THE PALMS OF lUll I'lSlI ISDIA AND CEYLON. 



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'i-Ci, remote, Uexiiose, witii about halt' a dozen alternate, recurved 

 branches on each side. Spathes elongate, tubular, lower G-10 in- 

 ches with a short limb and scattered, recurved spines, partial ones 

 short, unarmed, scurfy when young, spathellules densely crovv^ded, 

 cymbiform. Flowers very small; male Howers y\, inch long, not dis- 

 tichous and spreading but secund in 3-4 series, imbricating, sub- 

 erect. Fruit h inch in diameter, subglobose, miicronate ; scales 

 pale with a shallow median channel and very narrow discoloured 

 margins. (Fig. 1.) 



Fig- 1 — Calamus tenuis. Some branches of a fruitinjjr spadix- 



Habitat, — Tropical Himalaya, from Kumaon eastwards, liengal, 

 Assam, Silhet, Chittagong and Burma. — Cochin China. 



Uses. — The i*otang of this species is much used for domestic 

 work . 



