Corypha. ] CLXHL PALMEH, (Beccari & Hook. f.) 429 
trank obsoletely annulate, leaves subrotund complicate above the middle 
subglaucous, basal lobes overlapping, panicle pyramidal, branches axillary 
to the spathes spreading, secondary forked, drupes 1j in. diam. Kunth 
Enum. iu. 236; Mart. Nat. Hist. Palm. iii. 231; Griff. in Cale. Journ. 
Nat, Hist. v. 317; Palms Brit. Ind. 114, t. 220 E, F, Wall. Cat. 8616. 
Talliera bengaiensis Spreng. Syst, i. 18. T. Tali, Mart. in Roem. & Sch. 
Syst. vii. 1306. 
BzNGar, Roxburgh. 
Trunk about 30 ft., dark brown, rather rough. Leaves 6 ft. long by 15 broad, 
30-100.fid, lobes deeper and broader than in umbraculifera, the central 3-33 ft. ; 
petiole 5-10 ft., not spirally arranged, biauricled, spinous. Spadix 20 ft. or more 
high; primary branches with ascending tips, secondary bifarious, drooping; flowers 
in close clusters. Calyx obscurely 3-lobed. Ovary suddenly contracted into the 
style, Drupes 1-3, dark olive or greenish-yellow. 
1 4. C. macropoda, Kurz in Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xlii. ii. (1874) 
97, t. 15; For. Fl. iii. 525 ; stemless, leaves palmately flabellate 12-20 ft. 
cam. divided to the middle 6-10 ft. long, petiole 18-25 ft. slender base as 
wt às the arm, spines black, drupe the size of a cherry smooth olive 
n. 
SOUTH ANDAMAN Isrps., Kurz. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. . 
5. C. MARTIANA, Becc. mss. ; panicle hemispherical, branchlets pendulous, petiole 
ius with small strong black spines, calyx broadly 3-lobed, ovary conico-ovoid 
arrowed into the short style, drupe on a stipes A. in. long. 
a c2 Mergui ? ( Hort. Calcutt.). . 
28.7. MBRACULIFERA, Linn.; Wall. Cat. 8615; branchlets of panicle about 
de A AN C. Ta/liera, calyx distinctly 3-lobed, ovary gradually narrowed into a 
rt style.—Hort, Carey 1828, Wallich. 
18. NANNORHOPS: H. Wendl. 
is À gregarious tufted low-growing glabrous palm, with prostrate branch- 
ð g robust rhizomes or stems. Leaves cuneately flabellate, rigid, plicate, 
d 1t Into curved 2-fid segments; petiole short. Spadix interfoliar, much 
Tanched ; Spathes tubular, sheathing, spathels ochreate; flowers poly- 
pania Calyx tubular, membranous, unequally 3-lobed. Corolla 3- 
Ges" Segments valvate. Stamens in hermaph. fl. 6, in male about 9. 
smal Dgonous; style short, stigma 3-toothed; ovules basilar. Drupe 
s globose or oblong, l-seeded, style basilar. Seed free, erect, 
ventrally hollowed; hilum small, albumen equable; embryo dorsal or 
basilar, 7 ` 
Jour, N. Ritchieana, H. Wendl. in Bot, Zeit. 1879, 143; Aitehis. in 
Gri Linn. Soe, xix. 140, 141 and 187, t. 26. Chamierops Ritchieana, 
vi we Cale. Journ, Nat. Hist. v. 342; Palms Brit. Ind. 133; Brand. 
iii, Bi 947; Gard. Chron. 1886, 652, fig. 128, 129; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 
id and the WzsrERN PaNJAB; on the Salt Range and at Attok, 
lene DISTRIB. Affghanistan. iy branched 
Need A thizome 8-10 ft, long, as thick as a man’s arm, dichotomously branc M , 
middle with old leaf sheaths. Leaves 2-3 ft. long and broad, whitish, split to t he 
reins e ower into rigid segments with often interposed fibres 5 petiole 6-1 in. 
brauch] serrulate, Spadix pyramidal, 2-3 ft., branches ascending an recurved, 
mis slender; flowers in pairs within a membranous spathella, one sessile 
