162 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. Metroxylon. 
Fruit rather large, flat and broad above, slightly attenuate at the base, 
4 cm. long, 33 mm. through. 
2g. M. Rumphii var. fiyriverense Becc— 
New Guinea, Fly River. 
II. Spikes of glabrous and squarrose appearance and having the pedicellar 
part flattened, and with obtuse quite glabrous margins. 
3. M. squarrosum Bocc—-Fast Ceram.* 
B—CoELococcus.— Fruit, clothed with scales in 24—29 vertical series. 
* Fruit more or less attenuate to the base, obpyriform or turbinate; the 
seed placed in its upper and broader part, the lower and narrower 
part being spongy inside. 
Fruit 10—12 cm. long, 7—9 em. across in its upper part. Scales in 24 vertical 
series. Leaflets glaucous beneath. 
4. M. Warburgii Heim.—New Hebrides. 
Fruit very small, obpyriform, attenuate to a narrow base, 33 mm. long, 25 
mm. broad in its upper part. Scales in 24 vertical series. 
5. M. upoluense Becc—Upolu in Samoa. 
** Fruit globular or ovoid. 
Fruit round at the base, and broadly conical above, 5°5—6°5 cm. long 
45—7 cm. broad. 
6. M. vitliense Benth. et Hook.—Fiji Islands. 
*** Fruit globose or more or less depressed. 
f Fruit very large, 8 cm. in diam. anl more, flattish on the top, and not 
excavate at the base; having short bluntish tips. 
7. M. amicarum Becc—Caroline Islands. 
(a) Flowers 8—8°5 mm. long, 3:5—4 mm. broad. Fruit slightly broader 
than high, 8—9 cm. in diam. 
M. amicarum-——; ^. commune Becc. 
(b) Flowers 12 mm. long, 5—6 mm. broad. Fruit 11—13 em. in diam. 
M. amicarum var. Maius Bece. 
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Referable to this species are the varieties received from Buitenzorg with the following native 
name and notes: 
a. Kilwoi.—No spines; petioles intensely green. 
b. Killasi.—No spines; petioles of a gray colour. 
€. Kilkarua.—From base to top (the trunk? leaf-bases ?) covered with long and thick spines. The 
petioles intensely green. 
d. Kilatan o Kilatankirkie.—Spines short and thick, petioles long. 
Kilkour.—Frow base to top (the trunk ?—leaf-bases ?) covered with moderately large spines 
Trunk and branches (petioles ?) white. 
f. Kiltafuk.—VFrom base to top (the trunk ?—léaf-bases ?) coveréde with slender and moderately long 
spines ; petioles gree 
g- Kilkikir,—The 
trunk (leaf-bases ?) without spines; the . petioles covered with dense tufts of 
short spines. 
