TAB. 4584, 
WALLICHIA penstrtora. 
Dense-flowered Wallichia. 
Nat. Ord. PatmMacea&.—Mone@cra HexanpRia. 
Gen. Char. Wauticuia, Roxd.—Flores in caudicis multicipitis diversis spa-. 
dicibus (polygamo-) monoici (aut polygamo-dioici, Griff.). Spathe plures, pe- 
dunculanez, incomplete, distiche. Spadices deorsum evoluti, terminales et 
laterales, axe post omnium, quos ferebat, evolutionem moriente.—Masc. flores 
inferiores per paria dispositi, cum vel absque fceminei rudimento intra 2 brac- 
teolas conchzeformes delitescente. Caly# monophyllus, tridenticulatus trilobusve, 
aut triphyllus, sepalis distinctis imbricatis. Petala 3, valvata. Stamina 6 aut 
indefinita, antheris linearibus. Rudimentum pistilli nullum.—Fem. intra braec- 
teas 2 conchzeformes, solitarii aut pari masculorum effcetorum stipati (raro ex- 
cessu hermaphroditi, staminibus 3, Griff). Calyx et corolla 3-partita. Rudi- 
menta staminum nulla aut 8. Ovarium 2- raro 3-loculare, ovulis adscendentibus. 
Stigmata 2 vel 3, brevia, sessilia. Bacca exsucea, 2- raro 1- vel 3-sperma. Albumen 
quabile, solidum, cartilagineum. Embryo dorsalis.—Palme humiles, multicipite 
cespitose. Caudices aut subnulli aut arundinacei, breves, exhaustis spadicibus 
emorientes. Frondes in subacaulibus terminales, in caudescentibus quoque laterales, 
pinnate, pinnis cuneatis, antice varie sinuato-excisis lobatisve et eroso-denticulatis, 
multinerviis subtus albidis crassiusculis. Spadices laterales, axillares, ramosi vel 
simplices, intra spathas persistentes. Flores albi vel ochroleuci, foeminei viridi- 
purpurei. Bacce oliveformes, purpuree aut albide, succo 0b rhaphidum copiam 
acri pruriente. Mart. 
Waticuta (Harina) densiflora ; subacaulis, pinnis subtus albidis imis binatim 
fasciculatis reliquis solitariis lineari-oblongis basi breviter cuneatis integer- 
rimis ceterum sinuoso-lobatis dentatisque ut plurimum eroso-serratis obtuse 
acuminatis, florum foem. densi (div. 2) dispositorum bractea obliterata, ala- 
bastro globoso, corolle segmentis obtusis depressis ovario brevioribus. Mart. 
Waxticuta densiflora. Mart. Palm. v. 1. p. 189. e¢ Suppl. p. 190. 
Watticuia oblongifolia. Griff. in Cale. Journ. v.5. p. 486. 
A native of Assam, where it was detected by Wallich, Jenkins, 
and Masters, according to Martius; Griffith states that the Seha- 
rampore Garden collectors found it near Darjecling in Sikkim- 
Himalaya. Dr. Hooker remarks, it is common in damp forests 
at the foot of the Eastern Himalaya, extending at least as far 
west as Kamaon, where Dr. Thomson found it at an elevation of 
JUNE Ist, 1851. 
