LicualaJ] CLXIII. PALME/E. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 433 



Stem 3-4 ft., 1-14 in. diain. Leaves 2-3 fc. diam. ; petiole 4-5 ft., plano- 

 convex. Spatlies 3-6 in. narrow, cylindric, the lower a little compressed, mouth 

 oblique bifid, tips .quite entire. Spadix 4 ft. (in King's specimens), perfectly 

 glabrous throughout, rachis quite smooth, furrowed when dry ; branches 4-6 in., 

 divaricate ; flowers subsessile. Calyx obscurely 3-lobed. Petals twice as long, 

 acuminate. Young fruit ellipsoid, narrowed at both ends, keeled, in. long, 

 stipitate by the calyx tube and spreading petals, tipped by the remains of the 

 abortive carpels. 



II. Spathes compressed, split on one side (tabular in L. Kingii}. 

 * Spadix with 2 or more superposed simple or branched inflorescences. 



9. Zi. modesta, Becc. Males, iii. 195 ; stem elongate, leaves semi- 

 circular, segments very many narrowly cuneate, petiole very long spinous 

 towards the base only, spathes flattened acutely 2-edged glabrous margins 

 of mouth quite entire, branches of spadix and flowers fulvous pubescent, 

 staminal cup 6-lobed, ovary glabrous. 



PEBAK ; Maxwell hill, Scortechini, alt. 3360 ft. ; Larut, King's Collector (1945, 

 1951, 1983, 2420, 3243). 



Stem 2-10 ft. Leaves palmately multifid j segments 2-3 nerved ; petiole 3-4 ft., 

 spines short recurved, fipathes 4-6 long by in. broad, flat, glabrescent. Spadix 

 16-30 in. ; branches spreading ; flowers seated on small tubercles ; calyx campanulate, 

 lobes very short tipped with hairs ; corolla rat her longer ; style subulate. Fruit glo- 

 bosely obovoid, about in. long, pedicelled by the calyx. Difficult to distinguish 

 from acutifida. 



10. Zi. XLunstleri, Becc. ; stem robust, leaves long-petioled, mid- 

 segment not petiolulate, petiole armed at the base, spathe much com- 

 pressed furfuraceous mouth not lacerate, branches of spadix very scurtily 

 and rustily hairy, flowers pedicelled pubescent. 



PERAK ; on Ulu Bubong, Kunstler (10,205). 



Stem 4 ft. by 4-5 in. diam. Calyx campanulate, base narrowed, pubescent ; 

 petals- rather longer. Only a solitary imperfect specimen seen, well characterized by 

 the pedicelled flowers. Allied to acutifida, differing in the robust stem, much 

 broader leaf -s'egm euts, and longer floral pedicels. 



11. I., acutifida, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 236, t. 135, f. 3, 4 (excl. 

 Syn. Hoxb.) ; stem slender, leaves many long-petioled, segments 15-20 

 very narrow terminating in long narrow bifid lobes, median petiolulate, 

 petiole very slender shortly armed and furfuraceous towards the base, 

 spadix spathes and flowers furfuraceously velvety, flowers seated on a 

 rather prominent pedicel, calyx obconic. Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 v. 327 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 122, t. 222 A, B ; Wall. Cat. 8618. 



PENANG, Leivls, Oxley. SINGAPORE, Lobb. 



Stem 15-20 ft., 1-2 in. diam. * Leaves 1-2 ft. diam., segments 1-3-costate; 

 terminal lobes |-1 in. ; petiole 18-48 in. ; ligule elongate. Spathes paleaceously 

 scurfy, 2-lobed, 4-6 in. long by in. diam., silkily or silverily paleaceous. Spadix 

 12-18 in. ; spikes 3-5 in., simple or forked, adnate to the rachis, lower flowers 

 2-nate, upper solitary; calyx obtusely 3-fid, pubescent; petals striate. Ovary 

 * obovoid, smooth ; style filiform. Fruit f in. diam., stipitate by the calyx. Seed 

 pisiform. 



12. L. pusilla, Becc. Males, iii. 194 ; stemless, leaves palmately 9-fid, 

 segments very narrow, median 3-fid on 3-partite shortly and obtusely 

 toothed, lateral with very oblique tips having several short and one long 



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