138 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



Young stem whitish, powdery. Leaves without tendrils. Pinna interruptedly- 

 fascicled. iJnipes globular, straw-coloured. 



C. L.iTiroLius, Roxb. Tree forests all over Burma and the.Audamans. 



Yan-ma-htu. 



Glabrous. Leaves tendril-bearing. Pinnx broad, alternately approximate. 

 Drupes oblong, brown. 



\ \ Scales of fiuiis produced into a fringed appendage as long or longer than the 

 cruslaceous scale itself. 



C. AxDAiiAxicus, Kz. The Andamans and Tree forests of 



Kamorta and Car Sicobar. 



Leaves tendril-bearing. Inflorescence without tendrils. Pruj^es I inch long, 

 straw-coloured. 



C. iiuKiNus, Kz. Tree Forests of Pegu. Tenasserim and the Andamans. 



Lemay. 



Leaves without tendrils. Inflorescence with tendrils. Prtqies an inch long or 

 more, variegated dark and pale brown. 



f f Prupes seated on the erect, indurated, thick, pedicel-like pierianth. Spathules 

 usuallg long-exserted and tubular, rarely eymhiform and imbricate, rarely truncate. 



Spathules imbricate, broader than long, truneate. 



C. TENUIS, Eoxb. Chittagong and Pegu. 



Leaves without tendrils. Pinna: equidistant. Prupes globular, | inch thick, 

 straw-coloured. 



Spathules exserted and rather elongate. 



" S/iathes icith a short acute limb only. 



C. GRACILIS, Pioxb. Chittagong. 



Leaves without tendrils. Pinna interruptedly-approximate. Prupes ellipsoid, 

 straw-coloured, nearly an inch long. 



C. Helferiams, Kz. Tenasserim (or the Andamans). 



Leaves without tendrils. Pinna equidistant, narrow. Spathes green, veiy thin, 

 compressed-tubular, almost unarmed. 



C. PARADOXUS, Kz. Tree forests of Palawa-zoik (Toukyakat) East of Toung-ngoo. 



Leaves tendril-bearing. Pimm distinct, alternately approximate. Male flowers 

 in recurved small spikelets, or fascicles exserted from the spathules. 



° ° Lower spathes e.rpanded in a flat elongate limb, only at the short base tubular. 



C. GURUBA, Mart. All over Burma. 



Kyeing-ni (Kurz). 



Leaves without tendrils. Pinna narrow, equidistant. Prupes globular, the size 

 of a pea, the scales straw-coloured with dm-k borders. 



* * Flowers usually pedicelled. Spathes deciduous, the outer one boat-shaped and 

 large. Albumen usually ruminate. 



D.^EiioxoRors, Plume. 



Spathes cleft to the base. Spathules incomplete, reduced to bractcolcs. Spadix 

 erect, stiff, never tendril-bearing. Scandent rattan Palms. 



f Spathes unarmed, or nearly so. 



D. HYPOLEUcus, Kz. Tcnasseiim. The Thoungyeen Valley. 

 Leaves without tendrils. Pinna interruptedly approximate, white beneath. 



f f Spathes, or at least the outer ones, much armed. 



