WalUc.liia.~\ CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 419 



sepals orbicular, coriaceous, imbricate ; petals triangular valvate ; stami- 

 nodes few orO; ovary 2-3-celled, stipitate; stigmas conic ; ovules subbasilar. 

 Fruit ovoid-oblong, 1-3-celled and -seeded. Seeds erect, plano-convex; 

 albumen equable; embryo dorsal. Species 3 or more, Indian and Malayan'. 



1. W. densiflora, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 190, & Suppl. 315; 

 leaflets oblong or linear-oblong sinuately lobed acutely toothed white 

 beneath, fern. fl. crowded 2-bracteate, male corolla twice as long as the calyx, 

 mouth of calyx quite entire, fern, corolla shorter than the ovary. Kurz 

 If or. Fl. ii. 532 ; Brandis For. Fl. 549 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4584. W. oblongi- 

 folia, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 486; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xi. 6. Harina oblongifolia, Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 175, t. 237 A, B, C. 

 W. caryotoides, Wall. Cat. 8596 B. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA from Kumaoti eastwards, asceadiug to 3000 ft. ASSAM, 

 the KHASIA HILLS, and CHITTA&ONG. 



Stems very short or (or often 8-15 fc. Kurz) ; trunk sheathed, scurfy, sheaths 

 villous, resolving into strong fibres. Leaves 8-10 ft. ; leaflets 1-2 ft., very many, 

 alternate or the lower 2-1-nate, 1-costate and with many parallel nerves, bright 

 green above ; sheaths scurfy. Spathes purple. Spadices 12-18 in. long, branches 

 of feni. very stout ; flowers in many spiral series; male fl. yellow, solitary, or the 

 lower in pairs with an intermediate fern.; filaments adnate to the petals ; fern. fl. 

 purplish ; calyx very short, corolla-lobes obtuse. Ffuit about \ in. long, dull 

 purple. 



2. W. caryotoides, Roxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 295; leaflets oblong or 

 linear-oblong pandurifortnly excised and acutely toothed white beneath, 

 fl. fern, distant 3-bracteate, male corolla half as long as the calyx, mouth of 

 calyx 3- toothed, fern, corolla about twice as long as the ovary. Mart. 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 180, t. 136 ; Wall. Cat. 8596 A ; Griff, in Gale. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. v. 485; Kurz For. FL ii. 532; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 34. 

 Harina caryotoides, Ham in Mem. Wern. Soc. v. 317 ; Grriff- Palms 

 Brit. Ltd. 174, t. 237. Wrightia caryotoides, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 68; FL 

 Ind. iii. 621. 



CHITTAGONG, and BURMA, in hill forests, ascending to 4000 ft. 



Habit of W. oblongifolia, and very similar in foliage and inflorescence, but 

 differing in the characters given above and in the fruit, which Kurz describes as 

 being as large as a nutmeg, ovoid-oblong, rarely 2 -seeded. (Roxburgh says as 

 large as a coffee bean.) 



3. W. disticha, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 6; trunk tall 

 stout, leaves distichous, leaflets fascicled linear narrowed to the base prse- 

 morse denticulate, male calyx cupular 3-lobed, corolla thrice as long, 

 fern, corolla longer than the ovary. W. Yomee, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 533. 

 Caryota mitis, Herb. Calcutt. 



SIKKIAI HIMALAYA, in tropical gorges, T. Anderson, and probably eastwards! 

 ; Kurz. 



Trunk 10-15 ft. by 5-6 in. diam., naked, annulate. Leaves 6-10 ft., alternate 

 erect; leaflets narrowing from near the truncate apex to the base and with a large 

 tooth on each side about the middle, 1-2 ft., by 2-2^ in., glaucous beneath ; petiole 

 and sheath short, scurfy. Male spadix 3-4 ft., very narrow, linear in outline, with 

 innumerable recurved slender crowded branches. Fern, spa dix 6-8 ft., pendulous; 

 branches stout, simple ; flowers disposed in many spiral series, green. Fruit oblong, 

 Lop obscurely 2-3-lobed, reddish. Kurz describes the loaves as disposed iu a - 

 spiral. 



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