CLVI. PALMACE^ 
Livisiona.'] 
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fields. Penang (Lewis). Distrib. Cochinchina. Native name: 
Serdang. 
(2) L. tahanensis Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iii. Plate D 
(photograph of top of palm). 
Stem about 17 to 21 ft. tall and 3 to 4 ft. round, covered with 
fibre. Leaves orbicular, large, base broad, 7 ft. 8 in. long; petioles 
flat on one side, backs convex, edge with short flat pale blunt 
triangular thorns above, broad hooked at base, lobes acuminate, 
cleft for three-quarters of lengtli of leaf. Spadices 2*5 ft. long, 
flattened; peduncle i in. wide at base, spadices 4, flat and keeled, 
basal one 9 in. long, limb 1-25 in. long, lanceolate acuminate, upper 
one 4 in. long. Spadix-branches, lowest i ft. long, laxly branched, 
branches slender, red, scurfy. Flowers very small, numerous. 
Sepals 3, free, ovate, tipped red, half as long as petals. Petals 3 
oblong blunt, tip thickened, incurved. Stamens 6, shorter than 
petals, filaments short, thick. Anthers wiiite, distinctly bilobed. 
Ovary 3-lobed; style short, conic. Drupe globose-oblong, -5 in. 
long, calyx and pedicel thickened. Hab. Mountain valleys. Pa¬ 
hang, Gunong Tahan, at Wray's Camp and Skeat’sHill at 3500 ft. 
altitude (Robinson, Pendlebury). Native name: Daun Tau. 
The palms on the ridges are more stunted than those lower down. The 
fibre falls from the trunk with the leaf-bases, as the palm grows, leaving the 
trunk comparatively smooth though still with a fibre coat i in. thick (H. M. 
Pendlebury). 
(3) L. rupicola Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 41, p. 41; 
Ridl. Mat. ii. 166. 
Stem 3 ft. tall, 6 in. through, densely covered with brown fibre. 
Leaves 2 ft. across, split into 12 points, tips setaceous; petioles 
20 in. long, thornless or nearly so. Spadix short, slender, much- 
branched. Spathes cuspidate, dark brown, tw^o lowest ones 3 in. 
long, branches very slender, spikes 2 in, long, lengthening to 4 in. 
in fruit, sinuous. Sepals round, gibbous. Petals similar. Stamen¬ 
ring with 6 subulate teeth. Hab. Limestone rocks. Selangor, 
Batu Caves (Ridley). Lankawu (Curtis). Native name: Serdang 
Batu. 
16 . PHOLIDOCAKPUS, Bl. 
Lofty palms with a big stout stem. Leaves fan-shaped; 
petioles stout, thorny. Inflorescence a very large, much-branched 
panicle. Flowers bisexual, sessile. Calyx tubular, 3-toothed. 
Corolla twice as long. Stamens 6, connate at base. Drupe large, 
globose, fleshy or crustaceoiis. Seed large, globose, ruminate. 
Species several, very little known. Malayan. 
Fruit brown, tessellated . . . . . . fr) P. macrocarpa 
Fruit green, smooth . . . . . . ('.i) P. Kingiana 
(i) P. macrocarpa Becc. Males, iii. 91; Ridl. Mai. ii. l.c. 167. 
.About 50 ft. tall. Leaf 5- or 6-partite, very large; petioles 
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