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Illustrations. — Plate VI. A. The photograph supplied by Major 

 Gage, shows five old specimens of Phcenix humilis, var. typica. 

 The short stems are conspicuously covered with the spirally 

 arranged bases of the petioles. 



Plate VI. B. The photograph, supplied by Mr. Roscoe Allen, 

 shows Phcenix humilis. var. pedunculated. We selected this pho- 

 tograph (in preference to others, which showed the leaves much 

 better) on account of the long fruiting spadices, which come out 

 distinctly in our picture. 



PHOENIX PALUDOSA, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 75 ; Fl. Ind. III. 789 

 Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 272, 320, t. 136; Kunth Enum. III. 256 

 Wall. Cat. 8603 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat Hist. V. 353 ; Palms Brit. Ind 

 144, t. 229 A. B ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLIII. II. 202 ; For. Fl. II 

 536 ; Brandis, For. Fl. 556 ; Ind. Trees 646 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 419 ; 

 Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 427.— P. siamensis Miq. Palm. Archip. Ind. 14. 



Names. — Hintal, Golpatta ( Beng. ) ; Thinboung ( Burm. ) ; 

 Giruka tati (Tel.) ; Hintala (Sanscr.) ; Dangsa (in Penang). 



Description. — Subarboreous, gregarious, forming elegant im- 

 penetrable tufts. Trunk 8-25 feet high, 3^ inches in diameter, 

 often inclined, soboliferous, annulate at the base, higher up 

 covered with the brown petioles. Leaves 8-10 feet, gracefully 

 spreading. Petiole covered with scurf, brownish-glaucescent, 

 armed in the lower three feet with irregularly spreading hard, 

 brown, triangular, channelled, long spines, sheath fibrous. 

 Leaflets 1-2 feet long, opposite and alternate, bifarious, spreading, 

 then curved downwards, not rigid, 8 lines broad, very acuminate, 

 conduplicate at the base, otherwise flat, whitish or farinose under- 

 neath, the lowest being both the longest and the narrowest. Male 

 spadix with peduncle about li foot long, compressed ; spathe as 

 long, coriaceous, 2-keeled, orange-brownish ; keels with irregular 

 edges ; flowers £ inch long, yellow ; calyx cup-shaped, not as 

 regularly 3-toothed as in P. sylvestris ; petals 3 ; filaments 6, short. 

 Female spadix about 1^ foot long; flowers subglobose, greenish ; 

 calyx as in the male ; petals roundish, concave ; staminodes 6. 

 Carpels 3, free ; styles recurved. Fruiting spadix 3-4 feet long, 

 erect, yellowish orange, with branches at the apex ; spikes of the 



