yo CLVI. PALMACE^. [Korthalsia. 
scales longer than broad. Hab. Rather common in forests and more 
often flowering than most species. Singapore, Bukit Timah. Johor, 
Batu Pahat. Malacca (Griffith). Pahang, Raub (Burn-Murdoch). 
(10) K. flagellaris Miq. Journ. Bot. Neerl. FI. hid. Bat. Suppl. 
255, 591: Fidl. Mat. ii. 219. 
Leaves i ft. long; sheaths very spiny; petioles 5 in. long, stout; 
ochrea not seen or described; leaflets oticuneate, 3 in. long, i in. 
wide, red tomento.se beneath ; petiole thin, flat. Spadix large, stout, 
branches over i ft. long. Spikes 3 to 4 in, long, 18 in. through, 
sessile, densely red woolly; bracts shorter than wool. Fruit yellow; 
scales fimbriate. Hab. Not common. Perak, Asam Kumbang 
(Wray). Distrib. Sumatra. 
(11) K. rubiginosa Becc. Males, ii. 72; Ridl. Mat. ii. 219, 
Stems 60 ft. long or more, 1-5 in. through. Leaves long; sheath 
thorny with short thick conic thorns lacerate into red-brown fibres; 
ochrea 4 in. long, lanceolate-oblong; petioles over i ft. long, thorny; 
leaflets linear-oblong, base cuneate, 12 to 18 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. 
wide, plicate, red-scurfy behind; petiolules *5 in. long. Spadix 
I ft. long or more. Spikes 3 in. long, *13 in. through. Hab. Johor, 
Mount Austin and Batu Pahat and common in the swampy woods 
along the railway from Johor to Perak, very rarely flowering. 
Distrib. Borneo, 
28 . PLECTOCOMIA, Mart. 
Gigantic climbing unisexual rattans, stems thickening upwards. 
Leaves very large, flagelliferous, with broad leaflets. Inflorescence 
very large, of long pendulous spikes covered with broad imbricating 
brown bracts, sub-terminal. Male spikes short, many-flowered. 
Calyx cupular. Petals free nearly to base. Stamens 6 to 12. 
P'emale flowers large and fewer. Fruit globose i- to 3-seedcd, 
covered with brown triangular scales with a free recurved point. 
Species 5 or 6, Assam, Malaya. 
(i) P. Grifiithii Becc. in Hook. fit. F.B.I. vi. 478; Ridl. Mat. ii. 220. 
P. elongata Griff. Palms of Brit. hid. 104, t. 217A, B, c (not of Blume). 
Stems 100 ft. long or more, 3 in. through above. Leaves 10 ft. 
long; sheaths with strong red spines 3 in. long in rows on back, 
margins and mouth; leaflets elliptic acuminate, glaucous beneath, 
I ft. long, 3 in. wide, in distant clusters of 2 or 3. Spikes 6 ft. long. 
Bracts nearly 2 in. long, ovate angled truncate, edges pubescent, 
deep brown. Spikelets in male i in. long; flowers *24 in. long, 
3 to 6. Female bracts small; flowers -4 in. long, 4 together. Fi*uit 
as large as a twelve-bore bullet, scales with edges laciniate. Hab. 
Forests. Common all over the peninsula from Singapore to Penang. 
In the hills it ascends to about 4000 ft. altitude, but is generally 
dwarfed there. Native name: Rotan Dahan. Use. For legs of 
long chairs and mining baskets. 
