204 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [E. insignis. 
spines being gradually feebler above, finally disappearing near the upper end ; m leaves 
of young plants the petiole and the rhachis are densely sprinkled with very dark, 
‘very appressed scales. The rhachis is smooth and has a very sharp salient angle 
above. Whe leaflets, in leaves of young plants, are subequidistant ; but in full 
grown plants are in pairs or in threes on each side of the rhachis; the largest 
of them (which are the intermediate ones) are as much as 1 m. in length, and 
: 25—30 mm. in breadth; all have the mid-costa sharp and much raised, and 
furnished with long distant bristles; the upper leaflets are gradually smaller, 
Spadix very large, cupressiform, rising erect from the centre of the crown, about 
4 mm. high, composed of numerous short branches, appressed to the main axis, 
but with their apices spreading or outcurved; these primary branches bear 
unilaterally at every. spathe a secondary branch, occasionally divided again; the 
lower divisions carry many flowers, the upper have gradually fewer. Primary 
spathes spinous; the spathes of the branches smooth, but at times with a 
straggling spine or two on their backs. The anthodia are more or less pedicellate 
and covered with numerous spathels (as many as 20—22 if the pedicellar part is 
very elongate), are oblong, slightly ventricose, about 4 em. long not taking into 
account the  pedicellar part, and 15 mm. across. The fully developed lowers 
including the anthodium are 10 em. long; the full grown  flower-buds are 
distinctly falcate, obsoletely-trigonous, very gradually acuminate-pungent ; the calyx 
is tubular-campanulate, 25 mm. long, usually 3-toothed, the teeth obtuse or acute, 
but at times&the calyx is almost entire and truncate; the corolla has a short basal 
entire part, 18—20 mm. in length; its divisions are convex and polished externally, 
concave and striate internally, very narrow (6 mm. wide); the part outside the 
anthodium is 6 cm. in length; stamens numerous, 50 lor more; the filaments about 
1 em. long; anthers very narrowly linear, unequal, about 4 cm. long; ovary (at the 
time of the maturity of the anthers) small, oblong, 7—8 mm. long: the stigmati- 
ferous style is trigonous, 2'5 mm. long. Fruit 10—10°5 cm. long, 6 cm. across, 
obovoid, very! obsoletely trigonous, very suddenly contracted into a stout obtusely 
trigonous-pyramidate blunt rostrum, 15—18 mm. long, and terminated by the 
persistent very small style. Scales almost of a uniform dark chestnut-brown 
colour, very small; the largest 1°5 mm. broad, lanceolate, very acuminate, disposed 
in very many vertical series, so as to give to the entire fruit the appearance of 
being very closely striate longitudinally. The pericarp on the whole is 7 mm: 
thick in its intermediate part; the endocarp alone is 3 mm. thick; the cavity is 
divided very regularly into 12 incomplete dissepiments, of which the three principal 
penetrate very deeply (nearly to the centre of the fruit) and are distinctly bilobed 
in transverse section at their internal free end, 3 are somewhat shorter, and 6 
shorter still. Seed 45—48 cm., in diameter, 6 cm. long, ivory-bony, fissured in 
the centre, conspicuously marked by as many deep furrows as there are dissepi- 
ments in the endocarpal eavity to which the seed is moulded. 
Hapirar.—Borneo : on Mount Mattang, near Kuching in Sarawak, at 7—890 m. 
elevation (Beccari P. B. No. 2010). I have observed the same plant growing ' also 
on the tops of other hills near the sources of the Sarawak river, and on 
Mt. .Linga, near the mouth of the Batang “Lupar. Native name  "Djatto" 
* Kadjatto" or “ Kadjattao." 
