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also are described as scarcely exserted, and the bractese as 

 confluent at the base. 



II. — Flores polygamo-monoici, vel dioici, flori faemineoflos 

 neuter adjectus. 



4. (4) Z. macrostachya, (n. sp.) pinnis interrupte fascicu- 

 latis (fasciculis distantibus) lanceolato-spathulatis acuminatis- 

 simis infra medium setoso-serratis, spadicibus elongatis apice 

 nutante humifusis, spathis distantibus, spicis (faemineo-neu- 

 tris) pedicellatis, ovario strigosissimo, fructibus irregulariter 

 oblongo-ovatis cuspidato-rostratis hispidis. 



Hab. — In marshy, exceedingly shady places, Ching near 

 Malacca. Rungum of the Malays of Malacca. 



Descr. — Habit of Z. edulis, like which it forms tufted plants. It is, 

 however, a stouter species. Petioles stout, for seven or eight feet above 

 the base not bearing pinnae, but more highly armed than usual with the 

 characteristic spines, the larger of which are in oblique, nearly com- 

 plete verticils. Pinnce more interruptedly fasciculate, their direction 

 (always curved or nutant) however, and shape are much the same ; 

 on the whole perhaps they are larger. 



Spadices very long, so much so in fact as to reach the ground, 

 on which, and often immersed in water, which abounds in the locali- 

 ties, the spikes of flowers will be found. Peduncles in the part 

 not covered by the spathes covered with thick brown wool. Spathes 

 of the usual nature, but much more distant; they are generalty 

 longer, except the lowermost, than the solitary amenta. Spikes 

 three inches long, an inch nearly in diameter, stalked ; the stalks of 

 the lowermost very long, and all provided with smaller spathes. 

 Bract ece rounded, tinged with pink. Bracteolce at least of the herma- 

 phrodite flower, rounded, distinct, villoso-ciliate. 



Flowers lilac-pink ; in the axil of each bracte one large one 

 female, and on one side of this a much smaller one, neuter. Calyx 

 of the larger flower 3-partite to the middle, the segments oblong, 

 concave, not very rigid. Petals united to their middle, (below which 



