Eugeissmia.] ` cxi. parmeæ. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 481 
E. tristis, Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 101; Palms Brit. Ind. 
109, t. 220 A ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 212, t. 179, 180; Bece. in Nuov. 
Giorn. Bot. Ital. iii. 98. 
MALAY PRNINSULA and PENANG, Griffith, &c. 
Stems densely tufted, very short or 0. Leaves 15-20 ft. ; leaflets many, 2-2 ft., 
harrow-lanceolate, subulate, acuminate, midrib bristly above; petiole 7-10 ft., 
armed with flat brown spines. Spadix 4-6 ft., sheaths and spathes armed; flowers 
l-14 in. long, terminal on the flexuous branches of the spadix ; bracts many, closely 
mbricating. Fruit the size of a hen's egg, beak clothed to the tip with scales. 
32. METROXYLON, Rottb. 
Stout monocarpie palms. Leaves equally pinnatisect, leaflets opposite. 
Spadiz very large, panicled, clothed with coriaceous spinous spathes ; 
spikes Sessile, catkin-like, short, distichous, recurved; bracts broader than 
ong, bracteoles cupular. Flowers polygamous, densely crowded; perianth 
coriaceous. Male fl. calyx 3-fid, funnel-shaped, nerved ; corolla segments 
oblong, valvate; stamens 6, anthers dorsifixed ; pistillode 3-partite. Fem. 
Du ike the males, perianth hardly accrescent ; staminodes a membranous 
Zb: ovary oblong, retrorsely scaly, imperfectly 3-celled; style conie, 
toothed, ovules 3, basilar. Fruit ellipsoid or subglobose, 1-celled, 
» pericarp tessellate with reversed scales; endocarp spongy. . Seed 
tel, subglobose, rough ; albumen ruminate ; embryo ventral. Species 6? 
yan and Pacific. 
lw. Sagus, Rottb. in Nye Saml. K. Dansk. Vid. Skrift. ii. 527 ; 
Ze unarmed. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 147; Becc. in Nuov. Giorn. 
ln Tal. ii. 99, M. inermis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 215. Sagus 
Cal Rumph. Herb. Amb. i. 76; Blume Rwmphia, ii. 147, t. 86; Griff. in 
Sen t. Nat. Hist. v. 20; Palms Brit. Ind. 24 (not t. 188). S. 
Weit Blume l. c.t. 126, 227. PS. Koenigi, Griff. /l. cc. 19 and 22, 
| S. inermis, Boch, Fi. Ind. iii. 623. 
ALACCA (wild or cult. &c.— DisTRIB. Malay Islds. 
a nk aboni 20 ft. with Pelt anal offshoots, as stout as that of the cocoa-nut, 
malate, clothed above with old leaf sheaths. Leaves as in the cocoa-nut, but 
ant ects unarmed ; leaflets linear, acute, keeled, smooth. Infl. appearing when tho 
Spik bout twenty years old. Spadices several, terminal, alternately branche A 
Cum 5-8 in. Flowers minute, sunk in rusty wool, hardly larger than a grain of 
&p wie Seed, bisexual. Fruit (takes three years to mature) globose, size of a smal 
to queles shining, channelled.—Desc. from Jack in Mal. Misc., but accor ling 
Sago Pale the Indian Metroxylon bears no resemblance to a Cocoa-nut Palm.— 
. M. Rumphi Jat. Hist. Palm. iii. 213, 313, t. 102, 159 ; 
Pathes armed with log anion Mig. Fl. Ind. But. iii. 140; Becc. in Nuov. 
ve bet Ital. iii. 30; Malesia, i. 91, Sagus Rumphii, Willd. Sp. Pl iv. 
uif ; Roxb, F], Ind. iii. 623. S. genuina, Blume Rumphia, i. 150. S. fari- 
we Gærtn, ii, 186, t. 120, f, 3.— Rumph. Herb. Amb. i. 75, t. 17, 18. 
Matacoa ( i 
wild or cult.),—DistrtB. Malay Islds. , 
of ua * appears to be de confusion in the synonymy of the two common d that 
X Si genus, and that here given may be open to correction. Beccari states that 
“mphii is much less cultivated than M. Sagus. 
33. BORASSUS, Linn. 
A tery tall diceeious palm; trunk stout, unarmed. Leaves terminal, 
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