﻿206 S. Kurz — Enumeration of Burmese Palms. [No. 4, 



and flowers unknown ; drupes the size of a cherry, glohular, with one or 

 two vsmall abortive ovaries at their base, smooth, olive-brown, 1-seeded. 



Hab. In the bamboo jungles of Termoklee island, western side of 

 South Andaman, on chloritic rocks. 



Called dondali bv the Andamanese. I have not seen the palm in flower, 

 but judge it to be stemless from having failed to detect any indication of 

 a stem in the numerous full-grown specimens I met with accompanied by 

 seedling-plants, which latter had their roots so deeply seated in the rocky 

 ground that I did not reach them after digging to a depth of more than 2 feet. 



KORTHALSIA, Bl. 



25. K. SCAPniGERA, Hart. Palm., 211. — {Oalamosagus scapliiger, 

 Griff., Ind, Palm., 30, t. 184 A. young plant ; Calamosagus ivallichicEfoUus, 

 Grff. in Macl. Calc. Journ., V, 24 and Ind. Palm., 29, t, 184 sul nom. G. 

 Tiarincefolius .) 



Pis. XX, A, and XXI. 



A large scandent rattan palm, the canes up to half an inch in dia- 

 meter, the young leaves beneath fugaceously white -tomentose ; leaves 

 pinnate, 2 to 4 ft. long, the rachis sparingly armed with short simple sharp 

 retrorse spines and terminating in a long recurved-thorny tendril, the 

 petiole -I to 2 ft. long, irregularly beset with thin sharp rather straight 

 spines 2 to 4 lin. long, the sheaths minutely brown-scurvy (in young plants 

 sparingly prickly) dissolving along their margins into fibres embracing the 

 stem ; pinnse at base contracted into a compressed petiolule, alternately some- 

 what approximated, plaited, broadly rhomboid-ovate, the upper ones cuneate- 

 rhomboid, acuminate, from about the middle irregularlj^ and sharply erose- 

 tocthed (the teeth formed by the more or less subulate-excurrent veinlets), 

 many-nerved, 4 to 7 in. long, the terminal segment much broader ; spa- 

 dices long and pendulous^ terminal, the tubular spathes (in fruit) smooth, 

 brown ; catkins very compact and terete, on a short sheathed peduncle, 

 densely tawny tomentose, 3 to 4 in. long, about 4 lin. thick ; bracts very 

 broad, rounded or almost acute, smooth, a little longer than the densely 

 villous bracteoles ; female calyx rigid, more than ^ lin. long, fibrous -cili ate ; 

 corolla nearly 2 lin. long, very rigid-coriaceous, deeply 3-cleft, the tube 

 very short ; drupes obovoid, mucronate, |- inch long, retrorsely imbricate- 

 scaled, 1-seeded ; scales rigid, trapezoid-ovate, longitudinally impressed, 

 greenish, towards the apex brownish, bordered by a pale brown broadly 

 lacerate narrow bluntish membrane. 



Hab. Common all over the Andamans, especially in the evergreen 

 tropical forests. Fr. H. S. 



Called hordah by the aborigines. On the Andamans occurs another 

 species of the habit of the preceding but with the sheaths densely 



