96 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. Z. conferta. 
being a hermaphrodite, and the other of being neuter or else a male, both 
resting. in a sort of bi-locular, rather deep, thinly membranous, veined cup, 
clothed on the angles with soft rufous wool. The female flower is ovoid, 
acute, 7—8 mm. long; the calyx almost entirely parted into 3 lanceolate, sub- 
coriaceous, acute parts; the corolla, one-third longer than the calyx, is parted 
nearly to the base into 3 ovate-triangular, acuminate, hard, coriaceous segments ; 
staminodes 6, of which 3 are adnate to the centre of the segments and 3 
alternate with the first three rise from nearly the base of the corolla, all 
with a subulate filament and a distinct (sterile) anther; ovary globose 3-celled ; 
style very short and thick; stigmas elongate, thickly trigonous, subulate, spreading. 
Neuter flowers as long as the female, but narrower, trigonous, and acute; the 
calyx splits into 3 oblong divisions, subcartilaginous and strongly striately-veined ; 
the corolla coriaceous and with a basal solid entire part, divided above into 3 
ovate-lanceolate, thick segments ; stamens 6 with thickish elongate filaments; anthers 
ovoid or oblong-sagittate. The fruits are crowded into an irregular, formless mass, 
sometimes of considerable size; the individual fruits are turbinate, more or less 
deformed by mutual pressure, slightly convex or flattish above, with a short small, 
mucro in the centre; when full grown 3°5—5 cm. long, 3—4'5 em. in diameter in 
their uppermost part, and thence gradually tapering to a rather’ acute base ; scales, 
in about 24 vertical series, shiny, of a dirty yellowish straw colour. when dry, 
rhomboidal, slightly produced into a bluntish appressed point, more or less deeply 
grooved along the middle, especially in their posticous part; the margins finely 
erose-denticulate. Seed solitary, completely filling the pericarpal cavity, and attached 
to its base; its nucleus, is horizontally evolute in the middle of a copious 
fleshy integument, and is considerably broader than high, almost reniform in a 
vertical section, but somewhat varying in outline according to the deformation un- 
dergone by the entire fruit; when normally evolute the nucleus is discoid-suborbi- 
cular and depressel (in one specimen 22 mm. broad. and 10 mm. high}; its. surface, 
when divested of the integument. is chestnut-brown, quite smooth and shiny; it 
has the chalazal forea or apical intrusion of the integument (which is narrow and 
deep in all the species of the Zuzalacca section) broad and shallow, orbicular, 
9 mm. in diameter and 3 mm. deep; the integument is very abundant, pulpy, 
juiey, very acid and firmly adherent to the nucleus; the albumen is homogeneous ; 
the embryo is placed exactly in the centre of the base. The cavity of the peri. 
carp is lined by the very thinly membranous endocarp, which has a silky surface, 
and shows the obsolete markings of the external vascular ramifications of the seed 
integument. The pericarp is, on the average, 3 mm. thick. 
HanrraAT.—The Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Rhio and Bangka. (rifith writes that 
this palm flourishes in very shady wet places in the great forests of Malacca, as 
at Ching and Katawan. Ridley gives the following localities, viz., Singapore—Tanglin, 
Bukit Timah, Bukit Mandai, ete.; Selangor—Kwala Lumpur; Perak; Dindings ; 
Lumut; Rhio. He adds that it is very common in wet woods forming impene- 
trable thickets in water. It occurs also in Bangka at Blinju, if 4 have correctly 
identified some sterile specimens collected there by Grashoff (No. 59 in Buitenzorg 
Herbarium). I have found this species in Borneo, at Kuching in Sarawak (P. B. 
No. 249.) 5 
