﻿1874.] S. Kurz — Enumeration of Burmese Palms, 190 



X X Lower spathes expanded into a flat elongate 

 limb, tubular at the short base only. 

 Leaves not tendril-bearing ; pinna) narrow, equidistant ; drupes globu- 

 lar, the size of a pea, the scales straw-coloured with blackish-brown borders, 



...C'. Guruha, Ham, 

 DiEMONOEOPS, Bl. — Flowers usually pedicelled, naked or nearly so. 

 Spathes cleft to the base, deciduous, the outer one boat-shaped. Spatlniles 

 incomplete, reduced to bracteoles. Spadix erect, stiflp, never tendril-bearing. 

 Albumen usually ruminate. Scandent rattan-palms, more or less fearfully 

 armed. 



Species. 



* Spathes unarmed or nearly so. 



Leaves not tendril-bearing ; pinnse interruptedly-approximate, white 

 beneath, ,, D. hypoleucus^ Kurz. 



* * Spathes (at least the outermost one) much armed with 



thorns or spines. 



Leaves uniformly green ; sheaths and spathes outside fearfully armed 

 with flat glossy black spines ; drupes globular, the size of a cherry, 



. . .D. grandis, Griff. 



PlectocomiAj Bl. — Flowers in small naked racemes or spikes, hidden 

 by the imbricate distichous secondary spathes, the latter forming long 

 tail-shaped one-sided panicled pendulous catkins. Spathes many, tubular. 

 Drupes retrorsely hispid. Albumen equable. Scandent often lofty rattan- 

 palms, more or less armed. 



Flectocomia onacrostacliya, Kurz. Only species 



ENUMEBATION OF THE SPECIES. 



NiPA, Bumpli. 



1. N. FEUTiCANS, Wurmh.in Verh. Bat. Geiiootsch., I, 349; Lai, 

 in Mem. Mus., V, 297, t. 21-22; Bo.vh , El. Ind„ III, 650; Hart., Palm,, 

 305, t. 108, 171-172; Bl. Rumph. Ill, 76, t. 105, 164—165 ; GriJ",, Not, 

 Monocot., 168, t. 244-247; Mi^., El. Ind. Bat,, III, 150. 



Hab. Common along the estuaries of the rivers, and in tidal forests 

 all along the shores, from Chittngong down to Tenasserim and the Anda- 

 mans. 



Dane of the Burmese. 

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