920 JOURNAL, BOMBAY XATUBAL HIST. SOCIETY, rol. XXI. 



Mr. G. A. Gammie, to whose kindness we owe the photographs 

 reproduced on this and the next plate, informs us, that there is 

 only one specimen of the Indian Doum Palm groAving at Bassein 

 and that this tree supplied part of the material on which Dr. 

 Beccari founded his Hyphcene indica. 



Plate XXXIV shows a female tree growing at Baroda. 



INTEODUCED SPECIES. 



HYPR.Ii:XE THEBAICA, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 226 (ed.l), 

 '2-2i) (ed. 2) excl. syn. nonnuUis, tab. 131, 133, 133 (excl. — ic. spadicis mas- 

 •culse in tab. 132) ; Becc. in Agricolt. Colon. (1908) II, fasc. III.- — Corypha 

 thebaica; Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, (1763) IQol .— Cucif era thebaica, Delile, Descr. 

 ^el'Egypte II, 67, t. 1, 2 ; Diet, d' Hist. Nat. XIII (1819), A72.—Douvm 

 thebaica, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. II, 519.^ — Ryphcene cucifera, Pers. Ench. II, 

 22i5.— C7iamce)iphes thebaica, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. II (1891) 728. 



Names. — Egyptian Doum Palm, Gingerbread Tree ; Mama (in 

 Egypt). 



Description. — Stem terete, 10-30 feet high, about 1 foot in dia- 

 meter, simple or more frequently dichotomously branched. Leaves 

 20-80 in a terminal crown on each branch ; petiole sheathing 

 at the base, triangular below, plano-convex upwards, spiny on the 

 margins, with rusty tomentum ; lamina suborbicular ; lobes 20 or 

 more, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1^ feet long, 1 inch wide ; 

 primary nerves thick, concave above, secondary numerous. 



Male spadix about 4 feet long, 1-2 inches thick at the base, at 

 first erect, afterwards patent ; spathes nearly cylindrical ; flower- 

 bearing branches 6-7 inches long, 3-2 at the end of branches 3-4 

 inches long ; bracteoles ^ line long. Flowers in pairs, shortly pedi- 

 cellate. Calj^x divided down to the base into 3 narrow, acute, yel- 

 low sepals, contracted below. Corolla stipitate with the segments 

 imbricate, rotundate and cucullate at the apex, thin and not strong- 

 ly striate-nervose. Stamens 6, rarely 7 ; filaments subulate from 

 a thickened base ; anthers linear, slightly sagittate, nearly basifixed. 

 Rudiment of ovary consisting of 1-3 small and short unequal 

 points. 



