Phæniz.] CLXII. PALMEZ. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 427 
Var. a, typica, Becc. l.c. 347, 379, t. 44, and ii. f. 22-24; stem short or mode. 
rately long, leaflets elongate pale green in usually remote fascicles, fruiting 
Peduncle usually very long, fruit rather long, groove of seed very short. P. 
humilis, Royle l.c. P. Ouseleyana, Grif. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 347 ; Palms 
Brit. Ind. 139. P. sylvestris ?, Wall. Cat. 8602 B.—Outer Himalaya, alt. 1-5000 ft., 
from Kumaon eastwards. Assam (Jenkins), the Khasia hills and Central India; at 
Chota Nagpore, Cal. Ouseley.— Griffith describes P. Ouseleyana, from an Assam 
specimen, as having the ovoid bulbous stem of P. acaulis, a foot long by 6 in. diam., 
leaves 22-3 ft., leaflets very narrow indeed and strongly conduplicate 1 ft. long by 
(owing to the conduplication) 3 in. broad, lower spinescent, male spadix 1 ft. rather 
longer than the spathe, fem. spadix 2-2} ft. much longer than its spathe with few 
terminal long flexuose spikes, male fl. iin. long (in Sikkim specimen). The seeds 
examined are from Sikkim, $-i in. long, with a broad groove. 
Var. 8, Lourierii, Bece. l.c. 348, 379, t. 41, ii. f. 16, 17 ; stem short or very short, 
leaflets subglaucous often approximate mostly falciform, fruiting peduncle elongate, 
fruit ovoid, P. Loureirii, Kunth Enum. iii. 257. P. pusilla, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 
614 (non. Gertn.). P. Roebelinii, O’Brien, in Gard. Chron. 1889, ii. 475, 758, 
fg. 68.—Assam, the Khasia Hills, Burma, Munnipore, Cochin China, 
Var. 8, pedunew'ata, Bece. lc. 379, 387, t. 44, f. 13-15, 18-21, 25-27 ; stem 
short, pine subglaucous more or less fascicled, spathe 8 iu. long, margiu fringed, 
“iting peduncle very long, fruit small oblong-ovoid black, groove of seed usually 
dilating into a canal. P. pedunculata, Palms Brit. Ind. 139. P. acaulis, Miq. Pl. 
Holen, Nilg. No. 1213.— Western Ghats, from the Concan southwards, ascending to 
about 6000 ft. on the Nilghiri hills, Wight, &¢.—Griflith describes this as soboli- 
ferous, With leaves 4—5 ft. , leaflets 1 ft., petiole bearing solitary or fascicled spines, 
male spadix about a span long, fem. a little longer, with a very long fruiting 
uncle, fruit 4-2 in. by 1-1 in. diam.—Mr. J. Steavenson (ia Journ. Agric. 
ort. Soc, Madras, N.S. (1866), 337), observes that this is a graceful pale green 
Palm, with the stem never more than a foot or so high. ‘The seeds described above 
are from Nilghiri specimens and are }—} in. long. Specimens, presumably of this 
puts Sent by Mr. Talbot from N. Canara, have spathes 8 in. long, with a deep brown 
noge of matted woolly hairs; fruit black ; seeds 4-Z in. loug groove narrow hardly 
lated within, , ` 
WW Embryo basilar. 
* paludosa, Rows. Hort. Beng. 75; Fl. Ind. 
P 789; gregarious, 
stbarboreous, leaflets opposite and alternate bifarious ensi 
form with filiform 
Pee Ind. 144, t. 999 A, B; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 11. 202; For. 
sia, 1. 536 ; Brandis, For. Fl. 556; Gamble, 
mensis, Mig, Palm, Archip. Ind. 14. 
Aestuarial shores from BENGAL to Burma and the ANDAMAN IsLANDS— 
IB. Siam, Cochin Chin: 
Trunks 8 97 nn Vata, . , 2 18 in. diam. Leaves 
-4 incli »rous, annulate, 12-18 in. dia ¢ 
10 ft 9 ft., often inclined, soboliferous, a ith many long spines, 
Sheath, 2, eaflets 1-2 ft. ; petiole 3-5 ft., slender, scurfy, 
tensy. Diren, Male spudin with its pedunele 1} ft., 
Paid? , m. spathe shorter ; male fl. 1 in. long ; fem. subglob 
* in. long, mucronate, black purple when fully ripe. 
compressed ; spathe as long, 
ose with 6 staminodes. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
8. P. robu hick as a man's body 
Osely Ai Sta, Hook. f.; trunk 15-20 ft.as thic 
m ly clothed and Zei tessellated from the sheaths of the fallen 
Yes, leaves about 3 ft. long, leaflets fascicled quadrifarious strict, 
