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Pulau Tekong; Tampinis river. Malacca, Tabong (Griffith). 
Pahang, Pekan; Rumpin river (sea and river shores). Selangor, 
Raub track (Machado). Perak, Kamumng; Goping (Kunstler), 
Kenering (Wray). Kelantan, Kwala Lebir (Ridley) in forests, 
Adang islands, on sea shore. Distrih. Nicobars, Tenassmm, 
Malay islands to Australia. Native names: Pakis Laut; Paku 
Rajah; Paku Gala (Griffith). Classed by Malays with ferns (pakis, 
or paku), on account of the circulate vernation. 
It is possible that the forest plant is a distinct species but h very rardy 
flowers, propagating itself by the axdlary buds (bulbils), ^ . 
detached and roll along the ground. The carpophylls of the Goping plant 
(the only fruits of the forest form 1 have seen) are strongly pectinate at the 
tip, with spines over i in. long. 
(2) C. siamensis Miq. Bot. Zeit. 1863, p. 334 : 
/. 433; Dyer in Hook. fit. F.BJ, V. 
Stem about 15 ft. long or less, and 6 in. through above, base 
abruptly swollen, trunk cylindric, smooth, white. Leaves 3 it- 
long, 8 in. across, light green; leaflets 70 pairs, narrow linear acute, 
•25 in. wide, coriaceous; petioles i ft. long, thorny. Male cone 
anther-scales 7 in. long with a slender point as long as the deltoicl- 
clavate limb. Female carpophylls, with petioles 3 m. long, limb 
obovate pectinate with 30 processes i to 2 in. long, all orange woolly. 
Hub. On limestone rocks often high up on precipices, and sometmes 
lying horizontal on the face of the precipice. Terutau (Curtis). 
Setul. Perlis near Tebing Tinggi (Ridley). Distrih. Burma, Shan 
States, Cochin-China, Siam. 
