480 CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Plectocomiopsis. 



Stem slender, attaining 80 ft. Sheaths striate, sparsely prickly, uppermost un- 

 armed. Leaves 6-10 ft. ; leaflets 5-10 by in., finely acuminate, keel sparsely 

 bristly above, smooth beneath. Spadices many, from the uppermost leaf-sheaths, 

 which bear a simple armed flagellum and no leaflets; lower 4-5 in., with 4-5 pendu- 

 lous spikes each 6-8 in. long. Spathes short, tubular, like the secondary spathes of 

 Calamus. Spikes flexuous, rusty-pubescent ; flowers 2-bracteolate, outer bracteole 

 minute, inner auricular. Fruit immature; pericarp spongy; scales brown, with 

 whitish fimbriate margins. 



2. I*. Wrayii, Becc. mss.; leaves petioled, fruit globosely ovoid shortly 

 narrowed at the top with about 23 rows of scales. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Perak, Wray (2421 $ ) ; Herb. Hort. Calcutt. (5282 $ , 

 3447 ). 



Very near P. gemmijlorus ; distinguished by the longer petiole and fruit. 



3. P. paradoxus, Becc. mss. ; leaves shortly petioled, leaflets lanceo- 

 late scattered in distant pairs shortly acuminate, spadices bit'ariously 

 decompound, spathels tubular, male spikelets exserted recurved. Calamus 

 paradoxus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. xliii. (1874) ii. 213, t. 29, 30 ; For. 

 Flor. ii. 521. 



MAETABAN, Kurz. 



Stem with the sheaths 1-2 in. diam. Leaves 5-7 ft. ; leaflets 1-H ft. by 1 in., 

 in alternate pairs, thin, obscurely remotely appressedly ciliolate ; petiole . armed, 

 sheath with pectinate spines; flagellum very long. Spat/ies tabular, smooth, 

 obliquely truncate and acuminate ; spathels similar, but much smaller, distichously 

 imbricated ; bracts spreading, glabrous. Fem.fl. and fruit unknown. 



30. XKVRIAXiEPXS, Becc. mss. 



Characters as far as known of Plectocomiopsis, but the minute scales 

 of the fruit are disposed without order. Species 2, a Bornean and the 

 following. 



XVI. S cert echini, Becc. mss. 



MALAY PENINSULA; Perak, Scortechini (n. 457 b ). 



Leaves unknown. Fern. fl. solitary in the spathels ; calyx 3-lobed ; corolla rather 

 longer. Fruit globose ; scales acuminate, tips not recurved ; mesocarp between 

 spongy and corky. Seed globose; albumen horny, equable. Differs from the 

 Bornean species (Jf. triqueter, Becc., Calamus triqueter, Becc-., Malesia, iii. 62) in 

 the obtusely angled trigonous sparsely spinous leal-sheaths. The specimens are very 

 imperfect. 



31. EUGEISSONIA, Griff. 



Tufted monocarpic spinous palms. Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets lanceo- 

 late ; raeliis armed, not flagellit'erous. Spadix terminal, erect, thyrsiform, 

 clothed belo-wwith reduced flagelliferous leaf-sheaths; branches erect, 

 clothed with sn^Hitichous obtuse spathes passing into bracts and brac- 

 teoles. Flowers^nge, coriaceous, solitary or 2-3-nate, 1-2-sexual. Male 

 fl. calyx cupular, 3-fid; petals elongate-lanceolate, pungent, valvate ; 

 stamens about 12, anthers elongate, basitixed. Fern. fl. larger ; perianth 

 accrescent ; calyx of the male ; petals with a dilated base and transverse 

 crest of hairs ; ovary oblong, 3-celled, stigmas flattened. Fruit ovoid, 

 narrowed into a very broad obtuse beak, 1-celled, 1-seeded, scales minute ; 

 endocarp osseous. Seed ovoid, 6-12-grooved ; albumen equable; embryo 

 basilar. Species about 6, Malayan. 



