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into netted fibres ; leaflets all (the lateral ones up to half of then- 

 length, the central ones higher up) connate in a blade, linear, 

 sharply 2-cleft at the apex, the ribs compressed, prominent, the 

 veins rather visible and transverse. Flowers small, solitary, or by 

 2 on a nipple-like, very short and thick pedicel, racemose-spicate. 

 forming a much-branched, smooth, panicle-shaped, 2-4 feet long 

 spadix, furnished at the base and along the primary axis with 

 large, fuscous, quite smooth spathes. Sepals and petals hardly 1 

 line long. Drupes elliptically obovoid, f to nearly 1 inch long, 

 dark blue, smooth, 1 -seeded, seated on the short, thick, indurated 

 perianth, jointed with the nipple-or disk-shaped, very short pe- 

 duncle. 



Habitat. — Frequent in the evergreen tropical forests of the 

 eastern and southern slopes of the Pegu Yoma ; Chittagong ; Upper 

 Tenasserim. 



Flowers. — In March and April. 



* * INTRODUCED SPECIES. 



LIVISTONA CHINENSIS, R. Br. Fl. Nov. Holl. 2(i8 ; Mart. Hist. 

 Nat. Palm. Ill, 240 ; Drude Palmae in Nat. Fflanzenf. II, SSS.—Latama 

 Chinensis, Jacq. Frag. Bot. 16, t. ii, fig. 1. — Latania borbonica, Lami. 

 Encycl. Ill, 411; Willd. Spec. PI. IV, 878; Spreng. Syst. Veg. II, 

 623. — Livistona Mauritiana, Wall, in litt. 1831. — Saribus, Bl. Rumphia 

 II, 49. 



Name. — Chinese Livistona. 



Description. — Stem 20-30 feet high, stout, obscurely annulate. 

 Crown round, leaves reniformly flabellate, 4-6 feet in diameter, 

 much plicated and also conduplicate along the centre ; segments 

 50-60, and more, linear-lanceolate, acuminate ; the lateral ones 

 much the narrowest, 2 feet, or 2 feet 2 inches long, their divisions 

 about 1 foot long. Petiole 6 feet long, 6 inches broad, triangular, 

 plane above or slightly concave towards the margins, armed from 

 the base to about the middle with compressed-subulate, horny, 

 brown spines ; at the base a netM^ork of brown fibres. Ligule 

 ovate-trigonous, concave, acute, green. Spadix paniculate-ramose. 



