THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 



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petioles, near the ground with a dense masse of long rootlets. 

 Leaves 3-5 feet in diameter, palmately fan-shaped, rigidly coria- 

 ceous, many-cleft into lanceolate or linear 2-fid lobes ; segments 

 60-80, shining, folded along the midrib, with spinulose margins; 

 petiole 2-4 feet long, stout, semiterete, edges with hard horny^ 

 spinescent serratures ; ligule short. 



Fig. 27. Young- Palmyra Palm (taken on the sea shore at Mahim, Bombay Island). 



