200 NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Hawaian species than to the New Caledonia one. I cannot 

 recall any parallel case of such a distribution of any 

 genus in our flora, unless one compares it with the large 

 genus Cyrtandra in Gesneracece which attains its maxi- 

 mum of developement in the Sandwich islands and spreads 

 through the Malay islands as far as to the peninsula where 

 it dies out towards the North. 



I am indebted to Mr. A. B. Rendle of the British 

 Museum for aid in identifying this very curious plant. 



Palm^:. 



C. Lindeni, Hort. 



This rattan from the Philippines is only known from 

 its foliage as a pot plant, in cultivation. A full grown 

 female plant has flowered several times in the Botanic 

 Gardens Singapore, so I herewith describe it. The plant 

 itself so exactly resembles C. lobbianus Becc. of Singa- 

 pore that it is impossible to distinguish it when out of 

 flower. The stem is about 12 feet long densely covered 

 with the sheaths which are densely bristly brown. The 

 rattan has joints 3 inches long 1 inch through ; the flagella 

 about 10 feet long covered with half circles of black 

 tipped hooks except on the very slender narrow 

 sheaths about 3 or 4 on each flagellum. The leaf 

 is about 3 feet long, petiole 6 inches and | 

 inch wide flat above and covered with brown scurf armed 

 with short sharp thorns along the edge, and longer 

 needle like ones at the base. Leaflets very numerous 

 and close alternate equidistant 8 inches long J inch wide 

 linear setaceously acuminate green above white beneath 

 with scattered black bristles above and beneath on the 

 nerves and tip. Spadices 2 or 3 erect 3^-4 feet tall, 

 peduncle J inch wide whitish scurfy armed with a circular 

 thorns j inch long or less along the edges. Spathes 

 silvery scurfy 5 or 6 unarmed lower ones 9 inches long 

 with a long irregularly torn limb 2 inches long. Bran- 

 ches recurved about 6 paniculate 6 inches long. Spathels 

 scurfy tubular not dilated upwards with no limb. Spikes 



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