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corolla twice as long, polished. Fruit pisiform, \ inch in diameter, 

 abruptly beaked ; scales very pale, obscurely channelled, margin 

 brown. 



Habitat. — Bengal, Assam, the Khasia Hills, Silhet, Chittagong, 

 Burma. 



Flowers. — In April. 



30. C. NITIDUS, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 334 ; Kuiith Enum. Ill, 

 I'll ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist., V. 49 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 59 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 117 ; Walp. Ann. Ill, 484, V, 830 ; Wall. Cat. 8609 ; 

 Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. VI., 449 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 652 ; Becc. in Ann, 

 Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 94,302. 



Description. — Probably scandent and slender. Leaves 60-70 

 cm, long. Leaflets equidistant, rigidulous close-set, 15-18 cm. 

 long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, shining, margins thickened, 

 co&tae 3, setulose on both surfaces or on the upper only ; rhachis 

 with simple or compound recurved spines, 



Male and female spadices very slender with many partial inflor- 

 escences and a very slender flagellum at their summit ; primar}'' 

 spathes open and flat duriug the anthesis, broadly linear, somewhat 

 longer than the inflorescences. Fruiting perianth shortly pedicelli- 

 form. Fruit very small. 



Habitat. — Tavoy in Tenasserim, 



31. C. PLATYSPATHUS, M&Tt. Hist. ii&t. Palm. Ill, 210 ; Griff, in 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 75 ; Pakns Brit. Ind. 83: Kurzin Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XL., 214 ; Hooker Fl. Brit. Ind. VI., 449 ; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. 

 Ind. II, 207, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 94, 304. Dae7no7iorops platki/- 

 spathus, Mart. 1. c. ed. 2, 206, 329 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. HI., 99 ; Walp. Ann. 

 Ill, 479, v., 828. 



Description, — Leaflets few, 10-12 inches long, 1-1^ inch broad, 

 scattered, alternate, ensiibrm, acuminate, 5-7-costate, rigid, mar- 

 gins bristly towards the apex, j'^oung pale, softly scurfy beneath, 

 margins thickened with obscure distant asperities ; rhachis armed 

 with straight and recurved, sti'ong, solitary and binate spines with 

 swollen bases, sheath armed with close-set, straight, subulate spines, 

 Male spadix long, ver}- slender, sparsely shortlj'' armed, inflorescen- 

 ces short, 3-4 inches long, subsessile, paniculately branched; spi- 

 kelets very short, {-^ inch long, few-flowered. Upper spathes 

 with very short sheaths and flat, linear-oblong, laminse, 3-4 inches 

 long, ^-| inch broad ; spatliellules ver}^ short, acute. Male flowers 

 yV inch long, pale, close-set, pointing forwards ; calyx sharplv 

 toothed, striate ; corolla twice as long as the calyx, not striate. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim : Tavoy. 



32. C. MYRIANTHUS, Becc. in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 451 ; Rec, 

 Bot. Surv. Ind. II, 207 ; Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 94, 306 ; Brandis, 

 Tnd. Trees, 653. 



Dkscriptton. — Apparently scandent and of moderate size 



