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stem covered by the old leaf sheaths from which arises a 

 short thick double spathe which just protrudes above the 

 sheaths. When it opens, the short stout spadix is den- 

 sely covered with ivory white male flowers, which fall 

 off next day, and the bright crimson rachis bearing small 

 pink female flowers is seen. The rachis then elongates 

 remaining pink and bearing its small cylindric fruit. A 

 number of live plants have been sent by the discoverer 

 to the Botanic Gardens Singapore, where it seems likely 

 to do well. 



Licuala lanuginosa, n. sp. 



Leaf with a stout bluntly 3 angled petiole over a 

 foot long \ inch through, thorny for about half its 

 length, thorns conic short brown, blade 6 lobed, lobes 

 linear stiff with short broad teeth 13 inches long one 

 inch wide, with 3 or more ribs on each. Inflorescence 

 a foot long thick covered with silvery wool, branches 2 

 or three with a short thick peduncle, spikes stout 2 

 inches long thick woolly spathes silvery lacerate. 

 Flowers numerous sessile £ inch long globose. Calyx 

 broadly cylindric shortly 6 lobed covered with dense 

 shinning hair. Petals little longer ovate lanceolate 

 silky. Staminal cup 6-lobed. 



Johor, on Gunong Pulai, and Gunong Panti (Ridley). 



This species is allied to L. kiingana Becc, but the 

 flowers are larger. 



Borassus Machadonis, n. sp. 



Stem as tall and nearly as thick as a cocoanut palm, ring- 

 ed with the remains of the fallen leaves. Leaf stalk 12 to 

 15 feet long 1^ inch thick unarmeti deeply channelled 

 green, blade suborbicular 4 feet across about 6 feet long 

 split nearly to the base into sharp edged linear acuminate 

 lobes. Male inflorescence of three cylindrical catkins 14 

 inches long 1^ inch thick. Bracts oblong with an ovate 

 obtuse limb. Calyx 3 lobed, \ inch long, as long as the 

 bract, lobes oblong unequal, one with a broad rounded 

 top, the others acute, split about half way down. Corolla 



E. A Soc, No. 44, 1905 



