THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 667 



Hort. — S2)athascaphe aarenbevgiana, Oerst. Palm. Centramer. in Vidensk. 

 Meddel. Nat. For. Kjobenhav. 1858, 30, and L' Amerique Centrale t. 7, 

 f. 29-37. 



Names. — English : Aremberg's Mountain Palm, Merman's 

 Shaving-brush . 

 German : Aremberg's Bergpalme. 

 French : Chamaedore, Chaniaedoree. 



Description. — Stem about 6 feet high, green, ringed at intervals 

 of 2 inches. Leaves 5-6, erecto-patent, pinnate, Q-1 feet long ; 

 petiole slender, with along cylindric sheath; leaflets about 10-15 

 pair, drooping 1-1 -j feet long, alternate, oblong-lanceolate from 

 a broad, sessile base, graduallj^ narrowed to a very fine point, 

 plicate with about 30 ribs, bright green above, rather pale beneath; 

 petiole nearty terete. 



Inflorescence from below the leaves. Spathes many, sheathing, 

 cylindric, 6-10 inches long, forming a tube 1 foot long, which 

 completely covers the peduncle of the spadix, lightl}^ rolled toge- 

 ther with subacute erect tips, the uppermost far exceeding the 

 spadix, green, or the lower brown. Male spadix subumbellately 

 branched within the spathes, the branches efluse, pendulous, 1 foot 

 long and as thick as the little finger, cylindric, pale, straw-coloured, 

 dense-flowered, terminated by the naked subulate tip. Flowers 

 about ^ inch in diameter. Calyx very shortj 3-toothed. Corolla- 

 lobes rounded, concave, fleshy; stamens 6, filaments very thick, 

 anther-cells divaricate ; pistillode columnar, tip 3-lobed. Female 

 spadix simple, erect, six inches long, rather stouter than the 

 branches of the male spadix. Petals transversely oblong, concave ; 

 staminodes none ; ovary subgiobose, 3-lobed, stigmas 3, minute, 

 sessile, trigonous. 



Habitat. — Guatemala. 



Cultivated in Indian gardens. 



GHRY8ALID0GARPUS, H. Wendl. Bot. Zeitg. (1878), 117. 



(Wendland has chosen this name because the fruit, deprived of 

 its epicarp, has the appearance of a chr5^salis. The name, therefore, 

 does not mean "golden friiit" as suggested in L. H. Bailey's 

 Cyclopasdia of American Horticulture, Vol. 1, 301.) 



Benth. and Hook. Gen. Plant III, II, 882.— Becc. Palme del 

 Madag. p. 3— Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 164, t. 143 {Hyoioh- 

 oo'be). — Drude, Palmae, in Nat. Pflanzenf. p. 64. 



Stem unarmed, cylindric, soboliferous, annulate. Leaves termi- 

 nal, pinnate ; segments very numerous, straight, or slightly falcate, 

 bifid at the apex. Spadix ramose. Flowers dioecious. Male 

 flowers : fertile stamens 6, subequal, filaments subulate, anthers 

 -versatile; rudimentary ovary conical or columnar, more or less 



