figured is anything but the young state of Panar Murrayi ; 
—provided always that the two are supposed to agree in 
_their flowers and fruits. These characters, however, cannot 
be satisfactorily resorted to, for there are only fruits and very 
imperfect male flowers on the Herbarium specimens of 
P. Murrayi, and only male flowers without fruit on Mr. 
Bull’s plant; the calyces alone of the two can be com- 
pared, and they appear to be identical. 
_ Descr. Stem in the plant figured now (1885) four feet 
high, stout, erect, as thick as the wrist. Leaves forming 
an elegant umbrella-formed crown to the stem eight feet. 
in diameter, numerous, close-set, spreading and recurved, 
three to four feet long, shortly petioled ; rachis as stout as 
a goose-quill, terete, puberulous, slightly thickened at the 
nodes, green speckled with brown; leaflets ten to twelve 
pair, approximate, petiolulate, three to six inches long, 
oblong-lanceolate from an oblique rounded base, one to three 
inches broad, acuminate, entire or undulate or subcrenate, 
bright green, shining; nerves very faint, spreading. 
Racemes simple, crowded at the end of the stem, suberect, 
strict, a foot long; rachis very stout, pubescent ; umbels 
subglobose, one inch in diameter, on peduncles one inch 
long or less ; pedicels one-fourth to one-sixth of an inch. 
Flowers all male, pale greenish brown; calyx truncate, 
with five minute teeth; petals one-eighth of an inch long, | 
reflexed ; stamens erect, anthers oblong, as long as the 
ae ; Style short, erect, two-grooved, tip emarginate. 
Fig: 1, Bud; 2 and 3, flowers; 4 and 5, stamens ; 6, pedicel, calyx, and style:— _ 
all enlarged. ae 
