NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 39 



Leaves concolorous or a little paler along- the back about 

 3 feet long-, sheath tubular, petiole 8 inches long, leaflets 

 sigmoid acuminate about 13, sub-opposite, terminal one 

 forked; 12 inches long by 3 inches wide or less, nerves 

 5 to 7. Spike branched erect 4 inches long, with 5 

 branches. Spathe thin boat-shaped papery with a short 

 point brownish pink 1-^ inch long. Rachis cream color 

 scurfy, flowers distichous. Males \ inch long-, ivory 

 white. Sepals very small acute. Petals oblique ovate 

 acuminate much larger. Stamens 14 white, filaments 

 very short, anthers oblong 1 , no pistillode. Female petals 

 and sepals broadly oblong pink, edges ciliate, stigma 

 small, sessile papillose circular white. 



This pretty palm occurs in Sing-apore in forests at 

 Bukit Timah, Mandai, Stagmount and Selitar, and is No. 

 11267 of my collections. I have not seen it outside Singa- 

 pore, and it is rather scarce there. 

 PtfjClwraphis longiflora, n. sp. Habit and stems of Pt. Singaporensis. 

 Leaf three feet or more long, rachis brown scurfy, leaf- 

 lets linear acuminate 5-ribbed, alternate about 40 pairs 

 18 inches long, -J inch wide. Peduncle stout 1 inch long 

 ribbed and scurfy, branches of inflorescence slender 4 or 

 5 scurfy, 6 or 7 inches long. Flowers in distinct pairs, 

 one male and one female together about 20 pairs on a 

 branch; males -^ inch long, with two orbicular gibbous 

 bracts at the base. Calyx lobes orbicular fringed. Petals 

 lanceolate obtuse much longer. Stamens 6 shorter than 

 the petals, filaments with a broad base narrowed upwards, 

 anthers oblong dorsifixed. Pistillode conic stout as 

 long as the stamens. Female flowers. Bract single 

 small. Sepals orbicular ciliate. Petals ovate orbicular 

 imbricate, pistil ovoid. 



Johore on the top of Gunong Banang at Batu Pahat, 

 (Ridley 1121). Besides this there are two other species 

 of this genus described. Pt. Singaporensis, Becc, the Ko- 

 rintin palm, abundant in the South of the Peninsula, and Pt. 

 augusta of the Nicobars, a plant of totally different habit. 

 This new species closely resembles Pt. Singaporensis, but 

 the petals of the male are very much longer. 



Ii A. Soc, No. 41, 1908. 



