THE PALMS OF BRITISH l^^DIA AND CEYLON, J 11 



the axils, very slouder, arched, their axes filiform, 1-3 cm. long, 

 with 5-15 distichous iiowers on each side; involucre calyculi- 

 Ibrm, subtending and not enveloping the flower. Feniale 

 spadix siniply decompound, similar to the male one, terminating 

 in a rather elongate flagellitbrm appendix ; spikelets slender, 

 5-8 cm. long with 15-20 bifarious flowers on each side ; involucro- 

 phorium more or less distinctly pedicellate. Fruiting perianth 

 pedicelliform. Fruit globose, 1 cm. in diameter. Scales sub- 

 squarrose in 15 series, not distinctly channelled. Seed irregularly 

 globular, coarselj' pitted, albumen sub-ruminate; embryo basal. 

 Habitat. — Nicobar Islands. 



52. CALAMLS SCIPIONUM, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 3,210; Liim. 

 Encycl. VI, y04, non Illustr. and e.vcl. si/n.) ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Pahn. ill, 

 342 ; Kunth Ejium. Ill, 206; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 35; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 43 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 138 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI, 461. — C. micmnthuA Bl. Kumph. Ill, 53 (fol. tantum), t. 157 {crcl. 

 spad. and anal. /.}.— Clung, Griff. 11. cc. 37, 46. 



Description. — Stem 40-60 feet high, sheath 2-3 inches in 

 diameter. Leaves 4-5 feet long ; flagellum 10-12 feet long ; leaf- 

 lets numerous, firm, equidistant, upper gradually smaller, elongate- 

 lanceolate or subensiform, aculeolate, tips bristly ; rhachis as thick 

 as the little finger, smooth except from the scattered spines, obtusely 

 trigonous iTT ; costa3 5-7, naked on both surfaces or sparsely aculeo- 

 late beneath ; margins of leaflets nearl}'" smooth, uppermost pair 

 connate at the base ; petiole armed with very stout conico-subulate 

 scattered recurved spines. 



Spadices very long flagellifero\is ; lower spathes very long, tubu- 

 lar, unarmed, or their keels armed. Male spadix about 20 feet long, 

 lemale about 10 feet; spathels 1 inch long, tubular, truncate, 

 smooth, unarmed, or with a few conical tubercles ; branches of 

 female spadix long; spikes 2-4 inches, rather distant, spreading and 

 recurved, stout ; spathellules and bracts very short imbricate ; female 

 flowers sessile. 



Fruiting calyx very small, pedicelliform, broadly urceolate. base 

 truncate intruded, mouth much contracted, lobes very short, l^^ruit 

 small, ovoid or globose, abruptly mammillate, brown, scales shining, 

 tumid, with broad pale scarious margins. Seed when young sub- 

 ovoid, alveolate, embryo basilar. 



Distribution. — Malaka, Perak, Borneo. Sometimes found in 

 Indian gardens. 



Illustration. — Plate CVI. 



UNRECO(iNIZEI) SPECIES. 



C. QUINQUENEEVIUS, lloxh.¥l Ind. 111,777 ; Kunth Enuni. Ul. 

 209; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. .'USD ; Griff', in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 



