LivistonaJ] CLxrri. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 435 



spectabilis, G-riff. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 336 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 130, 

 t. 226 0. Corypha Saribus, Lour. Fl. Cochinchin. i. 212. Saribns cochin- 

 chinensis, Blume Rumph. ii. 49. 



MALACCA, Griffith. PENANG, Lewis. DISTBIB. Cochin China. 



Trunk 50-60 ft., smooth. Leaves about 90-fid, divisions ensiform, central 

 2^-3 ft. j petiole obtusely trigonous, spiny throughout its length, spines stout com- 

 pressed recurved. Spadices 4-5 ft., nodding ; branches 1-1| ft., spreading, much 

 divided ; spathes coriaceous, brown. Flowers sessile. Calyx cupular obtusely 

 3 -toothed to the middle, corolla a little longer. Carpels cohering by their styles. 

 Drupes pale blue ; endocarp subopeous. 



2. Xi. Jenkinsiana, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 334 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 128, t. 226 A, B; leaves 5-6 ft. diam. reniformly flabellate 

 glaucous beneath, divisions very narrow straight shortly obtusely 2-toothed, 

 drupe reniformly globose, f-1 in. diam. 



ASSAM, common, Jenkins. 



Trunk 20-30 ft. by 6-7 in. diam. Leaves 5-6 ft. broad, 70-80-nd ; petiole 

 spiuous throughout its length. Spadices 2-3 ft., branches dichotomous, simple or 

 compound; spathes 2 ft., woody, scurfy. Flowers clustered on small tubercles, 

 small, greenish, ebracteate ; calyx cupular, base truncate intruded; corolla twice as 

 long. Drupes f-1 in. diam., leaden blue. 



3. Zi. speclosa, Kurz in Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xliii. ii. (1874), 196, 

 204, t. 13, 14; For. Fl. ii. 526; leaves 6-7 ft. diam., palmately flabellate 

 divisions very shortly 2-toothed, teeth lanceolate acuminate converging, 

 drupe obovoid f-1 in. long. 



PEGU and TENASSERIM ; Kurz, Brandis. 



Trunk 50-70 ft.- Leaves as broad as long, divisions linear ; petiole with very 

 strong sharp long recurved flattish black spines throughout its length. Spadix 

 2-4 ft., paniculate ; spathes brown, smooth. Flowers solitary or in pairs on small 

 tubercles ; sepals and petals about -^ in. Drupes f in. long, dark blue. 



4. Xi. XLingiana, Becc. Males, iii. 199 ; leaves 15 ft. diam. orbicular, 

 divisions broadly lanceolate rigid 2-fid lobes triangular, drupe globose 

 l-g-2 in. diam. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Perak, Kunstler (3904). 



Trunk 60-100 ft. by 12-18 in. diam. Leaves as broad as long, very coriaceous, 

 divisions 2-2^ in. broad ; petiole 6 ft., armed throughout its length with sigmoidly 

 flexuous very large stout spines like shark's teeth and f in. long. Spadix much 

 branched, branchlets subulate slender. Drupe smooth, peculiarly fleshy, endocarp 

 grumous and tessellated. 



21. TRACHVCARPUS, H. Wendl. 



Tall unarmed palms. Leaves suborbicular or reniform, plicately multi- 

 fid, segments narrow, rachis 0. Spadices many, interfoliar, stoat, branched ; 

 spathes many, sheathing, embracing the peduncle and branches of the 

 spadix, coriaceous, compressed, tomentose ; bracts and bracteoles minute ; 

 flowers small, polygamo-moncecious. Sepals 3, ovate. Petals 3, broadly 

 ovate, valvate. Stamens 6, filaments free ; anthers short, dorsifixed. Carpels 

 3 ; stigmas 3, recurved ; ovules basilar. Drupes 1-3, globose or oblong, 

 style subterminal. Seed erect, ventrally grooved, hilum basilar; albumen 

 equable; embryo dorsal. Species 2 or 3, Himalayan, Chinese and 

 Japanese. 



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