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Habitat. — Sikkim, deep hot valleys near the Teesta river; Assam; 

 Khasia hills ; Oachar, woody mountainous country to the east of 

 and near Chitagong. Burma, Upper and Lower, indamp ravines 

 of the Pegu Yoma; Andaman Islands. — Introduced into gardens. 



Flowees — In the cold season ; fruiting in the hot season. 



Uses. — The leaves, according to Jenkins, are used for the same 

 purposes as those of the Toko-pat, but are much coarser, and only 

 made use of by the lower orders. The demand for them is very 

 great, scarcely a ploughman, cow-keeper or cooly, but has his hat 

 made of chattah-pat. 



Illustration. — Plate XXIII shows a fine specimen of Licuala 

 peltata. From between the round peltate leaves rise 6 simply 

 branched spadices. The branches resemble large catkins on the 

 photograph. We have to thank Mr. H. F. Macmillan who took 

 the photograph in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya. 



LICUALA LONGIPES, Grifi". in Oalc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 330 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 125, t. 224, A and B; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. 204; 

 For. Fl. II. 528 ; Brandis, Indian Trees 656. 



Name. — Plass Bhatto (Malay.) 



Description, — Stem very short. Leaves peltate, orbicular, ij-i 

 feet in diameter, dark green. Segments about 20, the lateral ones 

 being the narrowest, obliquely cut off, unequally 3— i lobed, lobes 

 irregularly denticulate the terminal one cuneate, 5 inches broad, 

 truncate, 11-keeled above, with as many short, truncate, broad, 

 bifid, denticulate lobes as there are keels; intermediate ones 

 narrower, generally 3-keeled, otherwise similar; the upper margins 

 of all blackish brown. Petioles stout, 4-5 feet long, trigonous, 

 deeply channelled above, armed (except the upper third) along 

 the two inner angles with stout, horny, conical, tooth-shaped 

 prickles. The rete consists of stout leathery fibres. Spadix 

 stout, much branched, much shorter than the petioles, li-3 feet 

 long, erect, undulate, flexuose. Flowers numerous, sessile, green, 

 sparsel}'' and sometimes densely pubescent. Calyx subcylindrical, 

 3-toothed, teeth bifid. Corolla almost twice as long as the calyx, 

 divided to a little below the middle into 3 broad, cordate, lanceolate 

 segments. Filaments short, setiform. Anthers cordato-ovate, 



