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90 : ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN. CALCUTTA. Z. affinis. 
spike- bearing branches ; by the fruit globose-turbinate 1-3-seeded. covered with innu- 
merable, very narrow, subulate, lanceolate scales, partly asgendent, and partly 
recurved ; by the large seeds, about as long as broad, globular or very obsoletely 
angular, and round on the back. 
Griffith did not describe the leaves of this Zalacca, but most probably those 
that he attributes to C.-eollinus Griff. (= C. erectus Roxb.) belong to it as I 
have already pointed out in my monograph of Calamus. 
PLate 54.—Zalaeca secunda (Grif.—&An entire male spadix ; the apex of a leaf 
From Mann's specimens in Herb. Beccari. 
Prate 55.—Zalacca secunda Griff—Female spadix (in two parts) with very 
young fruits; fruits with 3 seeds, one in the upper, the other in the lower part 
of the plate; another fruit with two seeds; two seeds covered by the integument ; 
two seeds divested of the integument ; "E cut longitudinally through the sei 
of the integument and the embryo; seed in transverse section ; intermediate leaflets. 
From Mann's specimens in Herb. Beccari. 
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9. Zaracca AFFINIS Griff in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 9; Palme Brit. Ind. 12, 
p. CLXXVI, A. B. C.; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm iii, 202, pl. ZXXI, f. 
IV; Bécc. Malesia, iii, 67; Hook. f. Fl Brit. Ind. vi, 169; Ridley, 
Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. ii, 169. 
Description —Apparently does not differ much in habit from the other species. 
Leaves about 2°30 m. long in the pinniferous part; the petiole elongate, armed 
with very rigid, flattened, light-coloured, very acuminate, unequal,- spreading or 
deflexed spines, 3—6 cm. long, 3—4 mm. broad at their bases, scattered or approxi- 
mate in small series, some reduced to short sharp prickles; the rhachis is also 
armel below with fascicles of similar large spines in its lower portion, while above 
the spines become geminate or solitary and gradually smaller.  Zeafets are all on 
one plane, but distinctly arranged in groups of 2—4 on each side of the rhachis 
with long vacant spaces interposed ; are oblanceolate-spathulate, diminish below to 
a narrow, distinctly curved or sigmoid base, and are suddenly acuminate above io 
a slightly falcate point, which ends in a filiform setulose tip; they are green on 
both surfaces, slightly paler beneath, concave-convex or subinflated in their upper 
part, have 3 distinet costae, smooth on both surfaces, and several secondary nerves; 
transverse veinlets not very approximate; margins spinulous only near the apex ; 
the intermediate leaflets are 35—40 em. long. and 5—9 em. wide in their upper 
‘third and broadest part; the lower leaflets are smaller, some of the apical ones 
are confluent. The male spadix is formed by several, elongate, flaccid, nodding 
tail-like spike-bearing branches, 45—50 or more (?) em. long, having sessile spikes 
either solitary, or in groups of 2-3 at the axillas of the spathes: the latter ate 
lanceolate acuminate, much longer than their respective spikes (10—18 cm. long), 
exsuccous, papyraceous, more or less split. and lacerated, thinly and fugaciously 
rusty-furfuraceous. Spikes short, 3:5—6 em. long, 12 mm. in diameter, when with 
fully developed flowers of a tomentose appearance, especially after the fall of the 
