Canj<>ta,~\ CLXTII. PALME/E. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 423 



Habit and stature of C. wrens, from which it differs in the more rounded and 

 crenate apex of the leaflets, in the shorter unexpanded male flowers and slightly in 

 the fruit. 



Var. cequatorialis, Becc. mss. ; pinnules more acute more deeply crenate or 

 serrate, male fl. larger, stamens more than 100. ? C. ochlandra, Stance in, Journ. 

 Bot. 1879, 174. Malay Peninsula; Perak, Wray (n. 1239). Malay Islands, 

 China. 



3. C. mitis ? Lour. Fl. Cockinch. ii. 559; stem low soboliferous, 

 petioles leaf-sheaths and spathes scurfily villous, leaflets very obliquely 

 cuneiform erose and toothed, upper mai'gin acute, spadix branches scurfy, 

 male buds cylindric, stamens about 15-25. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 

 195; Kunth Enum. iii. ; C. sobolifera, Wall. Cat. 8594 ; Mart. 1. c. iii. 194, 

 t. 107, f. 2 ; Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 481 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 171, 

 t. 236 C ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 41 ; Kurz. For. Fl. ii. 530. C. urens, 

 Jacq. Frogm. 20, t. 12, f. 1. C. nana, Wall Cat. 8595. C. furfuracea, 

 Blume in Mart. 1. c. 195 ; Rumphia, ii. 141 (e;ccl var. candata). C. pro- 

 pinqua, Blume in Mart. 1. c. 195, in Rumpkia I. c. 138, t. 155 (partim) 162. 

 C. Grifnthii, Becc. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. iii. 15. 



BURMA ; from Arracan southwards, and the MALAY PENINSULA, PENANG and 

 the Andaman Islands. DISTEIB. Malay Islands. 



Stem 15-25 ft. by 4-5 in. diam. Leaves 4-9 ft., pinnules 4-7 in., irregularly 

 toothed. Spadix as in C. urens, but much smaller, with fewer unequal scurfy 

 branches, and much smaller flowers, the males about i in. long. Stamens apiculate. 

 Staminodes 3, tips glandular. Fruit % in. diam., blueish black. Seed globose, 

 testa loose. 



14. ORANXA, Zippel. 



Tall, stout, unarmed palms. Leaves terminal, equally and regularly 

 pinnatisect ; leaflets linear, tips obliquely lobed or torn, strongly uni- 

 costate ; petiole stout, sheath short. Spathes 2, lower short, tubular, 

 compressed ; upper large, clavate, cleft longitudinally. Spadix interfoliar, 

 elongate, shortly peduncled, branches slender fastigiate ; flowers minute, 

 upper or all male, lower or all 3-nate, a fern, between 2 males. Male fl. 

 subsymmetric ; calyx minute, 3-fid ; petals oblong or lanceolate, valvate ; 

 stamens 3 or 6, filaments subulate, anthers erect slits extrorse ; pistillode 

 conic. Fern. fl. larger, ovoid ; calyx membranous, 3-fid ; petals ovate, 

 obtuse, valvate ; staminodes 3 or 6 ; ovary 3-gonous, 3-celled, stigmas 

 recurved ; ovules pendulous. Fruit globose, 1-3-celled, stigmas basilar. 

 Seed globose, testa spongy, adherent to the endocarp ; albumen equable ; 

 embryo dorsal. Species about 5, tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 



1. O.macrocladus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm.iii. 186, 1. 177, f. 1 ; flowers 

 all 3-nate, a fern, between 2 males, more or less distichously arranged, 

 stamens 6. Becc. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 152, 164, t. 13. Macro- 

 cladus sylvicola, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 489 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 

 177, t. 239 A, B. 



MALAY PENINSULA; Malacca, in the Ching forests, Griffith. DISTRIB. Java. 



Trunk 40 ft. ; crown densely leafy, subhemispheric. Leaves 12-15 ft., subovate 

 in outline ; leaflets 2 J-3 ft. by 2 in., white and scurfy beneath ; petiole 5 ft. Spathes 

 and spadix scnrfy. Spadix paniculately branched, nodding, branches slender; 

 flowers white. Fruit H-l^ in. diam., smooth, whitish. 



