CLVI. PALMACE^ 
Iguanura^ 
15 
Penang Hill (Porter, Wall. Cat. 8600). Kelantan, Chaning. Naiive 
name: Pinang Sapadan. 
(4) I. diffusa in Hook. fil. F.B.I. vi. 416. 
A nearly stemless tufted palm. Leaves 3 to 4 ft. long, with 
very numerous linear acuminate leaflets i ft. long or more, i in. 
wide, prominently 2-nerved, pale beneath. Spadices numerous, 
compound, branched, velvety hairy, branches spreading, 6 in. 
across. Flowers, male white, *05 in. long, sunk in sockets with 
hairy mouths. Sepals gibbous at base, oblique, hairy on edge and 
tip, oblong, as long as petals. Petals ovate. Stamens 6, dorsilixed. 
Hab. Mountain forests. Scarce. Perak, Thaiping Hills, Gunong 
Ijuk (hijau) (Scortechini). Kelantan, Chaning Woods (Ridley). 
I have only seen a small pencil drawing of Scortcchini's plant, and the 
description is very short and incomplete, but 1 think the Kelantan plant here 
described is Beccari’s species. 
(5) I. corniculata Males, iii. 187; Ridl. Mat. ii. 152. 
Stems slender, 3 to 4 ft. tall, barely -25 in. through. Leaves 
10 to 12 ill. long, 6 to 8 in. wide; leaflets 5 hi 6 pairs, cuneate and 
trapezoid, 3-5 to 4 in. long, i to 1-5 in. wide, tip broad dentate 
with a long point at upper edge, scurfy beneath; petioles 4 in. 
long. Spike simple, 8 to 12 in. long (of which the peduncle is 
3 in. long), scurfy. Spathe i, tubular, bruit narrow elongate, 
horn-shaiied. tip incurved, -5 to 75 in. long, -2 in. through. Hab. 
Rare in forests, Perak, Selama (Kunstler). Kelantan, Chaning 
Woods (Ridley). Native name: Pinang Angin. 
(6) I. polymorpha Becc. Males, iii. 182. I. brevipes Hook. fil. 
F.B.I. vi. 416. 
Stems 3 to 7 ft. tall, -25 in. through. Leaves 8 to 15 m. long, 
with 4 to 12 trapezoid acuminate leaflets, 4 in. long, 175 to 3 in. 
wide; sheaths large, 3 to 6 in. long. Peduncle 4 in. long, branches 
of panicle 6 to 9, slender, 6 in. long. Flowers very small, scattered. 
Petals oblong blunt. Drupe ovoid or elliptic-ovoid. Hab. Moun¬ 
tain woods. Perak, Thaiping Hills; Bujong Malacca. Kelantan, 
Glam Woods, Kota Bharu (Ridley). Rahman, Kota Bharu 
(G Wynne-Vaughan). , 1 . 1 
var. canina Becc. l.c. 190. Branches more numerous and thick, 
flowers sub-distichous, Perak, Thaiping Hills. 
(7) I. fermginea Becc. in Hook, fil, I.B.I, vi. 43 ^ J Rial. 
Mat. ii. 162. 
Stem very short or 0. Leaves about 10; leaflets 10 to 13, 
apices with blunt teeth; central leaflet much the biggest, 3 ft. long, 
I to 9 in. wide, deep green, petiole over 3 ft. long, thorny at base. 
Spadix horizontal or defle.xed, 2 ft. long, branches simple. Spathes 
brown-pubescent, 4 in. long; mouths lacerate; rachis thickly 
red-tomentose. Flowers crowded, sessile or nearly so. Calyx 
cup-shaped; lobes ovate pubescent. Petals triangular, yellow. 
Drupe ellipsoid, rose-pink. Hab. Common in woods in the south. 
