du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg,’ from the rich 
collection of Palms cultivated in that renowned garden. 
Deser.—Stems ceespitose, slender, about three and a half 
feet high, brownish-purple. Leaves elliptical, bifid nearly 
to the middle, sometimes with a pair of basal leaflets, 
lobes serrate at the apex, green, with darker spots; sheath 
long, spindle-shaped; petiole short. Spadie below the 
leaves, recurved, pilose, simple ; flowers in spirally arranged 
groups of three, the central female, the lateral male and 
deciduous before the female opens. Male flowers: calyx- 
lobes broadly triangular, shortly acuminate; petals sub- 
orbicular ; stamens many, filaments short, anthers oblong, 
two or three times as long as the filaments. Semale 
flowers bright red: sepals and petals orbicular or almost 
reniform, ciliate; staminodes none; ovary shortly oblong; 
stigmas three, sessile ; ovule small, basal—C. H. Waricar. 
Figs. 1 and 2, male flowers; 3, calyx; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, female flowers; 
7, the same with the sepals removed; 8, longitudinal section of the pistil :— 
all except 1 enlarged. 
