THE PALMS OF BEITISH INDIA AND CEYLON, 

 INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED 



BY 



E. Blatter, S.J. 



Part. V. 



(With Plates XVIII— XXV, and text-figures 13—19). 



(Continued from iMcje 995 of Volume XX.) 



CORYPHA UMBRACULIFERA, L. Sp. PL 1187 (1753) ; Gaertn., 

 Fruct., I. 18, t. 7 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 177 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 232, t. 

 108, 127 (partim) ; Grifl'. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 319 ; Palms Brit. India 

 116 ; Dalz. and Gibs., Bombay Fl. Suppl. 94; Kurz For. Fl. II, 525; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 549 ; Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 428 ; Trimen, Fl. Ceyl. IV, 

 328 ; Talbot Trees Bomb. ed. 2, p. 343 ; Prain, Bengal PI. 1090 ; Brandis, 

 Ind. Trees 657. — C gebanffa, Kurz For. Fl. II, 525. — C. macropoda, Kurz 

 in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLIII, II. 197 ; For. Fl. II, 525.^ 



Names. — Talipot Palm ; Fan-Palm ; Tala (Ceylon) ; Condapana 

 (Tarn.) ; Sidalum (Tel.) ; Talee (Beng.) ; Coddapana (Mai.). 



Description. — Trunk erect, straight, cylindric, 30-80 feet high, 

 with a diameter of 2-3 feet, annulate. Leaves 8-16 feet in dia- 

 meter, sublunate or circular, palmately pinnatifid, plicate, cleft to 

 about the middle into 80-100 linear-lanceolate, acute or 2-fid lobes ; 

 petiole 5-10 feet long, very stout, the margins armed with short, 

 compressed, dark-coloured spines. Spadix pyramidal, 10-20 feet 

 long, decompound, shortly and stoutly peduncled ; peduncle 

 clothed with tubular spathes which are pierced by the primary 

 branches, branchlets forming pendulous spikes. Calyx broadly 

 3-lobed ; petals oblong, about ji inch long. Ovary suddenly con- 

 tracted into the style. Drupe shortly stipitate, globose, 1^ inch in 

 diameter, with 2 abortive carpels at its base, greyish olive-coloured 



^ Coryioha gebanga Kurz and C. macropoda, Kurz have been referred to C. 

 tnnbraculifera by Prain. 



