Oncoiperma.] oLkiii. palmb^e. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 415 



Malay Peninstjla ; in swamps. — Distrib. Borneo, Cochin China. 



Trunk 80-40 ft., armed with long black spines. Leaves many, 10-12 ft., 

 drooping; leaflets 2 ft., narrow, acuminate, pendulous, eoriaceoiis, many. nerved, 

 scurfy beneath ; petiole armed, scurfy.- Spathes boat-shaped, 2-keeled, outer armed, 

 inner velvety. Spadix shortly produced, peduncle slightly armed, branches many, 

 long, flexuous, upper simple ; fruiting 1-2 ft., pendulous, red-purple. Male fi. ; 

 sepals cuspidate, keeled ; petals suddenly acuminate, tip setifei-ous ; filaments short ; 

 anthers deeply bifid below. Fern. fl. ; sepals and petals fleshy. 



2. O. horrlda, Scheff. in Natuwrh. Tijdseh. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 189 ; in 

 Ann. Ja/rd. Buitenz. i. 159 ; stolonifevouB, leaflets subequidistant spreading, 

 male fl. Viexandrous, fruit spherical f-1 in. diam. Areoa horrida, Griff, in 

 Oale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 465 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 158, t. 233 ; Mart. 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 812. 



Malay Peninsula, Griffith.— Disibib. Borneo. 



Frunlc 30-40 ft., armed. Leaves few, spreading, 14-16 ft. ; leaflets ii-3 ft., very 

 narrow, acuminate, spreading, coriaceous. Spathes 2 complete, acutely margined, outer 

 I-I5 ft., armed, inner cuspidate. Spadix with the stout peduncle armed below ; branches 

 1-2 ft., pendulous, flexuous ; fruiting with pendulous branches 2-3 ft. long. Fruit 

 purplish black. — Griffith, from whom the above descriptions are taken, says of this 

 allied to A. tillgiaria, but very distinct in the spathes and fruit. 



3. O. fasciculata, Thw. Enum. 328 ; stoloniferous, leaflets fascicled 

 tips drooping, flowers eaneandrous, frnit J in. diam. Scheff. in Ann. Jard. 

 Buitenz. i. 160. Oaryotu. horrida, Moon Oat. Geyl. PI. 64. 



Ceylow ; in the Central Province, ascending to 5000 ft. 



Trvnk 80-40 ft. and more, 5-6 in. diam., armed. Leaves 18 ft. ; leaflets 12-18 

 by 1-lf in., lanceolate, long-acuminate, costa scaly beneath ; sheath 2^ ft., armed 

 and scurfy. Spathes sparingly scurfy, unarmed. Spadix 2 ft., unarmed, panicu- 

 lately branched, densc-fld. Male fl. i in. long. Drupe black-purple. 



8. IGUANUBA, Blwme. 



Slender unarmed palms. Leaves terminal, entire or pinnatisect, with 

 broad acute or prsemorse leaflets. Spathes 2, persistent, short. Spadix 

 inter- or infra-foliar, branches spreading ; flowers spirally disposed, 3-nate 

 (a fern, between 2 males), or the upper on the branches males. Male fl. 

 symmetric ; sepals orbicular, imbricate ; petals connate below, ovate or 

 lanceolate, valvate ; stamens 6 or 9, anthers dorsifixed; pistillode trigo- 

 nous. Fern. fl. subglobose ; sepals and petals orbicular; staminodes of 6 

 teeth ; ovai-y ovoid or oblong, 1-3-celled ; stigmas sessile ; ovule solitary, 

 parietal. Fruit small, oblong ovoid or elongate conical, stigmas sub- 

 basilar. Seed suberect, hilum lateral ; albumen equable or ruminate. — 

 Species 8-10, Malayan. 



* Spadix interfoliar, very long and long peduncled, simple or with 2-3 

 long equal pendulous branches. 



1. I. g'eonomaeformis, MaH. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 229, 178 ; stem 

 slender, leaves pinnate, leaflets 6-8 pairs obliquely acuminate or prsemor^e 

 and erosely toothed, spadix furfuraceous, branches thick, fruit obovoid- 

 oblong. Slackia geonoraseformis, Oriff. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 469 ; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 162, t. 234. 



Malacca. Tiithev common in forests, Oriff. (i'ew distrib. 6406, 6407), on Mt 

 Ophir, HuUett (851). 



