applies. It is a most elegant little Palm, differing from its 
great congener C. wrens in size, in the nearly glabrous petioles, 
and in sending out suckers from the base of the stem, as C. 
sobolifera does, but much fewer of them. It may indeed 
prove identical with C. sobolifera, a native of Malacca, 
described by Griffith subsequently to C. Cumingii; but the 
leaflets appear longer. As with all its congeners, after 
arriving at maturity it throws out a flowering spadix (in this 
case male) from the uppermost leaf-axil, and then from the 
next leaf-axil lower down, and so on downwards till all the 
leaf-axils have flowered, after which the stem dies. There 
is thus fruit at the top of the tree and buds at the bottom 
for a long period. 
Descr. Trunk ten feet high, erect, covered almost to the 
base with the sheathing leaf-bases, as thick as the forearm. 
Leaves about five to six feet long, spreading, three to four 
feet broad, bipinnate; sheath very coriaceous, glabrous, dark 
green ; petiole terete, thicker than the thumb; rachis terete 
for halfway up, then becoming compressed laterally, slightly 
convex on the back, grooved in front, presenting a vertically 
elongate oblong figure when cut across, the apex and the 
partial raches having on their sides a sparse black fur- 
furaceous down. Pinnules eight to ten inches long, rather 
coriaceous, sessile, two to two and a half inches broad, sub- 
falcate, obliquely cuneate for one-quarter to one-third up 
from the base; lower margin straight, upper entire for the 
cuneate portion, then irregularly sharply erose for the other 
two-thirds ; lowest pinnule shorter and broader, uppermost 
longer. Spadix a foot long, formed of a bundle of floriferous 
simple partial spadices, green. Dale Jlower half an inch long; 
sepals very broad and short, ciliate, almost circular and cup- 
shaped. Petals one-quarter to one-third of an inch long, four 
times as long as the calyx, very coriaceous, erecto-patent, 
oblong, obtuse. Anthers narrow, bilobed at the apex; fila- 
ments very short.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Reduced view of the Palm. 2. Pinnule. 3. Portion of spadix. 
4. Female flower. 5. Male ditto. 6. Stamen :—all but 2 and 3 magnified. 
