THE PALMS OF niUTISlI IXDIA AND CEYLON. 



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All evergreen, large, tufted, steiuless or almost steniless palm, 

 1 2-20 teet high or somewhat higher, all parts glabi'ous. Leaves 

 15-20 feet, long, pinnate; petiole 8t10 feet long, sheathing at the 

 base, copiously armed with \-\\ inch long, flat, sharp, somewhat 

 retlexed spines arranged in broken spirals ; the rhachis similarly 

 armed, hnt the spines becoming gradually solitary towards tiie 

 upper part ; leaflets iuequidistant and alternate, broad-lanceo- 

 late, 3-ribbed, 2-3 feet long, distantly spinulose-ciliate, green 

 on both sides, subulate and almost tendril-like acuminate, the 

 upper leaflets confluent, 2-cleft, with as many lobes as leaflets 

 united. 



Fig. 1— 



To the left : Terminal spike of spadix of Z. icallichiana. Mart- 

 To the right : Upper part of spadix of the same (after Griffith.) 



Spadix elongate, fastigiately branched, dimorphic, one male only, 

 with densely tomentose spikes, the other monoecious, very dense- 

 flowered (fig. 1 ) ; each bract seems to correspond to a cluster of o 

 flowers, a female between 2 males or neuters, and with 2 densely 

 tomentose bracteoles j rhachis densely but shortly browii-scurfj'. 



