It is a native of Gede Mountain, Java, where it is known by the 
name of “ Pangang,” according to Blume. We received our 
_ plant from Mr. Makoy, of Liége, in 1847. 
_ Descr. Our plant, with its ample foliage, has attained a 
height of seven feet, and is remarkable for its tree- or almost 
Palm-like character, erect, flexuose, scarcely branched, in the 
present instance only once forked, and leafy only at the extre- 
tity of these two branches, prickly on the branches and a little 
way down the stem; prickles subulate, slightly curved, spread- 
ing horizontally. Leaves large, on ‘long petioles, swollen at the 
base, digitate, of about seven large leaflets, which are oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminated, serrated in their upper half, penninerved, 
glabrous. Raceme four to five feet long, pendent from the apex 
of the stem, and bearing at the end of the branches (which are 
sometimes again divided) large, capitate, quite globose, densely 
flowered wméels of a brownish or yellowish green colour. Main 
rachis and peduncles prickly. Pedicels downy. Maun flowers 
(which only have appeared in our plant) :—Ca/y« obscurely five- 
toothed. Petals five, spreading, ovate, thick and leathery, the 
apices inflexed and ragged. Ovary imperfect, imbedded in a 
ares, fleshy, slightly lobed, yellowish disc. Style short, conical, 
a al 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same more expanded :—magnified. 
