214 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



Arenga saccharifera, Lai. A few plants at Tebing Tinggi in 

 Perlis, planted. 



Caryota mitis, Lour. Perlis, Besih Hangat and Tebing Tinggi. 



Distrib. Burmah, Andamans, Cochin-China and 

 Malay peninsula. 



Nipa fruticans, Wurmb. Kedah and Perlis in tidal rivers. 



Phoenix pahidosa, Koxb. Kedah, Tidal river near Alor Sta, 

 Perlis near Tebing Tinggi. 



Distrib. India, Siam, Andamans, and South to Prov. 

 Wellesleyand Dindings. 



Licuala spinosa, Wurmb. Kedah, Alor Sta. Lankawi, Kwah 

 (Curtis). 



Distrib. Andamans and Malay peninsula and islands. 



Corypha elata, Eoxb. A tine Corypha, which I believe to be 

 C. elata, Eoxb. of Bengal and Burmah, forms a conspicu- 

 ous feature of the landscape in Kedah at Alor Sta, and 

 Perlis, Kanga, Tebing Tinggi, etc. I did not see it in 

 Setul. It had a stem about 60 or 80 feet tall rather 

 smooth and straight, about a foot and a half through. I 

 did not see the spiral traces of leaf bases figured by Griffith. 

 The leaf bases persisted for some way down the stem 

 from the top. The leaves were large but not as big as 

 those of G. iimbraculifera, rather deeply cut into narrow 

 bifid lobes, the petiole armed to the top with short, black, 

 tipped thorns. The fruit was globose, dull green with 

 rather sweet orange pulp, about 1 inch through with a short 

 stalk i inch long. We were unable to get flowers or a 

 spadix as the trees were not climbable, but the inflores- 

 cence had the same form as that of C. elata, Eoxb. and I 

 presume it belongs to that species. 



The occurrence of a Corypha here is interesting. 

 The genus comprises two Indian and one Ceylon species. 

 One from Borneo and one from the Moluccus and one from 



Jour. Straits Branch 



