NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 201 



1 inch or more long on branchlets 3 inches long, flowers 

 (female) not distichous butirregularly arranged, crowded. 

 Spathels very short green. Calyx swollen short very 

 shortly 3 lobed corolla half as long again, lobes oblong 

 obtuse. Staminodes represented by a thin membranous 

 corona with short filaments. Style short and thick, arms 

 stout. 



The whole inflorescence more resembles that of a 

 Licuala such as L. spinosa than that of a rattan. 



Pinanga limosa, n. sp. 



A small dwarf single-stemmed palm one to two feet 

 tall with strong roots. Stem ^ inch through woody 

 distinctly ringed internodes 1 inch long. Leaves a foot 

 long 6 inches wide pale green, sheaths broad, petiole 3 

 inches long, blade entire obcuneate deeply bifid at the 

 top or more ofteu split into about 5 lobes, lower ones 

 acuminate or truncate with numerous short teeth, nerves 

 numerous conspicuous. Spathe not seen, spadix deflexed 

 simple or with 3 branches slender 2 inches long. Flowers 

 distichous alternate about 28. Calyx lobes (female) short 

 broad orbicular. Fruit small ^inch long, drying subacute, 

 white oblong. 



Singapore, Selitar; Johore on Sungei Tebrau. 



This little palm inhabits wet sloppy forest swamps along 

 river banks. It is allied to P. disticha Bl. but the stems 

 are solitary and it does not branch, the leaves light green 

 and often cleft, the spadix often 3 branched and the fruit 

 smaller and blunter. 



'P. riparia, n. sp. 



Stems several distant 12 to 13 feet tall -J to 1^ inch 

 through, internodes 3-4 inches long. Leaf about 3 feet 

 long, rachis angled scurfy, blade pinnate with 3 lateral 

 lobes and one terminal bilobed one, lobes linear or linear 

 lanceolate acuminate with 3 to 6 nerves 3 to 9 inches 

 long, 1^ to 2 inches across tip entire long acuminate, 

 terminal lobes broad coarsely toothed many nerved. 



R. A. Soc, No 44, 1905. 



