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MALACCA. 



folia) I mean the arborescent one, answers for boat building. Tam- 

 pah Artocorpus, Calamus common about Ching, the petiole is used 

 for baskets and also for working Artup. 



Epoo. Arbor toxicaria. Ching, properties, very fatal to fowls and 

 dogs. Jelortoong milk tree the giant of the forest, and a magnificent 

 tree, but worthless wood. 



Palms, Rungum, is Zalaccce sp. leaves 18 ft. long, the petiole 

 throughout is armed underneath with incomplete verticels of stout 

 strong long flat spines. Pinnae ascending, patent, generally more 

 or less fasciculated, outline linear spathulate, above with three stout 

 carinate veins, spines serrate distinctly striate, leaves much like those 

 of Zalacca, but the leaflets are more crowded and the armature is 

 greater. 



Inflorescence — spadix, very long, slender, nutant, pendulous to- 

 wards the apex, with long narrow brown ferruginous split sheath, 

 upper ones nearly black, each much longer than the lower, and 

 nourishing a digitate stout cylindrical pluri-seriate-flowered spike, 

 spikes at the apex sometimes radiant. Flowers unequal, one large, 

 and one small. 



Fruit oblong obovate, often curved apiculate, passing into a stout 

 style with a stigma-bearing apex, rough from recurved bristles of 

 scales, 3 seeds in the fruit. 



Rotan inconspicua. 



Scandens, vagina irregularly armed, spines deflexed, rarely in com- 

 pletely verticillate, about 2^ inches below petiole, gibbous, margines 

 brown scarious dental irregular. 



Petiole trigon or plano-convex, armed on convex dors. Pinnulae 

 distant, 1-1 J foot long, linear lanceolate, very acuminate passing into 

 a subulate bristle, plane or laovis with the exception of above the 

 centre carinate vein, above dark green with beautiful irregular un- 

 dulate incomplete white lines. Spadix supra axilla and opposite axiles 

 small, outer spath nearly complete flagellate, acuminate, boat shaped 

 scarious on dorsum armed, thence to each branch of inflorescence 

 smooth, scarious. 



Ebool occurs only on the slope and base of hill, near Ching, 

 close to the road, I did not go within 50 yards of it, as the jungle 

 was very thick, and no flowers or fruit were seen. It is a lofty Palm 

 with the habit of a Cocos, yet different. The trunk is distinctly an 

 nulated, unarmed, and said to be like that of Cocos. The crown is 



