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scurfily villous. Leaves 4-9 feet long, spreading, nodding 

 towards the apex, glancescent greenish ; leaflets 4-7 inches long, 

 very obliquely cuneiform erose and toothed, the upper margin 

 acute, regularly and rather obtusely jagged. 



Spathes concealing the whole peduncle, almost boat-shaped^ 

 at length deciduous. Branches of spadix very numerous, about 

 3 foot long, the whole resembling the spadix of 6*. urens, but much 



Fig, 31. — Caryota mitis, Lour., in flower in Victoria Gardens, Bombay. 



(Photog'rapli by Rev. M. Maier, S-J.) 



smaller, with fewer unequal scurfy branches and much smaller 

 flowers. Male flowers very numerous, about ^ inch long, oblong, 

 flesh-coloured, with reddish points; calyx cup-shaped, sepals 

 broad, imbricate ; petals 3, coriaceous, striate, almost distinct ; 



