432 CLXIII PALME/E. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Licuala. 



the base only, spadix elongate, branches many 3-partite spreading pubes- 

 cent, flowers solitary spirally disposed finely pubescent, calyx tubular 

 campanulate hardly toothed, base truncate and intruded, petals rather 

 longer acute, ovary glabrous, fruit globose. 



PERAK, Scortechini ; Go'ping, King's Collector, 469, 8127. 



Stem 4-6 ft., 1 diam. Leaves about 3 ft. diam.; petiole 5-6 ft., slender. 

 Spathes narrow, 4-6 in. long by | in. broad, subfurfuraceous ; lower acutely keeled, 

 mouth shortly lacerate. Spadix 2^-3 ft., branches spreading and curved or flexuous; 

 flowers inserted in small tubercles which (in the dried state) are sunk in the lobulate 

 b:ise of the calyx. Staminal cup deeply lobed. Fruit % in. diam., rather longer 

 than broad, tipped with the scale-like remains of the abortive carpels, dried pericarp 

 chiefly laeemose. Allied to L. spinosa, distinguished by the petiole armed only at 

 the base, the form of the flowers, and the staminal cup deeply divided into large 

 lobes. 



6. Zi. triphylla, Griff, in Cede. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 352 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 126, t. 225 ; stem very short, leaves few flabelliform 3-9-partite, 

 segments broadly crenate, median narrowed into a petiolule, petiole very 

 long and slender sparingly armed with small spines, spathes very slender, 

 spadix short slender, branches few slender few-fld. and flowers puberulous, 

 calyx turbinate, petals minute, fruit pisiform. 



MALACCA ; forests Ayer Puunus, Griffith. PERAK, King's Collector (2860, 

 3007). 



Stem 3-4 in. Leaves with segments 8-10 in. long, of very various breadth, the 

 tips of the central crenate with very short rounded notched lobes, the lateral obliquely 

 premorse and notched ; petiole 2 ft., not % in. broad ; spines % in. Spathes 1^-2 in. 

 long by i- in. diam., mouth split. Spadix a foot long, very slender, branches 

 short, flowers T \j in. long, scattered, subsessile. Petals minute, ;icute. Seed with 

 a curved internal process. 



7. Zi. ferrugrinea ? Becc. mss. ; leaves orbicular 3-7-partite, segments 

 broadly crenate, the central subpetiolulate, petiole very long armed almost 

 throughout furfuraceous or glabrate, spathes large broad flattened furfura- 

 ceous, spadix and its branches very stout thickly f urfuraceously tomeutose, 

 flowers sessile, calyx cupular, petals very small. 



SINGAPORE, Gaudichaud, Lolb. PEKAK, at Sunki, 100-800 ft, King's 

 Collector (3041). 



Leaves 3 ft. diam., young furfuraceous towards the base below, segments merely 

 notched as in L. triphylla ; petiole 3-4 ft. with concave face and sides, and rounded 

 back, young villously furturnceous along the margin between the short stout spines. 

 Spathes 4-6 in. long by 1^-2 in. broad, compressed, 2-keeled, mouth lacerate. 

 ISpadix very stout; with stout rusty -tomentose branches 6-8 in. long ; flowers sessile, 

 -j- 1 ^ in. diam., rusty pubescent. Calyx very short, lobes rounded. Fruit % in. long, 

 ellipsoidly obovoid, obscurely 3-ribbed when dry. 



ft Branches of spadix andfloivers glabrous. 



8. L. g'labra, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 329 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 124, t. 223 ; stem slender, leaves flabelliform 16-18-partite, segments 

 linear-cuneate median 2-3-fid, tips with short bind lobes separated by a 

 broad sinus, petiole very slender almost unarmed, spathes glabrous, 

 spadix slender elongate and flowers quite glabrous, branches adnate to 

 the rachis far above the spathes 4-5-partite, calyx campanulate, petals 

 lanceolate. 



MALACCA; Mt. Ophir, Griffith, 'Hullett (852). PERAK; onGunong Batu Pateh, 

 alt. 3-4000 ft., King's Collector (8148) ; Scortechini (319 1 ?, 593 b ). 



