499 ` otemt, PALME, (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Arenga. 
auricled and only on one side, the acute male buds, and by the oblong fruit narrowed 
at both ends. 
3. A. Wightii, Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 475; Palms Brit. 
Ind. 167, t. 235 E; trunk short stout soboliferous, leaflets alternate 
crowded linear 2-auricled at the base, tip narrowed unequally 2-lobed and 
toothed white beneath, male buds acute. 
The Deccan PENINSULA; Coimbatore, Wight; Nilghiri hills, alt. 3000 ft., 
Gamble. . 
Trunk 3-8 ft. Leares 12-28 ft. ; leaflets linear-ensiform, 3-3} ft. by 13-2 m., 
margins sparingly toothed from the middle upwards; lower auricle very large, over 
lapping the petiole ; petiole 6-8 ft. Spadices 4 ft., peduncle 2 ft. Frut about 
the size of a crab-apple, globosely turbinate, broader than long. 
13. CARYOTA, Linn. 
Tall palms, soboliferous or not, flowering from the upper leaf-sheaths, 
and successively from lower (alternately male and fem.); trunk nak 
or sheathed. Leaves few, very large, broad, bipinnatisect ; leaflets very 
obliquely dimidiately flabelliform, or cuneiform, premorse or round 
at the tip, petiolules or bases swollen at the insertion. Spathes 3-5,1no 
plete, tubular. Spadices interfoliar, shortly peduncled, much fastigiately 
branched; branches slender, pendulous; flowers solitary and male, Hi 
3-nate with the intermediate fem. Fem. fl. symmetric; sepals roundel, 
imbricate; petals linear-oblong, valvate; stamens very many, filaments 
very short, anthers long. Fem. fl. subglobose, sepals rounded, imbricate; 
petals rounded, valvate; ovary 3-celled, stigma 3-lobed, ovules erect. 
Fruit globose, 1-2-seeded, stigma terminal. Seeds erect; albumen rumi- 
nate; embryo dorsal.—Species about 10, tropical Asiatic, Malayan a? 
Australian. 
l. C. urens, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 187 ; trunk stout tall not soboliferous, 
leaflets cuneiform very obliquely truncate acutely serrate-toothed, uppa 
margin produced and caudate, male buds cylindric about 3 times as long # 
broad, stamens 40-45, fruit 2—2 in. diam., base apiculate, testa adhere, e 
Gærtn. fruct. i. 90, t. 7; Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 625; Mart. Hist. Nat. Paw 
193, t. 107 and 108, and 162; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 278. 
Palms Brit. Ind. 160; Tier, Enum. 329; Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. Fl 205 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 41.— Rheede Hort. Mal. i. t. 11. 
Throughout the HOTTER PARTS OF INDIA, from the Sikkim Himalaya 
southwards to Ceylon and Singapore—Disrrip.-Trop. Asia, Malaya. 5-6 ft. 
Trunk 30-40 ft. l ft. diam., annulate, Leaves 18 20 by 10-12 ft., leaflets P outer 
eurved and drooping, pinnules 4-8 in., broadly cuneate, upper parrowe | ft; 
margin caudate; petiole very stout. Spadiv 10-12 ft. long; spathes ` les; 
branches all reaching the same level; flowers 3-nate, a fem. between two mat 
male $ in. long, or more, Fruit reddish. ? 
and Assam 
2. C. obtusa, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 480; Palms ie 
Ind. 170; glabrous, trunk tall stout not soboliferous, leaflets bout 
obliquely cuneiform crenate, upper margin not caudate, male buds à ab 
as long as broad, stamens very many, fruit 2—1 in. diam., base not a Is 
late. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palin. iii. 195. C. obtusidentata, Grif. 7" 
Brit. Ind, 236 A, B. 
UPPER Assam; Mishmi Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Griffith. 
