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61 ; Palms Brit. fnd. 72; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 460; Brandis Ind. Trees 

 654 ; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. II, 215; Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI. 

 503. 



Names. — Hurnur-gullar (in Silhet). 



Description. — Scandent, stem when cleaned about as thick as a 

 man's finger throughout, the joints from 6-8 inches long. Leaves 

 flagelliferous ; leaflets few, remote, alternate, equidistant, narrowly 

 lanceolate, 5-nerved. Spines in belts, distinct, few, short and 

 strong. Spadix decompound. Fruit spherical. 



Hooker and Beccari have not been able to recognize this species. 



Habitat. — Silhet. 



PLEGTOGOMIOPSIS, Becc. 



(From Plectocomia (cf, foregoing genus) and " opsis " appear- 

 ance). 



" Characters of Plectocomia, but upper leaves reduced to sheaths 

 with long flagella and no leaflets, spathels small, infundibular, 

 and frait clothed with very miniite, almost microscopic scales, 

 arranged in vertical series. Seed globose, smooth ; albumen equable ; 

 embryo basilar. Species 3, Malayan." (Hooker.) 



Fledocomio'psis paradoxus, Becc. in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI, 480; Br.andis Ind. Trees 650. — Calamus jyaradoxus, Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. XLIII, II, 213, t. 29, 30; Forest Fl. II, 521. 



An evergreen, extensive climber, all parts glabrous ; stem with 

 the sheaths 1-2 inches in diameter ; leaves pinnate, 5-7 feet long- 

 terminating in a whip-like hooked-thorny tendril ; petiole short, 

 along with the lower part of the rhachis indistinctly puberulous and 

 armed underneath and near both margins with more or less 

 straight, sharp thorns; sheaths armed with yellowish, sharp, flat 

 spines arranged into combs; leaflets 1-1^ feet long, up to 1 inch 

 broad, of a thin texture, alternating by pairs and i-emote margin- 

 ate, shortly acuminate, inconspicuously and remotely appressed- 

 ciliolate. Male spadix bifariously decompound ample, drooping ; 

 spathes all smooth, tubular, with a truncate, shortly acuminate 

 limb ; spathules similarly shaped, but much smaller, embracing the 

 base of the very short (1-3 lin. long), distichously imbricate 

 bracted male spikelets ; bracts spreading, ovate, acute about 1 lin.. 

 long, brown, glabrous. Male flowers : cah^x about 1 lin. long, 

 deeply 3-cleft, striate ; petals rigid, connate at the base, nearly 

 2^ lin. long, oblong, acute ; stamens 6 ; filaments rigid, the lower 

 part linear-oblong, longer and broader than the anthers, terminat- 

 ing in an infracted thi-ead, from which the anther is versatilely 

 suspended ; pistillode hardly any. 



Habitat. — Martaban ; in the evergreen tropical forests ofPalawa 

 Zeik, east of Tounghoo. 



Flowers in April. 



