terminate in long points, and the fruitis globose. D.nanum 
is a native of the Assam Valley, where it was discovered by 
Major Jenkins nearly half a century ago, and sent by him 
to Griffith when in charge of the Calcutta Botanical 
Gardens; it has since been found by several collectors, and 
by myself in the same valleys at the northern base of the 
Khasia Hills. The specimen here figured was received 
from Dr. King, of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, in 1874, 
and flowers annually in the winter months. 
Descr. A dwarf robust Palm, two to three feet high, 
with furfuraceous rusty pubescence on the leaf-sheaths, 
petioles and spathes. Stem short, clothed with leaf-sheaths. 
Leaves one to two feet long, pinnate, glabrous above, rather 
glaucous beneath ; leaflets one to three pair with an odd 
one, subopposite, sessile, seven to ten inches long by three 
to five inches broad, cuneately obovate or oblong, acute, 
rounded or truncate, irregularly transversely cut or lobed, 
finely sharply irregularly toothed, except the quite entire 
cuneate base, midrib strong, lateral nerves very slender, 
flabellate ; oblong thickenings occur on the under-surface 
at the very base of the pinnules between the nerves ; terminal 
pinnule broader, often bifid or bipartite; petiole long, slender; 
sheath long with fibrous margins. Spadiz of male and female 
stout, quite erect,simple or forked once or twice, the branches 
erect; spathes imbricate, concealing the stout peduncle, 
oblong, obtuse, concave, the upper often two-fid. Flowers 
densely crowded on a stout rachis; male about a quarter 
of an inch long, buds oblong obtuse, stamens numerous, 
included; female larger, one-third of an inch in diameter, 
globose, with broader calyx and corolla; ovary trigonously 
globose; stigmas very minute. /rwit oblong, about half 
an inch long, white. Seed solitary.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Underside of base of leaflet; 2, female flower seen from above; 3, the 
same seen sideways; 4, ovary; 5, section of ditto:—all enlarged. © 
