Z. secunda. ZALACCA. 87 
em. long, clothed with several spathes similar to those of the male spadix, ' each 
bearing a solitary long-pedunculate nodding spike, 7—8 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter 
and terminated by an apiculum, formed by small approximate much reduced 
spathels ; the normal spathels are ' very broad, coriaceous and connate by their 
margins. In correspondence with every spathel are, as usual, two flowers, one of 
which is large and female, the other at its side, is smaller and neuter. Female 
flowers obliquely ovoid, 8 mm. long; the calyx splits into 3 oblong, blunt seg- 
ments; the corolla, about one-third longer than the calyx, is divided to the middle 
into 3 thickish triangular segments ; sterile stamens are present ; ovary strigose ; 
style short ; stigmas thick, elongate, trigonous ; special female flower  bracteoles 
thickish, ovate, slightly hairy but only on the keeled back. Neuter Jlowers not seen 
in good condition by me, described by Griffith as having 6 barren stamens, small 
sterile anthers and an ordinary rudiment of the ovary within the attenuate base. 
Fruit (immature) broadly ovoid (when mature globose, Hooker), 2—5 em. in diameter, 
suddenly contracted into a columnar beak 12—15 mm. long, 6—7 mm. thick, and 
terminated by the small remains of the style and stigmas; the more developed 
fruits seen by me were 53 mm. long (including the beak); the beak of the fruit 
is clothed like the body with dark brown, rhomboidal, slightly convex, obtusely 
keeled scales, arranged in numerous vertical series, and having a recurved, ascen- 
dent. setose tip. 
Hasirat.—The Malay Peninsula: Penang (Lewes ex Grifüth and No. 9435 
ex Hooker), Penang Hill, Road to Balik Pulau (Curtis ex Ridley) : in the District 
of Perak (Scortechini in Herb. Beccari): in Selangor ; Kwala Lumpur, Ulu Selan- 
gor (Ridley). Pahan: Tahan River Woods (Ridley.) 
OsseRvatIons.—Easily distinguishable, by its leaves having unequidistano, more 
or less distinetly grouped, sigmoid, concolorous leatlets ; by the male flowers being 
provided with very slender, very slightly woolly bracteoles, and consequently by the 
male spikes having a glabrous aspect ; by the branches of the female spadix bear- 
ing a solitary spike ; but especially by the fruit terminating very abruptly in a long 
and narrow beak. 
I was mistaken (Malesia, iii, 64) in referring this species to Z edulis. The 
description above is based mainly upon Scortechini’s specimens. 
PLate 52.—Zalacca glabrescens Grif:.—Male spadix having some of the spikes 
with flowers very young ; in the other the flowers are ready to expand; two spikes 
at the flowering time, intermediate portion of a leaf.. From Scortechini’s specimen 
in Herb. Beccari.» ` 
PLatE 53.—Zalacca glabrescens Grif.—Intermediate portion and lower part of a 
leaf, with a good portion of the petiole ; female spadix (or a portion of it); 
ovaries and young fruits in different degrees of development. Frum Scortechini’s 
specimen in Herb. Beccari. 
8. ZaLacca SECUNDA Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 12; Palms Brit. 
Ind. 14 pl. CLXXVII; Becc. Malesia, iii, 67; Hook. f. Fl Brit Ind. 
vi; 472. 
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