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been prepared from plants growing a long time ago in the 

 Gardens ; these, had the petioles been flagelliferous, I should 

 have referred to C. latifolius. 



The inflorescence varies a good deal as to smoothness ; in 

 some of the more advanced specimens, the margins of the 

 bractes even are nearly smooth. 



It approaches especially by its inflorescence to C. lati- 

 folius, but that plant has flagelliferous petioles. 



26. (16) C. insignis, (n. sp.) aculeis vaginarum sparsis coni- 

 co-subulatis, petiolorum infra pinnas dorsalibus uncinatis in- 

 tra pinnas supra medium marginalibus superadditis, pinnis 

 distanter et irregulariter alternis (senis cum terminali sequila- 

 terali profunde biloba) cuneato-lanceolatis vel obovatis sub- 

 tus concavis glaucis apice obtusiusculo tantum setigeris. 



Hab. — Malacca, E. Fernandez. Malayan name, Rotang 

 Bhattoo. 



Descr.* — Stem slender, not thicker than a common quill, or in- 

 cluding the sheaths about four lines in diameter. Sheaths about 

 a span long, with a few scattered conical subulate prickles. Leaves 

 19-20 inches long ; petiole below the pinnae about 5 inches long, 

 roundish, above triangular, armed throughout along the centre of 

 under surface with small hooked prickles, and above the middle of 

 the pinniferous part with similar ones along the margins; pinna 

 irregularly and distantly alternate, five in number, exclusive of the 

 terminal equilateral deeply bilobed one, cuneato-lanceolate, sessile, 

 distinctly concave underneath with inflexed margins, glaucous-ca- 

 rinate above, with many parallel veins and transverse venules, and 

 a short obtuse point, which is the only part bearing bristles. Fla- 

 gellus united to the sheaths high up, very slender (the longest about 

 a foot long) armed with the ordinary prickles. 



* Specimens : an entire upper part of a stem, not in flower. 



