Tas. 5105. 
PLECTOCOMIA Assamica. 
Assam Plectocomia. 
Nat. Ord. PatmMace#.—Drecia HExANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores dioici in spadice elongato, per spicam simplicem vel ramo- 
sam dispositi, sub spathis incompletis squamzformibus distiche imbricatis recon- 
diti, sessiles, masculi geminati, foeminei solitarii; illi: Calya exterior trifidus ; 
interior 3-partitus, preefloratione valvatus. Stamina 6; filamenta subulata, basi 
coherentia; anthere lineares, fere basi affixe. Ovariwm rudimentum nullum. 
Fem. Calyx maris. “Stamina ananthera, in cupulam hypogynam membranaceam 
sexfidam coalita. Ovarium 3-loculare; loculo uno alterove sepe effeto. Stig- 
mata 3, subsessilia, subulata. Bacca squamis retrorsis imbricatis loricata, 1-lo- 
cularis, 1-sperma. Albumen zquabile, corneum. Embryo basilaris. —Caudex 
longissimus, sarmentoso-scandens. Frondes maxima, pinnate ; pinnis reduplicatis ; 
rachi sepe in cirrhum longissimum excurrente, dorso aculeis multilobis uncinatis ar- 
mata. Spadices laterales, divisi in ramos longos, spathis coriacers Juscidulis laxe 
rr eae coopertos. lores ochroleuci vel rubello-fusciduli. Fractus castanes. 
th. 
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PLEcTocom1a Assamica ; spathis laxe patentibus lato-oblongis brevi-acuminatis 
obtuse sub-complicato-carinatis coloratis, petalorum laciniis longe acumima- — 
tis, staminibus 8-12. 
Prectocomra Assamica. Griff. in Calcutta Journ. of Nat. Hist. v. 5. p. 97. 
Piectocomra Khasiyana? Griff. in Caleutta Journ. v. 5. p. 98; Palms of the 
ast Indies, p. 106. ¢, 218. 
PLEctocomia Himalayana? Griff. in Calcutta Journ. v. 5. p. 100, and in Palms 
of the East Indies, p. 108. ¢. 219. 
ZALACCA Assamica, Wall. MSS. in Hort. Caleut. Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Caleut. 
Pp. 639 (name only). 
This very interesting species of Palm has flowered at the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, recently, for the second time ; plants having been 
sent to us many years ago by the late Dr. Wallich, under the 
name of Zalacca Assamica, Wall. MSS. This same plant Grif- 
fith has, in the ‘Calcutta Journal of Natural History, properly 
referred to the genus Plectocomia, and has distinguished it, with 
little care or accuracy, from the P: elongata of Martius and 
Blume. Griffith has, indeed, figured and described (very imper- 
MARCH lst, 1859. 
