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of it with long light bristles on the upper surface; underneath the  mid-costa 
only sparsely and  minutely ciliolate ; secondary nerves rather distinct on both 
surfaces ; the margins apparently smooth, but under a lens very minutely and ap- 
pressedly spinulous; the intermediate leaflets 30-35 cm. long, 15-17 mm. broad, 
Male spadiz before flowering fusiform as usual, but not very  ventricose, axillary 
in appearance only, erect and subsessile, with a smooth unarmed pseudo-pedicellar 
part, which is adnate to the sheath and decurrent along it; outer spathe very 
firm, 30-60 cm. long, fusiform-cymbiform, very gradually attenuate into the beak, 
acutely two-keeled especially at the base, armed with laminar but rather thick 
elongate-triangular, solitary, scattered, black-tipped spines, which have a rather 
swollen and light base and are horizontal’ or slightly reversed, but never point in 
different directions; the beak is about as long as the body ; 
coriaceous; flowering axis densely cupressiform, 17 cm. 
with six or seven very approximate partial inflorescences of which the axial parts are 
densely covered with a  pulverulent and rusty indumentum, with many small 
asperities beneath; spikelets very short and few-flowered, the largest (the lower ones) 
2 cm. long, with 4-5 flowers on each side; their axis strongly zig-zag sinuous and 
distinctly scabrid when freed from the indumentum; spathels bracteiform, amplectent, 
somewhat extended externally into a circular limb; involucre cupular, truneate, with 
two small, often bristly teeth, often scabrid at the base when divested of the rusty 
indumentum by which it is covered. Male flowers oblong, obtuse, obsoletely trigonus, 
or somewhat flattened by mutual pressure, 5-6 mm, long, 2 mm. thick; the calyx 
campanulate, not deeply 3-toothed, each tooth with a small tuft of rusty hairs at 
its apex, strongly striately veined; the corolla usually a little more than twice 
long as the calyx. Female spadiz . . . Fruit. . . 
second spathe unarmed, thinly 
long (in one specimen) and 
as 
Hasrtat.—The Malayan Peninsula. Sent to Griffith from Malacca by E. 
Fernandez under — the.name “ Rotang Ayer" (“ Ayer" is water in Malay). Found 
again in the district of Perak by Father Scortechini, 
OssERvATIONS.—l have seen of this two good specimens with male spadices, 
collected by Seortechini, who in his notes declares this to be * ascending;" perhaps 
it is not so high scandent as other species, as the leaf cirri are not very loug, 
though regularly armed with rather approximate half-whorls of black-tipped, rather 
strong claws. Scortechini describes the male flowers as having the filaments of 
the stamens dilated at the base, with the anthers pendulous during the anthesis 
as in grasses, and with a very small rudimentary ovary, 3-lobed at the apex. 
It is rather easy to distinguish this species from the allied species by the leaf- 
sheaths, which are covered with broad, short, scattered spines; by its very numerous, 
closely-set, equidistant, narrow leaflets, which are bristly on three nerves above and 
sparsely ciliate on the mid-costa beneath, suddenly narrowing at the base and with 
an acuminate not bristly tip; by the outer spathe armed with flat, short and broad 
scattered spines, which have a rather swollen light base; further the axial part 
of the male spikelets is more distinetly scabrid, when divested of the dense, rusty 
indumentum, than in other species. 
