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CLVI. PALMACE.® 
\Eugeissona, 
Plants smaller; leaflets lanceolate caudate; spadix 
3 ft. long. {'2) E. brachystachys 
(1) E. tristis Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. loi; Pahns of 
Brit. Ind. 109 to 220A; Ridl. Mat. ii. 171. 
Leaves 15 to 20 ft. long; leaflets linear-lanceolate acuminate, 
I ft. long, *5 in. wide; petioles 7 to 10 ft. long. Spadix 4 to 6 ft. 
tall. Flowers 2 in. long, terminal on the branches. Fruit ovoid 
beaked, 2 to 3 in. long, 1-5 in. through, brown. Seed globose, 
I in. through. Hab. Dry hills in forests, gregarious Johor, Gunong 
Pulai. Malacca, Sungei Hudang (Griffith). Negri Sembilan, 
Senaling Inas (Holttum). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur. Perak, 
Thaiping Hills to 2400 ft. altitude; Tapah. Dindings. Province 
Wellesley. Penang (Curtis). Kelantan, Kwala Lebir. Native 
name : Bertam. Vses : The midribs are used for making " chicks," 
screens or partitions in houses, and the stalk of the inflorescence 
is carved into walking-sticks. 
(2) E. brachystachys Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mas. vi. 184. 
Leaves 14 to 20 ft. long; petioles 12 ft. long, glaucous, speckled 
red; leaflets lanceolate caudate, base narrowed, 2 ft. long, 3 in. 
wide, tail 4 in. long. Spadix 3 ft. long. Spathes lanceolate cuspi¬ 
date, base green, above red, cusp acuminate, 6 in. long. Lower 
flowers panicled, upper racemose, peduncle 1-5 in. long. Calyx 
cylindric. Petals linear acuminate, green, 2 in, long. Fruit ovoid, 
base stipitate beaked. Scales ovate-triangular, blunt, fimbriate. 
Hah. Local. Dry hill woods, local. Pahang, Kwala Teku (Ridley). 
22 . DiEMONOROPS, Bl. 
Bush palms very spiny, producing long stems, generally scandent. 
Leaves pinnate with numerous narrow leaflets and ending in a 
bare portion of the rachis armed with hooks (flagellum). Spadix 
usually unisexual, male and female on the same stem, axillary, 
dense or lax, many-flowered peduncled. Spathes several, spiny, 
boat-shaped or oblong, at first covering tlie spadix then deciduous. 
Flowers coriaceous, brown or yellow, small. Calj^x tubular, 
3-toothed. Corolla 3-lobed, longer. Stamens 6 connate at the 
base. Pistillode small. Female flowers; ovary covered with 
scales. Stigmas 3, large. F'ruit glolx)se or oblong, covered with 
yellow, brown or red imbricating scales. Seed bony globose in a thin 
pulp, pitted or ruminate. Species 60, India, Cochinchina, Malaya. 
These plants vary much in the size of leaflets, spathe and spadix, bristli¬ 
ness and arrangcnicnt of spines on the sheaths in different parts of the same 
plant. Many sj'ccics have been based on totally inadequate herbarium 
material. 1 have seen many of the species wild, often in abundance, and 
cultivated many of them. Beccari’s volume Ann. Bot. Card. Calc, xii., with 
the large photographs of the herbarium specimens is invaluable, though T 
am by no means agreed as to some of his determinations. Specimens are 
