24 CLVI. PALMACE^ [PhoUdocaYpus. 
thorny to top. Spadix 5 ft. long, very thick, branches about i ft. 
long, I in, through at base. Spathes tubular, brown, scurfy. 
Flowers distant. Fruit ovoid, 6 in. long, 4 in. through, brown, 
tessellated on pedicels *25 in. long. Seed surrounded by fibre. 
Hab. Damp lowland jungle. Selangor, Klang to Petaling (Ridley). 
(2) P. Kingiana Ridl. Mat. ii. 167. Livistona Kingiana Becc. 
Males, iii. 199. 
Stem 40 to 80 ft. tall, 8 to 12 in. through, rough with leaf bases 
with a brown fibrous network. Leaves 3 to 5 ft. long, cut to base 
with linear acuminate lobes, 3 in. across; petioles 6 to 7 ft. long, 
1 in. through, green with two yellow bands, thorus conic, base swollen] 
black. Spadix very large, orange brown; branches over i ft. 
long. Flowers *25 in. long, yellow. Calyx tubular, teeth lanceolate- 
triangular, ciliate. Petals blunt, pubescent. Drupe dark green, 
2 in. through; pericarp fleshy, 2 in. thick, orange inside. Seed 
tessellate, i in. through, sub-ruminate. Hah. Low swampy woods. 
Singapore, Bukit Mandai; Chan Chu Kang. Johor, Batu Pahat. 
Selangor, Bukit Jugra (Burn-Murdoch). Bindings, Lumut. Perak. 
Native name: Kepau. 
17. LICUALA, Roxb. 
Low palms often bushy. Leaves orbicular plicate, deeply cut 
into cuneate segments, more rarely entire; petiole thorny on edge. 
Inflorescence interfoliate, elongate, with tubular persistent spathes. 
Spikes simple, rarely compound, from the spathe axils, short, 
densely flowered. Flowers small, bisexual. Calyx cupular, 3- 
toothed. Petals connate. Stamens 6, free or connate, in a ring. 
Carpels 3, free or connate. Drupe small, globose or ellipsoid. 
Albumen equable. Species 50, India, Malaya to Australasia. 
Native name : Palas. 
§ r. Eu-licuala. 
Stem tall, 3 to 8 ft. 
Inflorescence of compound spikes from axils 
of spathes; leaves large. 
Spikes several together, fairly stout. 
Spikes about 6 to 8; calyx glabrous, 
campanulate .(i) L. paludosa 
Spikes 16 on a spadix, long and slender; 
calyx pubescent campanulate , . (2} L. patens 
Spikes few together; calyx cylindric, 
pube.scent. (3) L. spinosa 
Spikes few, very slender; calyx urn¬ 
shaped, 3-toothed . . . . (4) L. glabra 
Spikes few, moderately stout; calyx urn- 
shaped. (5) L. longepedunculata 
Spikes few; calyx cylindric lobed . . (6) L. malayana 
Stemless, or nearly so; leaves large. 
Inflorescence stout. 
Leaflets 10 to 13; catyx cup-shaped; 
rachis red woolly . . . . (7) L. ferruginea 
Leaflets 20; calyx cylindric . . , (8) L. longipes 
