THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 985 



obovate-oblong, tube clavate, triquetral, twice the length of the 

 calyx, limb trifid ; three times shorter than the tube, segment 

 ovate, acute, subconnivent ; filaments 6, filiform-triquetral, shorter 

 than the corolla, adnate to the tube, alternately somewhat thicker 

 and more detached. Fig. 9 and 10. 



Habitat. — S. China and Loochoo, in the Happy Valley Woods. 



Uses. — This palm yields excellent walking-sticks, called 

 - ground-rattans." 



Cultivation in Europe. — The Dwarf Ground-Rattan is adapted 

 to room-cultivation and may be kept at a great distance from the 

 window. Of this species there exist varieties with white and 

 golden-yellow leaves. 



Illustration. — Plate XIII A shows a characteristic group 

 of Dwarf Ground-Rattans as grown in the Royal Botanic Gardens 

 of Peradeniya in Ceylon. Mr. H. F. Macmillan has been kind 

 enough to take the photograph himself. 



RHAPIS HUMILIS, Blme. Eumphia, II, 54.— Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 

 Ill, 254.— Walp. Ann. V, 818.— Wright J. Linn. Soc. vol. 36, p. 169. R. 

 sierotsik, Sieb. — Chamcerops exceha, var. humilior, Thbg. Fl. Jap. 130. 



Name. — Low Ground-Rattan. 



Description.— Leaves cut into from 7-10 spreading segments ; 

 petioles unarmed. Similar in general aspect to R. fiabelliformis. 



Habitat. — China (cultivated in Japan). 



Cultivation in Europe. — The Low Ground-Rattan is well 

 adapted to room-cultivation. There exist beautiful garden- 

 varieties with white and golden yellow leaves. 



Illustration. — The photograph on Plate XII A, taken by 

 the Rev. M. Maier, S.J., shows several specimens of the Low 

 Ground-Rattan growing in the Victoria Gardens of Bombay. The 

 position of the leaves and the greater number of leaf-segments at 

 once distinguish this species from the Dwarf Ground-Rattan on 

 Plate XIII A. The plants are about 5 feet high. 



COGGOTHBINAX, Sargent, Bot. Gazette, XXVII, 87, (1899). 

 (The name was given in allusion to the berry-like fruit.) 



