176 .THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE, 
D. longipes Mart. Chan Chu Kang, Bukit Timah, Manlai 
Changi. 
D. cochleatus Teysm, Rare, Selitar. 
D. crinita Bl. Not rare, but I have never seen flowers or fruits. 
* Rotan Chinchin,” Bukit Timah, Chan Chu Kane. 
D, accedens Bl, Chan Chu Kang. 
Zalucca conferta Griff, ‘Asam Payoh.” “ Kelubi.” A very 
thorny palm, common in water in jungles, forming close 
thickets, fruit very acid, sold and eaten by Malays. Clu- 
ny road, Chan Chu Kang, Bukit Mandai. 
Z. Wallichiana Mart. Dryer woods. Bukit Timah, Bukit Man- 
dai. 
Korthalsia echinometra Becc. Climber with very large swollen 
sheaths inhabited by ants. Flowers and fruits unknown. 
Rare, Bukit Timah. 
Kk. scaphigera Mart. “ Rotan Semut.” Common, Garden jungle, 
Bukit Timah. A good rattan. 
Kk, flagellaris Miq. Bukit Mandai, Chan Chu Kang. 
ky. polystachys Mart. Bukit Timah. 
Ceratolobus Kingianus Becc. Bukit Timah, Selitar. 
Plectocomia Griffithii Becc. “ Rotan Dahan.” A very large 
stout rattan. The flowers produced in an enormous in- 
florescence of pendulous spikes 8 feet long with close dark 
brown sheaths enclosing the flowers, each piant is unisex- 
ual, and the flowering stems die away after flowering. 
Common in all the woods. 
Myrialepis Scoriechini Bece. ‘ Rotan Kertong.” Bukit Mandai, 
Selitar, Kranji. 
The Sago palms Metroxylon Sagus Rottb. and WM. Runphii Mart., 
the ‘‘ Lontar,” Borassus flabellifer L., and the Coconut, 
Cocos Nucifera L, are cultivated here. 
