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mouth truncate and armed. with spines not longer than those on the sheath. Leaves 
large, cirriferous, about 2°5 m. long in the pinniferous part; petiole. robust, about 15 
mm. broad, convex and almost smooth beneath, fattish on the upper surface where 
covered with numerous, short, conical, black-tipped prickles; the edges acute and 
prickly; the rachis, in its lower portion is, like the petiole, prickly on the upper 
surface with a furrow on each side for the insertion of the leaflets, and higher up is 
bifaced with a very acute, not prickly, salient angle; on the under surface, the rachis 
is armed but not very densely with claws at first solitary, then ternate and on the 
cirrus 5-nate and half-whorled; leaflets very numerous, rather closely set, equi- 
distant, firmly papyraceous, green, very slightly paler beneath, linear-ensiform, 
tapering very slightly towards. the base where they bend very suddenly back- 
wards, very gradually acuminate towards the apex, 3-costulate with a rather 
slender mid-costa and one strong secondary nerve on each side of it, which with 
the mid-costa beneath are furnished with several 1 cm. long, very fine, spreading, 
spadiceous bristles; transverse veinlets rather sharp, not very crowded, translucent ; 
margins, finely and rather closely spinulous; the largest leaflets (the intermediate) 
35-40 cm. long and 15 mm, broad; those nearer to the petiole are narrower 
and shorter, those towards the upper end remote, and rudimentary. Male spadiz....., 
Female spadix rigid, rather short, about 40 cm. long, in one (incomplete ?) specimen, 
(2-2:5 feet according to Rumph), with but few partial inflorescences; the peduncular 
part armed like the sheaths (Rumph); the largest partial inflorescences (in the 
specimen seen by me) about 12 cm, long, and carry distichously 5-6 spikelets on 
each side; spikelets rigid 7-8 cm. long (or at times 10-12?) with 5-8  bifarious 
flowers on each side; their axes  rusty-furfuraceous, very minutely and densely 
scabrid, sinuous, and irregularly angular; spathels represented by a very narrow 
scarious ring, very shortly apiculate at one side; involucrophorum rather thick, 
3-5 mm. long, obconical, obsoletely angular, spreading, with a narrow base, 
distinctly callous with a transverse fovea at its axilla, broader at its upper end but 
without a distinct limit; involucre very short, slightly surpassing the involucrophorum 
and terminating in a broad, flat, orbicular surface, which is bordered by a very narrow 
annular margin; areola of the neuter flower concave, niche-like, broader than high, 
the scar punctifurm, not swollen. Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit comparatively 
large, spherical, very shortly and suddenly beaked, 23-24 mm. in diameter; scales 
very narrowly and neatly grooved along the centre, regularly rhomboidal, glossy, 
of a uniform light-brown colour with a very narrow lighter scarious margin, the 
tips obtuse. Seed globular, coarsely pitted, 14 mm. in diameter, ruminated almost 
to the centre with numerous very narrow channels, filled with a very dark stuff; 
embryo basal, penetrating almost to the centre of the albumen; chalazal fovea 
 sub-apical, narrow, circular, deep, obliquely penetrating quite to the centre of the 
seed, and almost opposite to the embryo. 
Hasrrat.—Amboina on the mountains at Hitoo according to Rumph, who gives 
the following vernacular names for it: Malayan name *'Rotang Calappa” on account 
of its apical bud or ‘ cabbage,” which is eatable like that of the ‘‘Calappa tree” 
(Cocos nucifera) : Amboinese names “Ua Hahulu” or the “Hairy Rotang," and 
also * Ua Niwel"—the ^niwel" is the “Cocoa tree—” and also “Ua mamina” for 
