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Griffith gives the following description of P. ouseleyana 

 " Bulbous stems ovate, imbricated conspicuously with the hard- 

 ened scale-like bases of the petioles, about a foot in length and 

 six inches in diameter. The rete consists of a few rigid fibres. 

 Leaves 2^ or 3 feet long. Pinnules entirely conduplicate, about 1 

 foot long, from the conduplication 2, or 2^ 

 lines broad, subulate-acuminate ; lowermost 

 degenerated into short spines. Male 

 spadices about 1 foot long, the ends of the 

 uppermost spikes rather longer than the 

 bivalved carinate spathe. Female spadices 

 2, or 2^ feet long with a few short flexuose 

 spikes towards the apex, much longer than 

 the spathes, which appear to be about a 

 span long. Peduncle of both spadices 

 much flattened." 



Habitat. — Outer Himalaya, 1-5,000 

 feet, from Kumaon east-wards ; Assam ; 

 Khasia Hills ; Central India ; Chota 

 Nagpur. 



FAR. p. LOURIERII, Becc. Males. III. 348, 

 379, t. 44, II. f. 16, 17; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. 427.— P. loureirii, Kunth Enum. HI. 257— P. 

 pusilla, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 614 (non Gaertn.) — 

 P. roebelinii, O'Brien, in Gard. Chron. (1889) II. 

 475, 758, fig. 68. 



Description. — Stem short, or very short. 

 Leaflets subglaucous, often approximate, 

 mostly falciform. Fruiting peduncle elongate. Fruit ovoid. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Khasia Hills ; Burma ; Munipore ; Oochin- 

 China. 



Fig. 2. 

 Branch with ripe fruits of 

 Phcenix hunalis (Hat. size). 

 (After Beccari ) 



VAR. 8. PEDUNCULATA, Becc. Males. III. 379, 387, t. 44, II. 13-15, 

 18-21, 25-27 ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 427 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 526 ; Talb. Trees Bomb. ed. 2, p. 342. Cooke, Fl. 

 Bomb. Pres. II. 802.— P. pedunculata, Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 139.— P. 

 acaulis, Miq. PI. Hohen. Nilg. n. 1243. 



