OncMsperma."] GLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 415 



MALAY PENINSULA ; in swamps. DISTBIB. Borneo, Cochin China. 



Trunk 30-40 ft., armed with long black spines. Leaves many, 10-12 ft., 

 drooping; leaflets 2 ft., narrow, acuminate, pendulous, coriaceous, many-nerved, 

 scurfy beneath ; petiole armed, scurfy. Spathes boat-shaped, 2-keeled, outer armed, 

 inner velvety. .Spadix shortly produced, peduncle slightly armed, branches many, 

 long, flexuous, upper simple ; fruiting 1-2 ft., pendulous, red-purple. Male fl. ; 

 sepals cuspidate, keeled ; petals suddenly acuminate, tip setiferous ; filaments short j 

 anthers deeply bifid below. Fern. fl. ; sepals and petals fleshy. 



2. O. horrida, Scheff. in Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 189 ; in 

 Ann. Jard. Buitenz. i. 159 ; stolonifercms, leaflets subequidistant spreading, 

 male fl. hexandrous, fruit spherical f-1 in. diam. Areca horrida, Griff, in 

 Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 465 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 158, t. 233 ; Mart. 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 312. 



MALAY PENINSULA, Griffith. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Trunk 30-40 ft., armed. Leaves few, spreading, 14-16 ft. ; leaflets 2-3 ft., very 

 narrow, acuminate, spreading, coriaceous. Spathes 2 complete, acutely margined, outer 

 1-1^ ft., armed, inner cuspidate. Spadix with the stout peduncle armed below ; branches 

 1-2 ft., pendulous, flexuous; fruiting with pendulous branches 2-3 ft. long. Fruit 

 purplish black. Griffith, from whom the above descriptions are taken, says of this 

 allied to A. tillgiaria, but very distinct in the spathes and fruit. 



3. O. fasciculata, Thw. Enum. 328 ; stoloniferous, leaflets fascicled 

 tips drooping, flowers enneandrous, fruit \ in. diam. Scheff. in Ann. Jard. 

 Buitenz. i. 160. Caryota horrida, Moon Cat. Ceyl. PI. 64. 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, ascending to 5000 ft. 



Trunk 30-40 ft. and more, 5-6 in. diam., armed. Leaves 18 ft. ; leaflets 12-18 

 by 1-lf in., lanceolate, long-acuniinate, costa scaly beneath ; sheath 2^ ft., armed 

 and scurfy. Spathes sparingly scurfy, unarmed. Spadix 2 ft., unarmed, panicu- 

 lately branched, dense-fld. Male fl. % in. long. Drupe black-purple. 



8. IGUANURA, Blume. 



Slender unarmed palms. Leaves terminal, entire or pinnatisect, with 

 broad acute or praemorse leaflets. Spathes 2, persistent, short. Spadix 

 inter- or infra-foliar, branches spreading ; flowers spirally disposed, 3-nate 

 (a fern, between 2 males), or the upper on the branches males. Male fl. 

 symmetric ; sepals orbicular, imbricate ; petals connate below, ovate or 

 lanceolate, valvate ; stamens 6 or 9, anthers dorsifixed; pistillode trigo- 

 nous. Fern. fl. subglobose ; sepals and petals orbicular; staminodes of 6 

 teeth ; ovary ovoid or oblong, 1-3-celled ; stigmas sessile ; ovule solitary, 

 parietal. Fruit small, oblong ovoid or elongate conical, stigmas sub- 

 basilar. Seed suberect, hilum lateral ; albumen equable or ruminate. 

 Species 8-10, Malayan. 



* Spadix interfoliar, very long and long peduncled, simple or with 2-3 

 g equal pendulous branches. 



1. X. g-eonomaeformis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 229, 178 ; stem 

 slender, leaves pinnate, leaflets 6-8 pairs obliquely acuminate or pramiorse 

 and erosely toothed, spadix furfuraceous, branches thick, fruit obovoid- 

 oblong. Slackia geonomaaformis, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 469 : 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 162, t. 234. 



MALACCA, rather common in forests, Griff. (Kew distrib. 6406, 6407), on Mt 

 Ophir, Hullett (851). 



