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lanceolatis (long. 14. uncialibus lat. uncialibus) supra venis 

 tribus setigeris, spadicis decompositi elongati nutantis pe- 

 dunculo bipedali ancipiti subinermi, spathis omnibus demum 

 deciduis, fructibus oblongis styli basi cuspidatis basi calyce 

 tantum circumcinctis. 



Palmij uncus verus angustifolius. Rumph. Hb. Amb. 5. 

 p. 105. /. 54. fig. 2.? 



Hab. — Malacca, C. Fernandez, sent with the name Ro- 

 tang Dodow. 



Descr.* — Sheaths very much armed with stout flat spines, broader 

 than usual, with bristles often intermixed, those along the margins, 

 which are very bristly, slenderer but not longer. The marginal ones 

 of the base of petiole subulate- triangular, and rather longer than any 

 of the others. Petiole at the base convex below, channelled broadly 

 above, armed with long irregular spines, (which about a foot from the 

 axil appear reduced to a marginal row of distant short straight teeth 

 and another similar one along the centre of the lower face,) inclusive 

 of flagellus about twelve feet long ; pinniferous portion about seven 

 feet; lower two feet naked, above the channelled part rather flat 

 above, convex below. Between the pinnae it is obtusely triangular, 

 above unarmed, below armed with solitary distant short aculei. Pinnce 

 about fourteen inches long, about an inch broad, linear-lanceolate, 

 subulato-acuminate, upper face with the central and two lateral veins 

 sparingly bristly ; under smooth ; margins and apex bristly. 



Spadix adhering to the next sheath as usual, throughout the 

 lower two or two and half feet of its length naked, unarmed, or with 

 a very few not very strong spines along the edges, compressed, dis- 

 tinctly two-edged, marked with the annulus of the first spathe, 

 which suffults the lowest branch of the spadix ; surface irregularly 

 sprinkled with brown chaffy matter. Fruit bearing part a little more 

 than eighteen inches long, rather compressed, but not two-edged. 

 Branches several, angular, themselves much divided, the lowermost 

 4-5 inches apart : without suffulting spathes. Spikes varying in 



* Specimen ; apex of a fruit bearing plant, fully expanded leaf wanting. 



