﻿198 S. K.MYz—Emmieration of Burmese Fahns. [No. 4, 



more or less pendulous panicles. Spathes tubular or flattened out from a 

 tubular base, persistent. Spathules cymbiforna or tubular. Seeds arillate. 

 Albumen equable, but often pitted or erose on the outside. Scandent, rare- 

 ly erect rattan-palms, more or less fearfully armed. 



Species. 



* Drupes sessile, i, e., the perianth more or less spreading 



and adhering to the base of the fruit. Spathules of the 

 spikes much imbricated, the exserted part cymbiform, 

 shorter than broad, more or less truncate. 

 Scales of fruit without a conspicuous appendage. 

 A Pinnae equidistant. No leaf-tendrils. 

 Erect, tufted ; pinnae white beneath. No tendrils whatever, 



...G. arhorescens, Griff. 

 Erect, tufted ; leaves uniformily green, without (but the sheaths and 



spadices with) tendrils, ,,,(7. erectm,l^oyih. 



A A Pinna) fascicled or interruptedly approximate. 

 Young stems, etc., whitish powdery ; leaves without tendrils j pinnae 

 interruptedly fascicled ; drupes globular, straw-coloured, 



... (7. fasciculatus, Eoxb. 

 Glabrous ; leaves tendril-bearing ; pinnae' broad, alternately approxi- 

 mate ; drupes oblong, brown, G. latifolius^ Eoxb. 



O Scales of fruits produced into a fringed appendage 

 as long or longer than the crustaceous scale itself. 

 Leaves tendril-bearing ; inflorescence without tendril ; drupes ^ inch 



long, uniformily brown, • G. Andamanicus, Kurz. 



Leaves without tendrils ; inflorescence with tendrils ; drupes an inch 

 long or somewhat longer, dark and pale brown variegated, G. tigrinus, Kurz. 



* * Drupes seated on the erect indurated thick pedicel-like 



perianth. Spathules usually long-exserted and tubular, 

 rarely cymbiform and imbricate, usually not truncate. 

 O Spathules imbricate, broader than long, truncate. 

 Leaves without tendrils ; pinnas equidistant ; drupes globular, \ inch 



thick, straw-coloured, G. tenuis^ Eoxb. 



Spathules exserted and rather elongate. 

 X Spathes with a short acute limb only. 

 Leaves not tendril-bearing ; pinnae interruptedly-approximate ; drupes 



ellipsoid, straw-coloured, nearlj^ an inch long, G. gracilis, Eoxb. 



Leaves not tendril-bearing ; pinnse equidistant, narrow ; spathes green, 



very thin, compressed-tubular, almost unarmed, G. Helferianus , Kurz. 



Leaves tendril-bearing ; pinnae distant, alternately approximate ; male 

 flowers in recurved small spikelets or fascicles exserted from the spathules, 



...G. paradoxus, Kurz. 



