66. ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. M. scortechinii. 
specimens of. this Palm, from a nearly adult “plant (No. 513" in Herb. ^ Becc.) 
Native name “Perwal.” I have also a sterile specimen collected by Fr. Keheding 
at Malacca. Since then it has been found by Ridley with female flowers and fruits 
in Singapore at Bukit Mandai (No. 5680 in Herb. Cale. and Bece.: 5860 in Ridley 
l. c.?) and in the garden jungle (Ridley No. 12500 with female flowers in Herb: 
Bece.). The male plant is represented by Ridleys No. 11457 (in Herb. Becc.) 
also from Singapore at Bukit Timah. Some sterile specimens of. a Palm collected 
by Heyne in East Sumatra at Palembang (No. 20 Herb. Bogor.) and in Lampong 
(No. 120 Herb. Bogor.) apparently are referable to Myrialepis Seortechinü. 
Osservations.—It is a very distinct Palm, which, especially when young, re- 
sembles a Plectocomia, from which however it is easily distinguishable, even in a 
sterile condition, by its leaflets being distinctly sprinkled on the lower surface with 
pale microlepidia, which are invariably wanting in the Plectocomias. The male in- 
florescence differs considerably from the female one. I have described it from the 
same specimens which were considered by Ridley (No. 11457) as belonging to Plecto- 
comiopsis annulatus; the inflorescence in these specimens is withered, being apparently 
of a very perishable nature, and not one flower was left. To the same P. annulatus 
Ridley has referred his No. 12500, which bears female flowers in no way distin- 
guishable from those of his No. 5680 (or 5860 ?) which he really considers as 
representing my Myrialepis Scortechinii, which it certainly does. 
- The specimens from Sumatra, which I doubtfully refer to Myrialepis Scorte- 
 chimüi, are represented by several portions of a very large leaf; the leaf-sheath is 
7 em. in diameter and has the same kind of spinescence as the typical specimens, 
"but it is spinous also on the rim of its mouth; the petiole is very stout; the 
leaflets are as exactly described above, but have the under surface shghtly paler 
than the upper and are very minutely and ‘closely sprinkled with very minute, 
slightly prominent dots; in the typical specimens the’ dots or microlepidia are 
appressed. These specimens, if not exactly identical with the Malayan plant, probably 
represent an allied species. 
PLate 40.—Myrialepis Scortechinii Bece.—A branch of the male inflorescence 
having lost all its flowers; intermediate portion of a leaf ; from Ridley’s No. 11457 
in: Herb. Bece. Portion of a sheathed stem from a young plant; from Scortechinu’s 
No. 513° in Herb. Bece. 
PLate 41.—Myrialepis Scortechinii Bece—An entire partial inflorescence with 
female flowers in bud; a spikelet-bearing branchlet with female flowers during 
the anthesis (in the upper part of the plate); portion of a leaf; two mature 
fruits, one cut to show the seed in situ; from Ridley’s No. 5680 in the Calcutta 
Herbarium. Small partial inflorescence with nearly mature fruit (Scortechini’s type 
specimen) and a leaf-sheath of an adult plant, also from Scortechini in Herb Becc. 
