LicuaJ.a.] clxiii. PALMBiE. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 433 



Stem Z-i fc, 1-1^ in. diam. Leaves 2-3 ft. diam. ; petiole 4-5 ft., plano- 

 convex. Spathes 3-6' in. narrow, oylindric, the lower a little eompreased, mouth 

 oblique bifid, tipa quite entire. Spadix 4 ft. (in King's specimens), perfectly 

 glabrous throughout, raohia quite smooth, furrowed when dry ; branches 4-6 in., 

 divaricate ; flowers subsessile. Calym obscurely 3-lobed. petals twice as long, 

 acuminate. Yoxmg fruit ellipsoid, narrowed at both ends, keeled, 4 in. long, 

 stipitate by the calyx tube and spreading petals, tipped by the remains of the 

 abortive carpels. 



II. Spathes compressed, split on one side (tubular in L. Kingii). 



* Spadix with 2 or more superposed simple or branched inflorescences. 



9. Xi> modesta, Becc. Males, iii. 195 ; stem elongate, leaves semi- 

 circular, segments very many narrowly ouneate, petiole very long spinous 

 towards tlie base only, spathes flattened acutely 2-edged glabrous margins 

 of mouth quite entire, branches of spadix and flowers fulvous pubescent, 

 staminal cup 6-lobed, ovary glabrous. 



PeeAK; Maxwell hill, Scortechini, alt. 8300 ft.; Larut, King's Collector (1945, 

 1951, 1983, 2i20, 3243). 



Stem 2-10 ft. Leares palmately multifid ; segments 2-3 nerved ; petiole 3-4 ft., 

 spines short recurved. tSjpaiAes 4-6 long by ^ in. broad, flat, glabrescent. Spadix 

 16-30 in. J branches spreading ; flowers seated on small tubercles j calyx campanulate, 

 lobes very short tipped with hairs ; corolla rat her longer; style subulate. Fruit glo- 

 bosely obovoid, about ^ in. long, pedicelled by the calyx. — Difticult to distinguish 

 from acatifida. 



10. Xi. Kunstleri, Seco. ; stem robust, leaves long-petioled, mid- 

 segment not petiolulate, petiole armed at the base, spathe much com- 

 pressed furfuraceous mouth not lacerate, branches of spadix very scurtily 

 and rustily hairy, flowers pedicelled pubescent. 



Perak ; on triu Bubong, Kunstler (10,205). 



Stem 4 ft. by 4-5 in. diam. Calym campanulate, base narrowed, pubescent ; 

 petals rather longer. — Only a solitary imperfect specimen seen, well characterized by 

 the pedicelled flowers. Allied to acutifida, diff'ering in the robust stem, much 

 broader leaf -s.'egm ents, and longer floral pedicels. 



11. Zi. acutifida, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 236, t. 135, f. 3, 4 (excl. 

 Syn. fioxb.) ; stem slender, leaves many long-petioled, segments 15-20 

 very narrow terminating in long narrow bifid lobes, median petiolulate, 

 petiole very slender shortly armed and furfuraceous towards the base, 

 spadix spathes and flowers furfuraceously velvety, flowers seated on a 

 rather prominent pedicel, calyx obconic. Oriff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 V. 327 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 122, t. 222 A, B ; Wall. Cat. 8618. 



PBNANa, Lewis, Omley. SlNOAPORE, Lohh. 



Stem 15-20 ft., 1-2 in. diam. Leaves 1-2 ft. diam., segments 1-3-costate ; 

 terminal lobes ^-1 in. ; petiole 18-48 in. ; lifjule elongate. Spathes paleaceonsly 

 scurfy, 2-lobed, 4-6 in. long by J in. diam., silkily or silverily paleaceous. Spadix 

 12-18 in. ; spikes 3-5 in., simple or forked, adnata to the raohis, lower flowers 

 2-nate, upper solitary; calyx obtusely 3-fid, pubescent; petals striate. Ovary 

 obovoid, smooth ; style filiform. Fruit f in. diam., stipitate by the calyx. Seed 

 pisiform. 



12. Ii. pusilla, Becfl. Males, iii. 194 ; stemless, leaves palmately 9-fid, 

 segments very narrow, median 3-fid on 3-partite shortly and obtusely 

 toothed, lateral with very oblique tips having several short and one long 



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