428 oam, PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [ Pheniíz, 
strongly conduplicate, fruiting peduncle 2 ft. P. humilis, var. robusta, 
Becc. Males. 348, 384. 
BEHAR ; on Parusnath, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H., Ze, . lated 
A very remarkable species from the great bulk of the trunks, and their en $ A 
appearance, due to the comparatively small size of the appressed old leaf-sheat mind 
which, judging from excellent photographs procured for me by Mr. Clarke, the 
must be very many in a plane cutting the diameter of the trunk ; they give to i" 
trunk the appearance of a Cycas. The figure of P. cycadifolia, Regel, Gar “the 
1879, 131, t. 974, a plant referred to dactylifera, strongly resembles robusta in t 
bulk and marking of the trunk. 
17. COR YPIHA. 
Tall stout unarmed palms, dying after once flowering and froiting, 
Leaves very large, orbicular or lunate, flabellately multifid; petiole 
spinous. Spadix very large, terminal, erect, paniculate; spathes E 
tubular. Flowers small, bisexual. Calyx cupular, 3-fid. Petals wey 
nate below in a stipes, ovate, acute, imbricate or subvalvate. Stamens à 
filaments subulate, anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 3-lobed, 3-celled ; style $ " ; 
subulate, stigma minute. Fruit of 1-3 globose fleshy drupes, sty 
basilar. Seed erect, globose or oblong; albumen equable ; embryo spit 
—Species about 6, tropical Asiatic. 
1. €. elata, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii. 176; trunk spirally ridged, leaves 
lunate, petiole with black margins and curved spines, panicle ist 
ovoid, branches spreading, drupe about lin. diam. stipitate. Mart. na 
Nat. Palm. 233; Kunth Enum. iii. 236. Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. = à 
v. 314; Palms Brit. Ind. 112, t. 220 D. ©. Gebanga, Kurz For. Fl. 
525, an Blume ? 
BENGAL and Burma, :am., 80-100- 
Trunk straight, 60-70 ft. high by 2 ft. diam. Leaves 8-10 ft. diam., irally 
fid to about the middle; lobes ensiform, obtuse or 2-fid; petioles 6-12 ft., it span 
arranged, auricled. Spadiz about } the height of the trunk, much narrower n icles 
than the foliaze, supradecompound; spathes many. Flowers in scattere tals ree 
on the rather stout spreading branchlets of the spadix; calyx 3-toothed, ae itate, 
flexed ; ovary suddenly contracted into the short style. Drupe very sbortly d T 
olive colrd., smooth ; pericarp friable, endocarp adnate to the testa, —Griffith de in the 
the leaves as nearly circular, 5-6 by 15 ft. broad, with narrower segments than 
other Indian species. 
2. C. umbraculifera, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. ii. 1657; trunk wen? 
leaves sublunate or circular palmately piunatifid conduplicate pi es 
middle, panicle pyramidal, primary branches piercing the spathes, € 296; 
ljin.diam. Gærtn. Fruct. i, 18, t. 7 (seed inverted) ; Kunth Enum. tim) 3 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 177; Mart; Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 232, t. 108, 127 (parts 
Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 319; Palms Brit. Ind. 116., 595; 
Enum. 329; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. Suppl. 94; Kurz For. Fi. 12 
Brand. For. Fl. 549 ; Wall. Cat. 8615.—Rheede Hort. Mal. iii. t. 1-17. 
MarAnAR Coast and CEYLON. at 
Trunk 60-80 ft. diam. Leaves 6 ft. long by 13 broad, 80-100-fid to ais 
the middle, segments obtusely 2-fid ; petiole 7 ft., spines often in pars., "oos, 
attaining 20 ft, pyramidal, branches spreading. Calyx broadly 3-lobed. 
suddenly contracted into the style, Drupe shortly stipitate. 
o 174; 
3. €. Talliera, Roxb. Cor. PI iii, 951, t. 255, 956; FU. Ind. ï 1 
