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THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON 

 INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED. 



BY 



E. Blatter, S. J. 



Paet III. 



(With Plates VI, VII, VIII, IX, X & XI and Map B.) 



(Continued from page 860 of this Volume.) 



PHCENIX HUMILIS, Royle, 111. 394, 397, 399 ; Becc. Males. Ill, 347 

 373; Hooker Fl. Brit., Ind. VI. 426; Brandis Ind. Trees 645. 



Description. — Stems short tufted (and bulbiform ? ), rarely 



elongate. Leaves sub-glaucous ; 

 leaflets scattered interruptedly 

 fascicled. Fruiting spadix long- 

 peduncled ; branches spreading, 

 rather slender. Fruit oblong, 

 pericarp thin. 



Habitat. — Hilly districts of 

 India, from Kumaon eastwards to 

 Burma, and southwards to Mala- 

 bar. — China, Cochin-China. 



This species requires further 

 examination. In the meantime 

 we give the Indian varieties 

 referred to as P. humilis by 

 Beccari, and follow Hooker in 

 treating Beccari's variety y. 

 robusta, as a separate species. 



Fig. i. 



Phcnnix humilis. 

 1 and 2 male flowers i x 4). 

 3. Branch of female spadix with 



flowers not yet quite open (nat. 



size). (After Beccari). 



Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 347 



VAR. a . TYPICA, Becc. Males. III. 

 347, 379, t. 44, and II. f. 22-24 ; Hook. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 427— P. humilis, 

 Royle, 1. c. — P. ouseleyana, Griff, in 

 Palms. Brit. Ind. 139. 

 Names.— Thakal (Kumaon) ; Khajur (Hind.J. 

 Description. — Stem short or moderately long ; leaflets elongate. 

 pale green, in usually remote fascicles. Fruiting peduncle usually 

 very long, fruit rather long, groove of seed very short. 



