Phoenix."] CLXTII. PALMED. (Beccari <fe Hook, f.) 427 



Var. a, tiipica, Becc. I.e. 347, 379, t. 44, and ii. f. 22-24; stem short or mode- 

 rately long, IcaHets elongate pale green in usually remote fascicles, fruiting 

 peduncle usually very long, fruit rather long, groove of seed very short. P. 

 humilis, Rot/le I.e. P. Ouseleyana, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 347 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 13!). P. sylvestris ?, Wall. Cat. 8602 B. Outer Himalaya, alt. 1-5000 ft., 

 from Kumaon eastwards. Assam (Jenkins^, the Khasia hills and Central India ; at 

 Chota Nagpore, Gal. Otiseley. Griffith describes P. Ouseleyana, from an Assam 

 specimen, as having the ovoid bulbous stem of P. acaulis, a foot long by 6 in. diam., 

 leaves 2^-3 ft., leaflets very narrow indeed and strongly conduplicate 1 ft. long by 

 (owing to the cotiduplicatiou) \ in. broad, lower spinescent, male spadix 1 ft. rather 

 longer than the spathe, fern, spadix 2 2|- ft. much longer than its spathe with few 

 terminal long flexuose spikes, male fl. in. long (in Sikkim specimen). The seeds 

 examined are from Sikkim, ^- in. long, with a broad groove. 



Var. ft, Lourierii, Becc. I.e. 348, 379, t. 44, ii. f. 16, 17 ; stem short or very short, 

 leaflets subglaucous often approximate mostly falciform, fruiting peduncle elongate, 

 fruit ovoid. P. Loureirii, Kwith Enum. iii. 257. P. pusilla, Lour. Fl. Cocliinch. 

 614 (non. Gcertn.). P. Roebelinii, O'Brien, in Gard. Chron. 1889, ii. 475, 758, 

 fig. 68. Assam, the Khasia Hills, Burma, Munnipore, Cochin China, 



Var. 5, peduncu'ata, Becc. I.e. 379, 387, t.' 44, f. 13-15, 18-21, 25-27; stem 

 short, pinnae subglaucous more or less fascicled, spathe 8 in. long, margin fringed, 

 fruiting peduncle very long, fruit small oblong-ovoid black, groove of seed usually 

 dilating into a canal. P. pedunculrfta,*PaZis Brit. Ind. 139. P. acaulis, Miq. PI. 

 Hoken. Nilg. No. 1213. Western Ghats, from the Concan southwards, ascending to 

 about 6000 ft. on the Nilghiri hills, Wight, &/. Griffith describes this as soboli- 

 ferous, with leaves 4-5 ft., leaflets 1 ft., petiole bearing solitary or fascicled spines, 

 male spadix about a span long, fern, a little longer, with a very long fruiting 

 peduncle, fruit - f in. by %-% in. diam. Mr. J. Steavenson (in, Journ. Agric. 

 Hort. Soc. Madras, N.S. (1866), 337), observes that this is a graceful pale green 

 palm, with the stem never more than a foot or so high. The seeds described above 

 are from Nilghiri specimens and are |-i in. long. Specimens, presumably of this 

 var., sent by Mr. Talbot from N. Canara, have spathes 8 in. long, with a deep brown 

 fringe of matted woolly hairs; fruit black ; seeds i-f in. long groove narrow hardly 

 dilated within. 



** Embryo basilar. 



7. P. paludosa, Sorb. Hort. Seng. 75; Fl. Ind. 789; gregarious, 

 subarboreous, leaflets opposite and alternate bifarious ensit'orm with, filiform 

 tips whitish or farinose beneath, branches of spadix spreading, fruit ovoid 

 black. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 272, 320, t. 136; Kunth Enum. iii. 

 256 ; Wall. Gat. 8603 ; Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 353 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 144, t. 229 A, B ;' Xurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 202 ; For. 

 Fl. ii. 53|K;' Brandi*, For. Fl. 556 ; ' Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb. 419. P. 

 siamensis, M-iq. Palm. Arcliip. Ind. 14. 



Aestuarial shores from BENGAL to BURMA and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS 

 DISTRIB. Siam, Cochin China. 



Trunks 8-25 ft., often inclined, soboliferous, annulate, 12-18 in. diam. - Leaves 

 8-10 ft., leaflets 1-2 ft. ; petiole 3-5 ft., slender, scurfy, with many long spines, 

 sheath fibrous. Male spadix with its peduncle 1^ ft., compressed ; spathe as long, 

 scurfy ; fern, spathe shorter ; male fl. \ in. long ; fem. subglobose with 6 staminodes. 

 Fruit \ in. long, mucronate, black purple when fully ripe. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



8. P. robusta, JToofc./.; trunk 15-20 ft. as thick as a man's body 

 closely clothed and appearing tessellated from the sheaths of the fallen 

 leaves, le.aves about 3 ft. long, leaflets fascicled quadrifarious strict, 



