E. tristis.] EUGEISSONA. 199 
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narrow and woody above; the calyx is membrano-chartaceous, tubular-subey- 
lindrical, slightly broadening above, striately-veined, and 3-toothed, the teeth 
short, acute or subaristate. Stamens inserted about midway of the corolla in tufts 
of 10—12 at the base of each of its divisions; filaments short; subulate ; anthers 
long and narrow; pollen violaceous. Ovary at first, when the stamens are mature, 
situated at the bottom of the undivided part of the corolla, and only a few milli- 
meters long; probably it is not ready for pollination until the anthers have 
disappeared, and it has reached the throat of the corolla or about the level of the 
mouth of the anthodium; at that time the ovary is oblong, very obsoletely trigonous, 
slightly attenuate above, rounded on the top; the style is very short, 2 mm. long, 
very acutely 3-g nous, papillose-stigmatiferous. above on the angles. Fruit 6°5—8 
em. long, 3:5—4 em. through, ovate or ovate-oblong, ‘terete, more or less suddenly 
stoutly and elongately rostrate or narrowing above to a conical or very obtusely- 
trigonous pyramidate point, obtuse at the extreme apex, and terminated by the 
persistent style ; scales squarrose, flat, chestnut-brown, lighter at the edges, glossy. 
the largest 15—2 mm. broad, somewhat prolonged into erose-toothed and (when 
not much rubbed) ciliate fringed apices; the endocarpal cavity is divided into six 
incomplete dissepiments, three of which penetrate very deeply while three are shorter 
and alternate with the others. Seed large, /2°5 cm. long, 2 cm. across, marked by 
six deep narrow longitudinal furrows, into which the dissepiments of the endocarp 
fit, three very deeply, and the others less so; embryo basal; wall of the pericarp 
4 mm. thick at its middle; the endocarp alone is 2 mm. thick. 
Haxirat.—In the forests on the hills about Ching (Malacca) it is very common. 
It is also common in Penang (Gef). I have had specimens from Kolang, in 
Selangor (Fr. Keheding, Herb. Beec.). Ridely gives also the following localities : 
Johor, Gunong Pulai (Ridley). Malacca: Sungei Hudang (Goodenough, 1401). 
Selangor : Kwala Lumpur. Perak; Larut Hills to 25°00 feet alt.; Dindings; Penang 
(Curtis 2218). 
Native name “Bertam.” According to Ridley the leaves are used as those of 
other palms; the stalk of the inflorescence is sometimes carved into ornamental - 
walking sticks; the fruit is eatable (probably the not quite hardened albumen— 
Becc.). i 
Osservations.—It is distinguishable by its caespitose habit and by the short 
stems not producing aerial roots; by the leaflets being bristly only on the mid- 
costa; by the elongate cupressiform  inflorescence ‘having the peduneular part 
spinous; by the flowers 5 cm. long; by the corolla entire in its lower third part; 
by the style being only 2 mm. long and acutely 3-gonous; by the ovate-oblong 
fruit conically long-rostrate and having six incomplete dissepiment ; by the relatively 
large (1:5—2 mm. broad) scales; and by the entire pericarp 4 mm. thick and the 
endocarp alone 2 mm. thick. ! 
Prate 115(A).—Eugeissona tristis Grif.—Fruits entire; vertical section of a 
fruit through the seed; vertical section of a fruit showing the internal dissepi- 
ments without the seed; transverse median section of a fruit ; flower at the time that 
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