﻿1874.] S. Kurz — Enumeration of liiirmese Palms. 205 



long by 8 to 5 feet girth, all parts glal)rous ; leaves palmately flabellate, 

 about 6 to 7 feet across, plaited, the petiole up to au inch broad at base, 

 armed with strong sharp falcately curved llattish blackish spines, the lower 

 spines up to half an inch long and longer by 3 to 4 lines broad at base ; the 

 sheaths dividing into netted fibres ; pinna} all (the lateral ones up to half of 

 their length, the central ones higher up) connate in a blade, linear, sharply 

 2-cleft at apex, the ribs compressed, prominent, the veins rather visible and 

 transverse ; flowers small, solitary or by 2 on a nipple-shaped very short and 

 thick pedicel, racemose-spicate, forming a much branched smooth panicle- 

 shaped, 2 to 4 feet long spadix, furnished at the base and along the primary 

 axes with large fuscous quite smooth spathes ; sepals and petals hardly a 

 line long ; drupes elliptically obovoid, f to nearly an inch long, dark blue, 

 smooth, 1-seeded, seated on the short tliick indurated perianth jointed with 

 the nipple- or disk-shaped very short peduncle. 



Hab. Frequent in the evergreen tropical forests of the eastern and 

 southern slopes of the Pegu Yomah ; Upper Tenasserim (Brandis). Fr. 

 March — Apr. 



Called taU'hfan by the Burmese. Very similar to L. Jenhinsiana, Griff., 

 but loftier, and differing chiefly by the smooth (not scurvy) spathes and 

 in shape of fruits. The armature seems more developed in my species. 



COETPHA, L. 



22. C. UMBRACULirEEA, L.,IIort. Cliff., 4S2; Hart., Palm., 2^2, t. 

 lOS and 127, / 2. Boxh., Fl. Ind , II, 177; Miq., Fl. Lid. Bat., Ill, 49, 

 eel. si/n. (C. Talliera, Boxh., Corom. PI., Ill, 51, t. 255-256 and Fl. Ind., 

 II, 174, ; Griff., Ind. Palm., 114, t. 220, F, and F and in Mad. Calc. 

 Journ., V, 317.^ 



Hab. Frequently seen cultivated in villages all over Burma. Fl. H. 

 S. ; Fr. the following year. 



Pae is the Burmese name of this and all the other species of Coryffha. 



23. C. Gebanga Bl. Pimph., II, 59, t. 97-98 and 105. {G. elata, 

 Boxh., Fl. Bid., II, 176; Ilao^t., Palm., 233 ; Griff, in Mad. Calc. Journ., 

 V, 314 and Ind. Palm., 112, f. 220, D.). 



Hab. Only occasionally seen in Burmese villages, as for example 

 around Tounghoo. Fl. H. S. ; Fr. the following year. 



24. C. MACEOPODA, Kicrz in Andam. Bep., ed. 2 , 50. — PI. XV. 



A gigantic stemless palm, 30 to 40 ft. high, all parts glabrous ; leaves 

 very ample, palmately flabellate, from 12 to 20 ft. across, the petiole to- 

 wards the base as tliick as the arm, straight and slender, from 18 to 25 ft. 

 long, along the polished margin armed with strong incurved compressed 

 glossy black spines ; pinnae united to near the middle into a blade, 6 to lO ft. 

 long, linear, 2-lobed and bluntish at apex, the ribs 4-cornered j inflorescence 



