Phoenix.) CLXIII. PALMEÆ. (Beccari E Hook. f.) 425. 
l P. sylvestris, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 73; Fl. Ind. ii. 787; trunk 
solitary stout, petiole spinous, leaflets 1-2 ft. fascicled 24 farious rigid 
glaucous green, male spadix 2-3 ft., fruit 1-1} in. long, terete. Mart. 
Hist. Nat, Palm. iii. 276 (excl. syn. Linn. & Kaempf) 326, t. 136. Kunth 
Enum. iii. 250; Wall. Cat. 8602; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 350; 
Palms Brit. 141, t. 228 A; P Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 978; Brund. For. 
FL554; Kurz, For. Fl. ii. 535; Becc. Males. ii. 947, 364, t. 43, f. 3. 
Elate sylvestris, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1189, in parl. Katou Indel, Ham. in 
Trans, Linn. Soc. xv. 86.— Rheede Hort. Mal. iii. t. 22, 25. 
Cultivated throughout the plains of INDra and Burma. Wild in the Indus 
sin, Aitchison. 
„Trunk 25-40 ft., clothed with the persistent bases of petioles. Leaves 10-15 ft., 
quite glabrous, Spathe 12-16 in., scurfy, petiole short. Spadices erect, fruiting 
melined with spreading branches ; branches of male filiform; male fl. 4-3 in. long. 
Fruiting peduncle short, 6 in. or more. Fruit orange yellow, seed rounded at both 
ends, pale brown.— Very near P. dactylifera and possibly the origin of that plant, of 
Which the leaflets point more forward and are of a brighter green, and the seeds are 
pute at both ends, but most variable in this respect and often imperfect. The 
mbay Flora is cited above with doubt, as its authors imply that the leaflets are 
not fascicled, They say * Roxburgh says the leaflets are fascicled, this is surely a 
inistake,”” They mention another species as growing in the Hewra Garden, and 
brought from the Ghats, with a stem 6-8 ft. high, and leaves more slender and 
elicate than sylvestris and acaulis. The Elate sylvestris of Linnæus includes this 
ind a Ceylon palm (see P. zey/anica).—Griffith observes that Rheede's figure repre- 
“ents the fruit as very much smaller and of a different shape from that of the Bengal 
Pant. The whole subject wants a careful study. 
yo P. zeylanica, Trimen in Journ. Bot. 1885, 267; Syst. Cat. 
Zeyl. Pl. 96; stem 14 ft. or less, leaflets subequidistant quadrifarious 
bright green rigid, fruiting spadix with long slender spreading branches, 
fruit Scarlet then dark purple. P. zeylanica, Hort ; Hook. f. in Kew Report, + 
94 4 9. P sylvestris, Thwaites Enum. 329. P. pusilla, Gerin. Fruct. i. 
A, t. 9; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 273, 321, t. 136 (partly as to descr., 
ST srel. figs. x., xi, in t. W., and 1-15 in t. 124). Elate sylvestris, Linn. 
P. Pl. 1189 (the Ceylon plant only). 
ÜEYLON; in shady w 
Stem 8-20 ft., rarely Mn shorter. Leaves rather short; leaflets very many 
not fascicled, 7—10 in. pungent, spreading at right angles. Fruit 3 in. or rat ver 
More, 1 in. diam. Seed nearly as long, with the groove dilating into a canal o 
Various forms.—(Trimen’s appropriate name should replace Grertner's misleading 
mo even if Gaertner had been right in assuming his plant to be the “J alma dacty- 
SS aculeata minima ” of Plum. Gen. Aimer. 3, which he cites doubtfully as a 
nonym, and which is an American plant.—J. D. H.) 
3. P. ru me ù n. Linn. Soc. xi. 13; trunk 
. . Picola, T. Anders. im Journ. Lin . = 
ary slender naked, leaflets 1} ft. bifarious and not fascicled "7 
dë green, fem. spadix 3-4 ft. long peduncled, fruit 2 in. long. " Jecc. 
». 39; HL 348, 395. P. Andersoni, Cat. Hort. Calcut. No. "ub nals 
e 3?: Gard. Chron. 1877, ii. 45, fig. 4.—Phenicoidea, Griff. Journals, 
muta HIMALAYA, alt. 460-1400 ft., Anderson. Assam and the Mrismwi 
rifith | 
Trunk 15-29 : i labrous; petiole com- 
tessed — ft. by 8 in. diam. Leaves 10 ft., quite g ; pi À 
i padices elongated. much compressed, females with a few fascicled spikes 
n the acute margins near the apex; spathe 1 ft. long. Fruit oblong, shining, 
