CorypliaJ] CLXIII. PALMEJS. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 429 



trunk obsoletely annulate, leaves subrotund complicate above the middle 

 subglaucous, basal lobes overlapping, panicle pyramidal, branches axillary 

 to the spatbes spreading, secondary forked, drapes 1^ in. diam. KuntJi 

 Enum. iii. 236 ; Mart. -Nat. Hist. Palm. iii. 231 ; Griff, in Cole. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. v. 317 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 114, t. 220 E, F, Wall. Cat. 8616. 

 Talliera bengalensis Spreng. Syst. ii. 18. T. Tali, Mart, in Roem. & Sch. 

 Syst. vii. 1306. 



BENGAL, Roxburgh. 



Trunk about 30 ft., dark brown, rather rough. Leaves 6 ft. long by 15 broad, 

 90-100-iid, 'lobes deeper and broader than in umbraculifera, the central 3-3^ ft. ; 

 petiole 5-10 ft., not spiraliy arranged, biauricled, spinous. Spadix 20 ft. or more 

 high; primary branches with ascending tips, secondary bifarious, drooping; flowers 

 in close clusters. Calyx obscurely 3-lobed. Ovary suddenly contracted into the 

 style. Drupes 13, dark olive or greenish-yellow. 



4. C. macropoda, Kurz in 'Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xliii. ii. (1874) 

 197, t. 15 ; For. Fl. iii. 525 ; stemless,- leaves palmately nabellate 12-20 ft. 

 diam. divided to the middle 6-10 ft. long, petiole 18-25 ft. slender base as 

 thick as the arm, spines black, drupe the size of a cherry smooth olive 

 brown. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLDS., Kurz. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



5. C. MAETIANA, Secc. mss. ; panicle hemispherical, branchlets pendulous, petiole 

 armed with small strong black spines, calyx broadly 3-lobed, ovary conico-ovoid 

 narrowed into the short style, drupe on a stipes T 4 - in. long. 



BUEMA; Mergui? (Hart. Calcutt.). 



6. C. UMBEACULIFEBA, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 8615; branchlets of panicle about 

 2 ft., as in C. Talliera, calyx distinctly 3-lobed, ovary gradually narrowed into a 

 shore style. Hort. Carey 1828, Wallick. 



18. NANNORHOPSi H. Wendl. 



A gregarious tnfted low-growing glabrous palm, with prostrate branch- 

 ing robust rhizomes or stems. Leaves cuneately nabellate, rigid, plicate, 

 split into curved 2-fid segments; petiole short. Spadix interfoliar, ranch 

 branched; spathes tubular, sheathing, spathels ochreate ; flowers poly- 

 gamous. Calyx tubular, membranous, unequally 3-lobed. Corolla 3- 

 partite, segments valvate. Stamens in herrnaph. fl. 6, in male about 9. 

 Ovary trigonous ; style short, stigma 3-toothed ; ovules basilar. Drupe 

 small, globose or oblong, 1-seeded, style basilar. Seed free, erect, 

 ventrally hollowed; hilum small, albumen equable; embryo dorsal or 

 subbasilar. 



1. N. Ritchieana, H. Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 1879, 148 ; Aitchis. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 140, 141 and 187, t. 26. Chamierops Ritchieana, 

 Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 342 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 136 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 547 ; Gard. C/iron. 1886, 652, fig. 128, 129 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 

 iii. 252. 



SINDH, and the WESTERN PANJAB ; on the Salt Range and at Attok, 

 Aitchison. UISTEIB. Afghanistan. 



Stem or rhizome 8-10 ft. long, as thick as a man's arm, dichotomously branched, 

 covered with old leaf sheaths. Leaves 2-3 ft. long and broad, whitish, split to the 

 middle or lower into rigid segments with often interposed fibres ; petiole 6-12 in. ; 

 margins serrulate. Spadix pyramidal, 2-3 ft., branches ascending and recurved, 

 branch lets slender; flowers in pairs within a membranous spathella, one sessile 



