480 oLxiii. PALMEiE. (Beocari & Hook, f.) [Pledoeomiopsis. 



Stem slender, attaining 80 ft. Sheaths striate, sparsely priokly, uppermost nn- 

 armed. Leaves 6-10 ft. ; leaflets 5-10 by i in., finely acuminate, keel sparsely 

 bristly above, smooth beneath. Spadices many, from the uppermost leaf-sheatbs, 

 which bear a simple armed flagellum and no leaflets; lower 4-5 in., with 4-5 pendu- 

 lous spikes each 6-8 in. long. Spathes short, tubular, like the secondary spathes of 

 Calamus. Spiies flexuous, rusty -pubescent j flowers 2-bracteolate, outer bracteole 

 minute, inner auricular. Fruit immature ; pericarp spongy ; scales brown, with 

 whitish fimbriate margins. 



2. P. "WrsLjil, Seea. mss. ; leaves petioled, fruit gloliosely ovoid shortly 

 narrowed at the top with about 23 rows of scales. 



Malay Pkninsttla ; Perak, Wray (2421 ? ) ; Herb. Mart. Calcutt. (5282 ? , 

 3447 c?). 



Very near P. geminifionts ; distinguished by the longer petiole and fruit. 



3. P. paradoxus, Becc. mss. ; leaves shortly petioled, leaflets lanceo- 

 late scattered in distant pairs shortly acuminate, spadices biEariously 

 decompound, spathels tubular, male spikelets exserted recurved. Calamus 

 paradoxus, Xurz in. Jov/rn. As. Soc. xliii. (1874) ii. 213, t. 29, 30 ; For. 

 Flor. ii. 521. 



Maetaban, Kurt. 



Stem with the sheaths 1-2 in. diam. Leaves 5-7 ft. ; leaflets 1-1^ ft. by 1 in., 

 in alternate pairs, thin, obscurely remotely appressedly ciliolate ; petiole armed, 

 sheath with pectinate spines; flagellum very long. Spat/ies tabular, smooth, 

 obliquely truncate and acuminate ; spathels similar, but much smaller, distiohously 

 imbricated ; bracts spreading, glabrous. Fern. fi. and fruit unknown. 



30. DXVRXAXiEFXS, Becc. mss. 



Characters as far as known of Plectocomiopsis, but the minute scales 

 of the fruit are disposed without order. — Species 2, a Bornean and the 

 following. 



IH. Scortechlni, Bece. mss. 



Malay Peninsula; Perak, Scortechini (n. 457''). 



Leaves unknown. Fern. fl. solitary in the spathels ; calyx 3-lobed ; corolla rather 

 longer. Fruit globose ; scales acuminate, tips not recurved ; mesocarp between 

 spongy and corky. Seed globose; albumen horny, equable. — Differs from the 

 Bornean species (if. triqueter^ Becc, Calamus triq^ueteTy Becc, Malesia, iii. 62) in 

 the obtusely angled trigonous sparsely spinous leat-sheaths. The specimens are very 

 impertiect. 



31. ETTGBISSONZA, Chiff. 



Tnfted monocarpio spinous palms. Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets lanceo- 

 late ; rachis armed, not flagelliferous. Spadix terminal, erect, thyrsiform, 

 clothed below with reduced flagelliferous leaf-sheaths; branches erect, 

 clothed with gubdistichous obtuse spathes passing into bracts and brac- 

 teoles. Flowers large, coriaceous, solitary or 2-3-nate, 1-2-sexnal. Male 

 fl. calyx onpnlar, 3-fid; petals elongate-lanceolate, pungent, valvate ; 

 stamens about 12, anthers elongate, basifixed. Fe-m. fl. larger ; perianth 

 accrescent ; calyx of the male ; petals with a dilated base and transverse 

 crest of hairs ; ovary oblong, 3-celled, stigmas flattened. Fruit ovoid, 

 narrowed into a very broad obtuse beak, 1-celled, 1-seeded, scales minute ; 

 endocarp osseous. Seed ovoid, 6-12-grooved ; albumen equable ; embryo 

 basilar, — Species about 6, Malayan. 



