62 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. P. floribundus, 
OssERvATIONS.—Apparently closely related to P. paradoxus, but with leaflets very 
distinctly grouped (whereas in P. paradoxus they are simply unequidistant) and with 
flowers .at least.one-third larger, narrower and more acute than in P. paradoxus. 
Both species have the leaflets sprinkled underneath with pale dots. One of the 
specimens collected by Lecomte and Finet has a leaf from an adult plant terminated ' 
by a long clawed cirrus. Another leaf is not cirriferous, and the  rhachis 
is armed with 3—5-nate, straight, deflexed spines ; the lower leaflets are 50—55 
em. long. very long-aeuminate, have the margins distinctly thickened and ciliate 
with pale spines, often conspicuous, and in pairs, oecasionally 5—6 mm. long. 
I have referred this Palm to the genus Plectocomiopsis, but like P. paradoxus 
it shows marked affinities with Myrialepis, and its generic position can be- fixed 
with certainty only when the female flowers and fruit shall be known. 
Prate 39.—Plectocomiopsis floribundus Bece.—The end of an inflorescence 
(partial ?) and intermediate portion of a leaf. From Gourgaud’s specimen in the 
Paris Herbarium. 
