38 The Palms of British East India. 



trali versus apicem setigera, spadice longissimo 16-18-pe- 

 dali, spathis tubulosis longissimis armatis, ramis paucis (sub- 

 quaternis) distantibus, spicis scorpioideo-reflexis. 



C. ornatus. Blume in Syst. Veg. ed. Schultes. 7. pt. 2. p. 

 1326. Martins. Palm. p. 204. t. \\6.fig. 2. 



Hab. — In forests Malacca, fcs about Durion Toongull, E. 

 Fernandez. Malayan name, Rotang Suga Budak. 



Descr.* — A stout species, the diameter of the sheaths being about 

 two inches. Sheaths swollen under the base of the petiole, armed with 

 rather complete series of flat spines, rather short and much broader 

 than usual. Naked lower part of the petiole about three feet long, 

 somewhat flat, and channelled broadly towards the axil, much armed, 

 the spines of the lower face resembling those of the vaginae, but being 

 smaller ; those of the upper face irregular subulate from a stout base ; 

 of the pinniferous part, which is nine or ten feet long, and convex- 

 trigonal, the under convex face is armed with stout hooked aculei. 

 Pinnce rather distant, large, linear-lanceolate, two or two and quarter 

 feet long by two and a quarter inches broad, rather obtuse, general- 

 ly bifid or bi-partite at the apex, underneath glaucescent: upper 

 surface tricarinate, mid vein with stout pungent setae towards the 

 apex, as have also the margins ; apex hispid. 



Spadix of great length (sixteen to eighteen feet long) as usual ad- 

 hering to the next sheath, of these the lowest one in the specimen is 

 abortive, flagelhform, the one immediately above flower- bearing and 

 produced into a long flagellus seven or eight feet long, armed with the 

 usual aculei. It bears four branches, about two and half feet dis- 

 tance from each other, the two lowest internodes are entirely covered 

 by the long tubular sheaths, the two uppermost with the peduncle 

 exposed for a few inches at the base, and there unarmed and plano- 

 convex. 



base, armed with marginal, straight, distant solitary spines : otherwise armed along the 

 dorsum, with a row of distant solitary hooked aculei. Pinnae alternate or sub-oppo- 

 site, linear lanceolate, two feet long, two and half inches broad, acute, with five 

 prominent bristle-bearing veins above. 



In dense forests, Ching. 



* Specimen ; an entire, flowering apex of a female plant in flower. 



