PL. ELONGATA, Mart. Roem. and Schult. Syst. VII. 1333. Hist. Nat. 

 Palm. 199, t. 114, and 116. fl. A Japanese plant, differing in its pale 

 colored bracts acute and sublobed, and fewer and larger fruit. It is 

 recorded from Penang collected by Jack and Wallich on the authority 

 of Martius, and by Curtis, Beccari in Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 479. I have 

 nowhere seen it. The plant collected by Curtis is certainly 

 P. Griffithii, and the others probably the same. 



26. Bokassus, L. 



Bteto tall, stout, solitary unarmed. Leaves very stiff, fan-shaped, 

 multifid, petiole spinous or not. Spadices very largo simply branched. 

 Peduncle sheathed with opeirspathes. Male spadix with many branch- 

 es, cyliudric, stout, covered densely with umbricating bract:, enclosing 

 spikelctLi of minute flowers. Sepals concrete 3 tip inQexed truncate. 



