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CLVI. PALMACE^. 
[Pledocomiopsis. 
beaked, scales cinnamon brown in about 24 vertical rows; perianth 
not accrescent, becoming woody. Hab. Wet low ground in forest, 
Perak, Sungei Larut (Wray, Kunstler). Native name: Rotan 
Tiga Sagi. 
(3) P. dubius Becc. Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. xii. 56, pi. 37. 
Stem over i in. through. Leaf-sheaths anned with short conic 
thorns with enlarged bases, solitary or in threes; petioles with 
stouter thorns broad-based, -15 in. long; leaflets lanceolate acum¬ 
inate with a long point gradually narrowed to base, i ft, long, 
I in. wide. Flagellum from inflorescence. Basal spathe 18 in. 
long, slender unarmed at base, with sheaths 2 to 3 in. long and a 
very narrow linear setaceous limb 3 in. long. Spadix large of 
several panicles, unarmed; panicles over i ft. long; peduncles 
stout, 6 in. long or more; spathes tubular, i in. long, branches 
pendulous, I ft. long. Spathels infundibiiliform hairy with a long 
point. Spikes scorpioid, -2 in. long, distichous; spathellules very 
short with a broad ovate acute limb slightly hairy. Flowers ovate 
acute (not open). Calyx 3-toothed. Corolla deeply 3-lobed. Hab. 
Forests. Selangor, Rantau Panjang (Ridley). 
I took this plant for a form of P. Wrayi, and Beccari seemed to be doubtful 
if it was not. The leaflets are wider, the spikes longer and it seems to be 
much more thorny on the sheaths. 
(4) P. anmilatus Ridl. Mat. ii. 213. Myrialepis Scortechinii 
[Male] Becc. Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. xii. 140. 
Plant with the habit of Pleciocomia Griljilhii ; stem 60 to 80 ft. 
tall, 2 in. through. Leaf-sheaths armed with flat yellow spines 
1-5 in. long, in half rings of 12 or fewer. Whole leaf 10 to 15 ft. 
long; petioles 3 ft. long, spines in threes; leaflets in alternate 
threes, broadly lanceolate acuminate at both ends, dark green 
on both sides, i ft. long, 3 in. wide. Flagellum 2 to 6 ft. long, 
stout, Male spadix 3 ft. long, pendulous, branches over i ft. long, 
spathes tubular with a lanceolate point 2 in. long. Spathel i in. 
long, branchlets 3 in. long. Spikes about 20 on a branch, -25 in. 
long, with 16 flowers; bracts ovate-lanceolate; bracteole bilobed, 
lobes acute; flowers not seen. Female spadix stout, branches 
8 in. long, spikes *5 in. long; flowers 5 or 6, -i in. long. Calyx 
campanulate, deeply 3-lobed, lobes ovate. Corolla lobes little 
longer, ovate. Fruit subglobose, -5 in. through, brown; scales 
minute lanceolate acuminate, points free. Hab. Jungle in the 
south. Singapore, Botanic Gardens; Bukit Timah; Bukit Mandai 
(Ridley). 
Owing to an accidental transference of a label in the Kew Herbarium 
Beccari mistook a male specimen for the male inflorescence of his Myrialepis 
Scortechinii and reduced my P. annulatus to this species, describing and 
figuring the male flowers as those of Myrialepis. 
(5) P. ferox Ridl. 
Lcaf-sheaths armed with strong, flat, triangular long-pointed, 
yellow brown spines, *75 in. long, *2 in. wide at base, in lines of 
