LieuaJa.] CLXIII. PALME M. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 431 



MALACCA; Griffith. PEBAK, Scortechini, King's Collector, 7339, 8534. 

 DISTEIB. Siam. 



Stem 4-10 ft. 3-9 in. diam., smooth. Leaves 3 ft. diam. ; petiole 1-2 ft., spines 

 few* short, recurved ; sheaths very fibrous. Spathes $ in. broad, mouths lacerate. 

 Spadix very stout; branches 4-8 in., spreading and recurved ; flowers sessile. Calyx 

 cup-shaped, T T r , in. broad. Fttals ovate. Fruit spherical, in. diam. Griffith 

 observes that this species approaches L. spinosa, but is abundantly distinct by its 

 smooth stein, which does not look much like the stem of a Palm, and by the small 

 smooth turbinate flowers. I doubt Kurz's Andaman plant being the same, it has 

 shortly tomentose branches of the spadix and flowers. 



3. L. long'ipes, G-riff. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 330 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 125, t. 224 A, B ; stem very short, leaves orbicular about 20-partite, 

 segments curieate crenate lateral obliquely truncate terminal about 11- 

 toothed, crenatures 2-fid crenulate, petiole shortly armed, spathes short 

 broad, spadices much shorter than the petioles, branches spreading and 

 flowers glabrous or pubescent, calyx cylindric, base truncate, petals cordate- 

 lanceolate, ovary villous. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng, xliii. 204 ; For. 

 Fl. ii. 528. 



TENASSERIM ; forests in Mergui. MALACCA, Griffith, Kurz. 



Leaves 3-4 It. diam. ; petiole 45 ft., trigonous, deeply channelled above, 

 glabrous ; spines very variable in size and number, but never long. Spathes 3-6 in. 

 long by in. broad, compressed, deeply lacerate at the mouth. Spadix stout and 

 flowers sparsely or sometimes densely pubescent ; branches stout, curved and spread- 

 ing; flowers sessile. Calyx shortly lobed, lobes 2-fld. Petals very short. Ovary 

 villous. Fruit seated on the pedicel-like perianth. The cylindric calyx with a broad 

 truncate base is a good character. 



* Spadix with 3-6 digitately branched or forked inflorescences, 

 f Branches of spadix and flowers pubescent or scurfy. 



4. IM. spinosa, Wannb. in Verh. Sat. Genooisch. ii. 469; leaves 

 orbicular-reniform sub 18-partite, lateral segments obliquely prernorse 

 3-4-lobed or 2-partite, median 10-11-lobed, petiole armed throughout, spadix 

 with many finely pubescent dense-fld. spikes and flowers, fruiting calyx 

 carnpanulate, petals very small, ovary glabrous, fruit obovoid. Roxb. FL 

 Ind. ii. 181 ? (excl. syn. Rumpk.} ; Griff, in Gale. Journ. -Nat. Hist. v. 321 ; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 119 ; Blame Rumph. ii. 39, t. 82, 88: Mart. Hist. Nat. 

 Palm. iii. 235, 318, t. 135, 1,2; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 53 ; Suppl. 254. 

 Becc. Males, iii. 74. L. paludosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. 528; 

 For. Fl. ii. 528. L. ramosa, Bl. in Schult. Syst. vii. 1303 ; Rumphia, ii. 39. 

 L. horrida, Blume Rumph. ii. 41, t. 89, f. 1 : Mart. I. c. 237, 318. 



MALACCA, Griffith. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz, Man. DISTRIH. Malay 

 Islands. 



Stems 8-10 ft., stout, 2-4 in. diam., densely tufted, rougli with scars of fallen 

 leaves. Leaves 4 ft. diam. ; petiole obtusely trigonous, spines stout curved ; ligule 

 1-1-J- in., scarious. Spathes very long, scurfy, f in. diam., mouths lacerate. Spadix 

 rather longer than the leaves ; branches 7-10, adnate to the rachis up to the mouth 

 of the spathes ; lower compound, spreading, generally secund ; flowers 2-3-nate. 

 Calyx lobed to the middle. Petals broadly lanceolate, acuminate. Fruit obovoid, 

 i in. long, pedicelled by the calyx-tube, red. Beccari (mss.) refers Kurz's 

 Andaman L. paludosa to spinosa, I think rightly (.7. D. H.). 



5. Ii. malayana, Becc. Males, iii. 197 ; leaves peltately digitate, seg- 

 ments 20-26, teeth very short broad obtuse, petiole very long spinous at 



