1096 BENGAL PLANTS. (Phenix. 
cup. Carpels 3, free; ovules erect; stigmas sessile, uncinate. 
Fruit oblong, terete, 1-seeded, with a terminal stigma, a fleshy 
pericarp, and a membranous endocarp. Seed oblong, mre 
coved; albumen equable or subruminate; embryo dorsal 
subbasilar. 
Stems solitary; embryo of the seed ventral; inland species :— 
tems elongated, clothed with persistent bases of leaf-stalks :— 
Stems slender, 25-50 feet high ; leaves 10-15 feet long; ripe fruits 
orange-yellow ..sylvestris. 
Stem very stout, 15-20 feet high ; leaves 3-5 feet long; iit fruits 
brown busta. 
Stems short o panes 
Stems ae 8-95. test ie embryo of seed basilar ; species con- 
fined to muddy maritime swam ..paludosa. 
2272. PHa:NIX SYLVESTRIS are ; F. 1. iii. 787; F. B. I. vi. 420; 
EOD.P 
588. 
General cultivated, sometimes subspontaneous. 
aceful tree, when not cut for tapping. Vernac. 
Khaj 
2278. eaeindte Ropusta Hook. f.; F. B. I. vi. 427. 
hota Nagpur, Parasriath: 
out-stemmed, thick-set tree. 
2274. cartel acauuts Buch.; F. I. iii. 783; F. B. I. vi. 426; 
E. D. P. 551 
Behar; Chota Nagpur, eastern edge of the plateau, very 
common. 
A stemless, dwarf palm. Hind. Pind Khajur. 
9275. Puamnrix panuposa Roxb.; F. I. iii. 789; F. B. I. vi. 4275 
E. D. P. 582. 
Sundribuns. 
A gregarious, soboliferous palm. Beng. Hital. 
991. Pinanga Bi. 
Slender palms, with erect, annulate stems; leaves pinnatisect, 
with the upper sy a confluent. Flowers monecious, andro- 
gynous, ternate, a female between two males, the clusters in 2 oF 
4 or 6 series, on infrafoliar spadices; spathe solitary. ¢ Flowers 
men. 
anthers subsessile, basifixed, erect. ¢ Flowers much smaller 
