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Male spadix compact, about 2 feet long, slightly curved, closely 

 imbricated with the scarioiis, striated, split spathes. Spikes stalked, 

 exserted ; stalks nearly as long as the spathes, also covered with 

 imbricated spathes, the uppermost of Avhich resemble those of the 

 flowers, except in not prodticing any villosity. The spikes them- 

 selves are 2^ and 3 inches long, and scarcely \ inch in diameter, 

 the bracts both of the base and apex appearing to be empty. 



Female spadix panicnlately branched, spikes tomentose. Male 

 flowers : bracts rounded, distinct, and presenting on the outer side 

 of each flower a tuft of hair. Flowers densely crowded, so that 

 their disposition is not at first apparent, the buds depressed at the 

 apex. Calyx tripartite to about the middle, scarious, striate, 

 segments oblong, concave. Corolla (which was not seen by 

 Griffith in an expanded state) about the length of the calyx, 

 divided not quite to the middle, segments oblong, concave. 

 Stamens united to the petals as high as the base of the 

 segments. Filaments (free) obsolete. Anthers oblong. Female 

 flowers ? Fruit appears to be ovoid, 2 inch ? long, ending 

 in a stout cone ; pericarp thin, clothed with spreading and ascending 

 subulate-lanceolate, recurved, dark brown scales \ inch long and 

 under; no appearance of a succulent endocarp. Seeds 1-1 5 inch 

 long, various in shape, from subglobose to hemispheric or trigonous 

 with a convex back, and very rounded angles, dark brown, not 

 polished, with a deep small, apical hollow leading to the canal 

 which extends more than half Avay into the dense albumen ; embryo 

 above the base dorsal or sublateral, indicated externally by a 

 circular convexity with depressed margins ^ inch in diameter or less. 



Habitat. — Upper Assam, in forests about Kujoo ; the Mishmi 

 Mountains, and on the lower ranges of hills on the borders of 

 Upper Assam. 



ZALACCA WALLICHIANA, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 200, 325, 

 t. 118, 119, 136 ; Kurz in Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXVIl (1864), 216 ; 

 For. Fl. II, 511; Becc. Males. Ill, 66; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 473; 

 Brandis Ind. Trees, 649. — Zalacca edulis, Wall. Cat. n. 5000 ; PI. As. Ear. 

 Ill, 14, t. 222-224 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 8 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 



10, t, 175. — Z. rumphii, Blume llnmphia II, 159. — Z. macrostachya, Griff. 



11. cc. 13 and 15, t. 178, A, B, C ; Becc. 1. c. 66. 



Brandis refers Z. edulis, Reinw. to Z. vallichiana ; and in this 

 he is following Griffith (Palms Brit. Ind, 10); Hooker, on the 

 contrary says: "The Malayan Z. edulis, Reinw., not hitherto found 

 in the Malayan Peninsula, has the leaflets white beneath." 



Griffith's Z. macrostachya has been referred to Z. irallichiana by 

 Beccari. He says, that it is a much stouter form with oblanceolate 

 leaflets and spikes 3 inches long and nearly 1 inch in 

 diameter. 



Name. — Yingan (Burni.). 



