Zalacca.~\ CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 473 



bracteoles penicillate. Fruit 2% by If in., cuspidately tnammillate ; scales closely 

 imbricate, chesnut brown. Seeds 1-3, plano-couvex. Descr. chiefly from Griffith. 



3. 5S. conferta, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 16 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 19, t. 180, A, B, C ; leaflets linear-ensiform concolorous straight or 

 slightly falcate, fern, spadix large copiously branched from the base very 

 compact, spikes densely crowded much longer than their spathes, fruit 

 turbinate not spinous. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 201, t. 173, 174 ; Becc. 

 Males, iii. 67. 



MALACCA, Griffith. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Stems stout, less tufted than in others, forming an impenetrable jungle. Leaves 

 18-20 ft. ; petiole half the length of the blade, stout, flattened above ; spines short, 

 white, fascicled ; leaflets equidistant, alternate, 2 ft. by 2| in., subulate-acuminate, 

 tip and margins setose, costse of upper leaflets bristly on the upper surface. Spadix 

 8-12 in., crowded with cylindric spikes 6 in. long; male fl. in pairs; bracteoles 

 villous. Fruit crowded in a formless mass ; scales quite smooth, aspect waxy and 

 shining, margins denticulate, tawny greenish ; mesocarp white spongy. Seed broadly 

 turbinate. Distinguished by habit, direction of the leaflets their bristly costsc and 

 slender short white spines and crowded tbyrsiform fruiting spadixes. Descr. from, 

 Griffith. 



4. Z. Wallichiana, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 200, 325, t. 118, 119, 

 136 ; leaflets inequidistant falcate oblong-lanceolate with, very long filiform 

 setulose tips, costse naked, male and fern, spadices very long fastigiately 

 branched, spikes very distant much shorter than their spathes, fruit obovoid 

 shortly imbricate, scales with long reflexed points. Kuvz in Natuurk. 

 Tijdshr. Ned. Ind. xxvii. (1864) 216 ; For. Fl. n. 511 ; Becc. Males, iii. 66. 

 Z. edulis, Wall. Cat. n. 5000 ; PI. As. Rar. iii. 14, t. 222-224; Z. RumpUi; 

 Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 8; Palms Brit. Ind. 10, t. 175. 

 Blume Rjumphia, ii. 159. Z. macrostachya, Griff. II. cc. 13, and 15, t. 178 

 A, B, C ; Becc. I. c. 66. 



BUBMA, Kurz. MALACCA; at Ching, Griffith. PENANG and SINGAPORE. 

 DISTRIB. Siam, Banca. 



Stem very short or 0. Leaves 15-20 ft. ; leaflets approximate in groups of 2-4, 

 and alternate, 2-3 ft. by 1J-2 in., spinulosely ciliate above the middle, upper con- 

 fluent ; petiole 8-10 ft. and rachis copiously armed with broken spirals of strong 

 subreflexed spines. Spadices several feet long, rachis woolly. Spikes cylindric, 

 villous, l-2 in. long ; flowers small, rose-cold. Spathes variously ruptured, floral 

 terminated by dense tufts of rose-cold, paleaceous hairs. Fruit in dense heads, 



1 in. long or more, 1-3 -celled ; scales brown, tips terminating in a reflexed brittle 

 bristle. Descr. from Kurz For. Fl. 1. c. " Spadices dimorphic, one male only, 

 with densely tomentose spikes ; the other monoecious very dense-fld. and difficult to 

 make out ; each bract I find to correspond to a cluster of 3 flowers, a female between! 



2 males or neuter?, and with two densely tomentose bracteoles." Beccari. Griffith's 

 Z. macrostachya referred to Wallichiitna by Beccari (mss.) is a much stouter form, 

 with oblanceolate leaflets and spikes 3 in. long and nearly 1 in. diam. In Griffith's 

 figure of the whole plant (Tab. 178 C) the leaves have not the long tapering filiform 

 tips of Z. W^allichiana. 



5. Z. glabrescens, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 14; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 17, t. 179; leaflets close set slightly falcate concolorous, tips 

 subulate filiferous, male spadix much branched, spikes much longer than 

 their spathes, fern, spadix reduced to few branches each bearing a very 

 large solitary long peduncled nodding glabrous spike clothed with broad 

 glabrous imbricating bracts. 



