422 CLXIIT. PALMED. (Becrari & Hook, f.) [Arenf/a 



auricled and only on one side, the acute male buds, and by the oblong fruit narrowed 

 at both ends. 



3. A. Wigrhtii, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 475; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 167, t. 235 E ; trunk short stout soboliferous, leaflets alternate 

 crowded lingar 2-auricled at the base, tip narrowed unequally 2-lobed and 

 toothe^ <^J*ite beneath, male buds acute. 



The DfcdbAN PENINSULA; Coimbatore, Wight; Nilghiri hills, alb. 3000 ft, 

 Gamble. 



Trunk 3-8 ft. Leares 12-28 fb. ; leaflets linear-ensiform, 3-3| fb. by l-J-2 in., 

 margins sparingly toothed from the middle upwards ; lower auricle very large, over- 

 lapping the petiole ; petiole 6-8 ft. Spadices 4 ft., peduncle 2 ft. Fruit about 

 the size of a crab-apple, globosely turbinate, broader than long. 



13. CARYOTA, Linn. 



Tall palms, soboliferous or not, flowering from the upper leaf-sheaths, 

 and successively from lower ^alternately male and fern.); trunk naked 

 or sheathed. Leaves few, very large, broad, bipinnatisect ; leaflets very 

 obliquely dimidiately flabelliform, or cuneiform, prsemorse or rounded 

 at the tip, petiolules or bases swollen at the insertion. Bpathes 3-5, incom- 

 plete, tubular. Spadices interfoliar, shortly peduncled, much fastigiately 

 branched ; branches slender, pendulous ; flowers solitary and male, or 

 3-nate with the intermediate fern. Fern. fl. symmetric ; sepals rounded, 

 imbricate; petals linear-oblong, valvate ; stamens very many^ filaments 

 very short, anthers long. Fern. fl. subglobose, sepals rounded, imbricate ; 

 petals rounded, valvate ; ovary 3-celled, stigma 3-lobed, ovules erect. 

 Fruit globose, 1-2-seeded, stigma terminal. Seeds erect ; albumen rumi- 

 nate ; embryo dorsal. Species about 10, tropical Asiatic, Malayan and 

 Australian. 



1. C. urens, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 187 ; trunk stout tall not .soboliferous, 

 leaflets cuneiform very obliquely truncate acutely serrate-toothed, upper 

 margin produced and caudate, male buds cylindric about 3 times as long as 

 broad, stamens 40-45, fruit -f in. diam., base apiculate, testa adherent. 

 G-sertn. fruct. i. 20, t. 7; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 625; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 

 193, t. 107 and 108, and 162 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 479 ; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 160; Thtv. Enum. 329 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 278; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 41. Rheede Hort. Mai. i. t. 11. 



Throughout the HOTTER PARTS or INDIA, from the Sikkim Himalaya and Assam 

 southwards to Ceylon and Singapore DISTRIB. Trop. Asia, Malaya. 



Trunk 30-40 ft. 1 ft, diam., annulate. Leaves 18-20 by 10-12 ft., leaflets 5-6 ft., 

 curved and drooping, pinnules 4-8 in., broadly cuneate, upper narrower, outer 

 margin caudate; petiole very stout. Spadi.r 10-12 ft. long; spathes 1 ft.; 

 branches all reaching the same level ; flowers 3-nate, a fern, between two males ; 

 male \ in. long, or more. Fruit reddish. 



2. C. ofotusa, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 480 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 170 ; glabrous, trunk tall stout not^ soboliferous, leaflets very 

 obliquely cuneiform crenate, upper margin no't caudate, male buds about 

 as long as broad, stamens very many, fruit f-1 in. diam., base not apicu- 

 late. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 195. C. obtusidentata, Griff. Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 236 A, B. 



UPPER ASSAM ; Mishmi Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Griffith. 



