NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 41 



blunter. Drupe cylindric curved, slightly narrowed to- 

 wards the tip, black, half inch long. Seed cylindric acute 

 curved rugose f inch long ; albumen equable. 



On the Thaiping Hills common from about 2000 feet 

 elevation upwards (10684; 11405 of my collection) and 

 Bujong Malacca (Curtis 3164). This palm has the habit 

 of I.polgmorpha, Becc, but the stouter inflorescence on a 

 longer peduncle and covered with red wool, the larger 

 flowers, and curved cylindric fruit, make it very distinct. 

 The Iguanuras are not an easy group of palms to 

 separate, as they are apt to be very variable especially in 

 the form of the inflorescence. There appear to be seven 

 kinds at present known from the Peninsula. The com- 

 monest species is I. geonomceformis, Mart. A lowland species 

 with usually one simple spike. Of this there are the 

 following forms : (a) typica, with a simple stout tomentose 

 spike, (b) ramosa, a similar spike but branched, with 2 or 

 3 branches, (cj malaccensis, with a slender glabrous simple 

 spike (occasionally branched). The leaves of all these 

 forms may be quite entire. /. Wallichiana, Hook fil, with 

 a compound inflorescence of several slender branches, is 

 allied to this latter form. It also varies in the form of 

 the leaves. Two plants described by Hooker and Beccari 

 from Scortechini's collection, viz., I. diffusa and 7. parvula, 

 appear to me to be forms of these speciea. The first is a 

 large plant with an inflorescence more compound, the 

 second a dwarf abnormal form. I have only however 

 seen sketches of them and very little of the plants appears 

 to have been collected. /. corniculata has also only once 

 been collected. The fruit is curiously curved, and is 

 possibly abnormal, /. polymorpha, Becc, including /. brevi- 

 pes, Hook, fil., is a distinct plant, not rare on the Thaiping 

 Hills. I. ferruginea is allied to it but seems to me to be 

 distinct. I. bicorms has curiously bilobed fruit, and occurs 

 also on the Thaiping Hills, but seems to be rare. 

 Livistona rupico/a, n. sp. Stem short and thick about 3 feet long 

 and 6 inches through, densely covered with brown fibers 

 from the leaf sheaths. Leaves orbicular about 2 feet 

 across with about 12 leaflets rather narrow very acu mi- 

 ll A. Soc, No. 41, 1903. 



