64 cLVt. PALMACEJi. [Caiamii^. 
long, the others short; leaflets linear, 15 in. long, i in. wide, greyish 
beneath, bristly. Spadices male over 2 ft. long, fiexuous, with 
several branches over i ft. long. Spikes 3 or 4 together, curved, 
with numerous short flowers distichous in short and broad spathules. 
Female spadices rather shorter and stouter; flowers large. Fruit 
75 to I in. long, oblong ellipsoid beaked, dark brown, scales 
numerous, few rows or fewer and larger. Hah. Common in forests, 
Johor, Serom. Malacca, Nyalas; Selandor; Ayer Panas. Pahang, 
Tahan river; Kwala Lipis (Machado). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur. 
Negri Sembilan, Tampin (Burkill). Perak, Bujong Malacca; Tapah; 
Goping (Kunstler). Simgkai. bindings, Liimut (Curtis). Kelan- 
tan, Chaning. Native name: Rotan Atap Chuchur. Use: The 
leaves are used for thatching. 
(45) C. Griffithianus Mart, in Hook, fit. F.B.l. vi. 440. 
Alore robust than C. castaneus, with stems up to 4 ft. tall. Fruit 
sub-globose rather larger with fewer and larger scales. Usually 
grows with C. castaneus and is probably a larger state or form, less 
common. 
(46) C, arborescens Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 33 ; Palms 
of Brit. Ind. 42, t. 188, a, b, c. 
A tufted erect palm with smooth green stems about 3 in. through, 
15 to 20 ft. tall. Leaves 5 to 6 ft. long; leaflets 8 to 18 in. long, 
I to 1*25 in. wide, linear-lanceolate, white beneath, edges bristly; 
petioles armed with flat spines. Spadix male very long; spikes 4 
to 6 in. long, 75 in. across; flowers nearly -5 in. long. Spathes 
with many half whorls of black spines. Female spadix 18 in. long 
with 10 branches 7 in. long. Fruit cylindric-oblong, beaked, scales 
few rows, ovate rhomboid, brown with white lacerate edge. Seed 
oblong flattened ruminate. Hah. Wet, muddy spots in the north, 
Lankawi Gunong Raya (Haniff). Perlis, Telor Jambu. Setul, 
Bukit Rajah Wang. Distrih. Pegu. 
26 . PLECTOCOMIOPSIS, Becc. 
\"ery large rattans with the habit of Plecfocomia. Leaves 
pinnate; leaflets usually broad, flagelliferous. Inflorescence of 
numerous pendulous panicles, of slender branches, unisexual on 
each plant, sub-terminal. Spathes and spathels tubular, spathel- 
lules ovate acute, shorter than the flower. Male flowers in short 
scorpioid spikes with 2 rows of flowers, distichous. Calyx cup¬ 
shaped, shortly 3-lobed. Corolla 3-lobed nearly or quite twice as 
long. Stamens 6, filaments stout, connate at base. Female spadix 
stouter, branches shorter. Flowers fewer in the spike and much 
larger. Species 6 or 7, Tenasserim, Borneo, Sumatra. 
Scales of fruit regular small, brown. 
Stems covered with short conic thorns. 
Petioles of upper leaves short; male flowers 
globose-ovoid. (i) p. geminiflorus 
