Wallichia.] CLXIII. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 419 
sepals orbicular, coriaceous, imbricate; petals triangular valvate; stami- 
nodes few or 0; ovary 2-3-celled, stipitate; stigmas conic; ovules subbasilar. 
Pruit ovoid-oblong, 1-3-celled and -seeded. Seeds erect, plano-convex; 
albumen equable; embryo dorsal. —Species 3 or more, Indian and Malayan. 
l. W. densiflora, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 190, & Suppl. 315; 
leaflets oblong or linear-oblong sinuately lobed acutely toothed white 
eneath, fem. fl. crowded 2-bracteate, male corolla twice as long as the calyx, 
mouth of calyx quite entire, fem. corolla shorter than the ovary. Kurz 
For. Fl. ii, 532; Brandis For. Fl. 549; Bot, Mag. t. 4584. W. oblongi- 
folia, Griff. in Cale. Journ Nat. Hist. v. 486; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xi. 6. Harina oblongifolia, Grif. Palms Brit. Ind. 175, t. 237 A, B, C. 
W. caryotoides, Wall. Cat, 8596 B. 
[RoPICAL HIMALAYA from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 3000 ft. ASSAM, 
the Kuasta Hrs, and CHITTAGONG. 
„ "ems very short or 0 (or often 8-15 fc. Kurz); trunk sheathed, scurfy, sheaths 
Villous, resolving into strong fibres. Leaves 8-10 ft. ; leaflets 1-2 ft., very many, 
alternate or the lower 2-4-nate, l-costate and with many parallel nerves, bright 
rm above; sheaths scurfy. Spathes purple. Spadices 12-18 in. long, branches 
/ fem, very stout ; flowers in many spiral series; male fl. yellow, solitary, or the 
ower in pairs with an intermediate fem. ; filaments adnate to the petals; fem. fl. 
alt calyx very short, corolla-lobes obtuse. Fruit about } in. long, dull 
li 2 W, caryotoides, Roxb. Cor. Pl. iii. t. 295; leaflets oblong or 
| p oblong panduriformly excised and acutely toothed white beneath, 
„cm. distant 3-bracteate, male corolla half as long as the calyx, mouth of 
WI 3-toothed, fem. corolla about twice as long as the ovary. Mart. 
ui Nat. Palm. ii. 180, t. 136; Wall. Cat. 8596 A; Grif. in Cale. Journ. 
at. Hist, v. 485; Kurz For. Fl. i. 532; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 24. 
vma caryotoides, Ham. in Mem. Wern. Soc. v. 317; Grif. Palms 
Ind. i ht t. 237. Wrightia caryotoides, Roxb. Hort, Beng. 63; FL 
Cuir 2 ona 
Habit Inn and Bora, in hill forests, ascending to 4000 ft. dorescence, but 
iino «^. V. oblongifolia, and very similar in foliage aud inflorescence, 
ing S In the characters given above and in the fruit, which Kurz deseribes as 
as la a nt . uM ` M »h savs as 
ange as large as a nutmeg, ovoid-oblong, rarely 2-seeded.—(Roxburgh say 
à coffee bean.) 
H 
Ca T disticha, 7) Anders. in Journ. Linn, Soc. xi. 6; trunk tall 
morse aes distichous, leaflets fascicled linear narrowed to the base pre- 
"m enticulate, male calyx eupular 3-lobed, corolla thrice as ong, 
ary corolla longer than the ovary. W. Vom, Kurz For. FL ii. 583. 
Yota mitis, Herd, Calcutt. 
Pe ee H IMALAYA, in tropical gorges, T. Anderson, and probably eastwards. 
Leaves 6-10 ft., alternate 
t; d 
i leaflets narrowing from near the truncate apex to the base and with a largo 
and n each side about the middle, 1-2 ft., by 2-2} in., glaucous beneath ; petio h 
short, scurfy. Male spadix 3-4 ft., very narrow, linear in outline, with 
itum . a . 
b We á E recurved sleuder crowded branches. Fem. spadiz 6-8 ft. pond ous ; 
ut, si : i i iral series, green. Prutl oblong, 
top Obscure. 2 simple ; flowers disposed in many spiral series, g 
Spiral, Y 2-3-lobed, reddish.—Kurz describes the leaves us disposed in a j 
Tru - 
nk 10-15 ft, by 5-6 in. diam., naked, annulate. 
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