91 AMBROSINIA CILIATA. 
: DESCRIPTION. 
Root perennial, perpendicular, tuberous, stoloniferous, with long 
fleshy fibres. 
Leaves radical, petioled, lanceolate, veinless, somewhat fleshy, 
from six to thirty-six inches long. 
Petioles: upper half cylindric, lower half sheathing, some spatha- 
ceous bracts surround their lower parts. 
Scapes axillary, solitary, short, somewhat compressed. 
Spathe: base tubular and somewhat bellied ; middle portion cy- 
lindric and convolute ; apex expanding, ovate-lanceolate, 
margins of the apex ciliated with long, flexible, purple 
filaments ; the lower tubular portion where the fructification 
is lodged, is half separated (by a transverse membrane) from 
the upper portion, asin A. spiralis. 
Stamens, filaments none. Anthers numerous, sessile, surrounding 
the lower portion of the stigma. ; 
Pistil: Germ conical, crowned, Stylecylindric. | Stigma oblong, 
apex turbinate, lower portion surrounded with anthers. 
Capsule roundish, 6-furrowed, and crowned with the six corre- 
sponding points of the ridges ;_ 6-celled. 
Seeds 6-8 in each cell, affixed by their bases to a central receptacle ; 
each is augmented by a large spongy substance. 
Embryo erect, furnished with an albumen and many subulate 
cotyledons, as in Pinus. 
WALLICHIA. 
MONOECIA HEXANDRIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Spathe many-leaved. 
MALE, 
FEMALE. 
Spadix ramous. 
Perianth proper one-leaved, entire. Corol 3-petalled 
Calyx double: Exterior 2-leaved: Interior 3-parted. 
Corol 3-petalled. Berry 2-seeded. Embryo in the back 
of the seed. 
295. WALLICHIA CARYOTOIDES. 
Spadix terminal, Leaves pinnate. 
Leaflets wedge-shaped, 
variously premorse. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Chelputta, or Bhelputtah, it is called at Chittagong, where the 
plant is found indigenous, and blossoms in July; seed ripen 
during the cold season. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk scarce any, until the plants blossom, and then it may be 
called the base of the spadix, rising above the fibrous mar- 
gined sheaths of the fronds. 
Leaves (fronds) few, alternate, pinnate, petioled, from three to 
eight feet long. 
Leaflets sessile, variously disposed ; the lowermost are generally 
in opposite fascicles, of two, or three ; those farther on are 
for the most part single, and alternate ; all are wedge-shaped: 
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lateral margins entire, apices premorse at very various dis- 
tances from the base, and jagged with the sharp point of 
numerous, parallel, fine fibres, which run up through the 
substance of the leaflets ; upper surface smooth, shining, deep 
green, whitish underneath : general length about one foot or 
fifteen inches. 
Petioles (stipes) at the base sheathing, the rest subcylindric, taper- 
ing a little; while young covered with a large portion of 
a brown, woolly substance. 
Spadix terminal, composed of numerous, alternate, simple, droop- 
ing branches; general length of the whole ramose part from 
one to three feet. 
Spathe universal many-leaved. Leaflets of various sizes, and of a 
~ soft, delicate, leathery texture; striated lengthways; outside 
covered with brown, meally matter ; inside smooth. 
Male flowers very numerous over every part of the branches of 
the spadix, small, pale yellowish white, tinged with pink. 
Perianth cylindric, one-leaved, almost solid, (there being only an 
excavation in the apex for the reception of the corol.) Margin 
marked with three, small protuberances; smooth on both 
sides. 
Corol: Petals three, lanceolate, smooth, fleshy: nothing like a 
nectary nor germ to be seen. 
Filaments six, short, inserted on a small hollow receptacle in the 
centre of the corol. Anthers linear. 
Female flowers mixed amongst the male over the branches of the 
same spadix. 
Pertanth (may be called) double (in that case,) the exterior is of two, 
reniform leaflets. The interior one-leaved, cup-shaped, with 
the border 3-parted. 
Corol as in the male, but with shorter and rather broader peals. 
Stamina none ; nor is there any nectary. 
Germ above, ovate. Style none. Stigma small, conical, 3-pointed. 
Pericarp, a dry, ovate-oblong berry, about the size of a nutmeg, 
one-celled. 
Seeds two, ovate-oblong, singly about the size of a large coffee- 
bean, but longer, flat on one side, convex on the other, with 
the embryo lodged about the middle of the convex side. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
When the plant has ripened its seed, it perishes ; and is suc- 
ceeded by suckers which rise from the root, as in the common 
plantain: or may be reared from the seed. 
296. QUERCUS ARMATA R. 
Leaves lanceolar, acuminate, entire, smooth. Cup an entire 
evalvular capsule, armed with many compound thorns, hiding 
completely the subovate acorn. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A large timber tree, a native of the mountainous countries imme- 
diately east of Bengal ; at Chittagong, it is called Kanta-lal-batana ; 
at Tipperah Singahara ; and in the forests near Golparah Kanta 
 Senggur. 
