Licuala.] olxiii. palmb*). (Beooari & Hook, f.) 431 



Malacca J Qriffith. Pebak, SeortecUni, King's Collector, 7339, 8534. — 

 DisTEiB. Siam. 



8tem 4-10 ft. 3-9 in. diara., smooth. Leaves 3 ft. diam. ; petiole 1-2 ft., spines 

 few short, recurved ; sheaths very fibrous. Spathes f in. broad, mouths lacerate. 

 Spadise very stout; branches 4-8 in., spreading and recurved ; flowers sessile. Calyn 

 cup-shaped, -^ in. broad. Petals ovate. Fruit spherical, i in. diam. — ^Griffith 

 observes that this species approaches Z. spinosa, but is abundantly distinct by its 

 smooth stem, which does not look much like the stem of a Palm, and by the small 

 smooth turbinate flowers. I doubt Kurz's Andaman plant being the same, it has 

 shortly tomentose branches of the spadix and flowers. 



3. Xi. longripes, Griff, in Gala. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 330 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 125, t. 22i A, B ; stem very short, leaves orbicular about 20-partite, 

 segments cuneate crenate lateral obliquely truncate terminal about 11- 

 toothed, crenatures 2-fid crenulate, petiole shortly armed, spathes short; 

 broad, spadices much shorter than the petioles, branches spreading and 

 flowers glabrous or pubescent, calyx cylindric, base truncate, petals cordate- 

 lanceolate, ovary villous. Kurz in Journ. As. Soo. Beng. xliii. 204 ; For. 

 Fl. ii. 528. 



Tenasserim ; forests in Mergui. Maiaoca, Griffith, Kun. 



Leaves 3-4 it. diam. ; petiole 4-5 ft., trigonous, deeply channelled above, 

 glabrous ; spines very variable in size and number, but never long. Spathes 3-6 in. 

 long by i in. broad, compressed, deeply lacerate at the mouth. Spadix stout and 

 flowers sparsely or sometimes densely pubescent ; branches stout, curved and spread- 

 ing; flowers sessile. Calyx shortly lobed, lobes 2-fid. PeiaZs very short. Oeary 

 villous. Vruit seated on the pedicel-like perianth. — The cyliudric calyx with a broad 

 truncate base is a good character. 



** Spadix with 3-6 digitately branched or forked iafloreseenoes. 



f Branches of spadix and Jlowers pubescent or scurfy. 



4. Xi. spinosa, Wurmh. in Verh. Bat. Genooisch. ii. 469; leaves 

 orbicular-reniform sub 18-partite, lateral segments obliquely premorso 

 3-4-lobed or 2-partite, median 10-11-lobed, petiole armed throughout, spadix 

 with many finely pubescent dense-fld. spikes and flowers, fruiting calyx 

 carnpanulate, petals very small, ovary glabrous, fruit obovold. Soxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 1 81 ? [excl. syn. Humph.) ; Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Mist, v, 321 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 119 ; Blume Bumph. ii. 39, t. 82, 88 : Mart. Hist. Nat. 

 Palm. iii. 235, 318, t. 135, 1, 2 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 53 ; 8uppl. 254, 

 Becc. Males, iii. 74. L. paludosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. 528 ; 

 For. Fl. ii. 528. L. ramosa, Bl. in Schult. Syst. vii. 1303 ; Bumphia, ii. 39 

 L. horrida, Blume Rumph. ii. 41, t. 89, f. 1 : Mart. I. c. 237, 318. 



Malacca, QrijffitTi. Andaman Islands, Kurz, Man. — Dismin. Malay 

 Islands. 



Stems 8-10 ft., stont, 2-4 in. diam., densely tufted, rough with scars of fallen 

 leaves, ieaue* 4 ft. diam. ; petiole obtusely trigonous, spines stout curved; ligule 

 1-1^ in., scarions. Spathes very long, scurfy, f in. diam., mouths lacerate. Spadix 

 rather longer than the leaves ; branches 7-10, adnate to the rachis up to the mouth 

 of the spathes j lower compound, spreading, generally secund ; flowers 2-3-nate. 

 Calyx lobed to the middle. Petals broadly lanceolate, acuminate. Fruit obovoid, 

 i in. long, pedicelled by the calyx-tube, red. — lieccari (mss.) refers Kurz's 

 Andaman L. paludosa to spinosa, I think rightly (/. D. K.). 



5. Xi. malayana^ Becc Males, iii. 197 ; leaves peltately digitate, seg- 

 ments 20-26, teeth very short broad obtuse, petiole very long spinous at 



