﻿1871.] S. Kurz — En Itinera I lo)i of Burmese Fahnst. 200 



The insertion of the stamens would appear to vary soinewliat. In my 

 specimens they are inserted at the base of the ooroHa and free ; filaments 

 not infracted, shorter than the anthers. Drupes obovoid-obloni^, }^-l incli 

 long, apieulate, supported by the coriaceous somewhat enlarged perianth, 

 1-seeded ; scales uniformly brown, with a very narrow whitish minutely 

 arose border, cordate-trapezoid, rounded at apex, almost biconvex from a 

 longitudinal central furrow. 



Hab. Frequent in marshy beds of choungs, in the moister and 

 evergreen tropical forests of Pegu, on sandstone. Fr. C. S. 



Called thanoung by the Burmans. 



This is the only Burmese species which may truly be called arboreous, 

 having no tendrils whatever. All others are furnished with such tendrils, 

 either terminating their leaves (JlagellcB), in which case the inflorescences are 

 axillary (actually they spring from near the base of the opposite leaf) and 

 destitute of spadical tendrils (lorce) ; or the leaves are destitute of them, 

 and the tendrils arise near the apex of the sheatli of the opposite leaf, 

 in which case the inflorescences are leaf-opposed and tendril-bearing (or 

 rather the lorcE grow out into inflorescences). In classification, these several 

 relations have no great value, as an arrangement based upon such characters 

 removes nearly allied species far from each other, as for example G. Anda- 

 mimicus from Q. tigrinus. 



32. C. ERECTUS, Roxh., Fl. Incl., Ill, 774 ; Grijr', in Mad. Calc. Joimi., 

 F", 35. ((7. longisetits, Q-riff. in JMacl. Calc. Journ., F, 3G and Ind. Palms, 

 41, z^. 189, A—B; Mig., Fl. Ind. Bat., Ill, 114; G. macrocarpus, Oriff,, 

 Ind. Palms, 40, t. 180, A,f. 1-2 ; Mart., Palm., 333, t. 170,/ X). 

 Pis. XXIII and XXIV. 



A low erect tufted palm, looking like Zalacea, 12 to 18 feet high, all 

 parts glabrous ; leaves 18 to 12 feet long, pinnate, without tendril, the petiole 

 as also the sheaths armed with seriate greenish or fuscous flat sharp spines 

 up to an inch long, the rachis similarly armed, but the spines gradually 

 becoming fewer in number towards the apex ; pinnae by 5 or fewer alternate- 

 ly approximate, elongate-linear-lanceolate, glossy, green on both sides, many- 

 nerved and transversely veined, acuminate, spinulose-ciliate, li to 2 feet long 

 by 1^ to 2 inches broad, the midrib beneath armed with distant capillary 

 bristles ; spadices elongate, branched, terminating in a whip-like recurved- 

 thorny tendril ; spathes somewhat compressed, linear-tubular, acuminate, 

 armed with half-whorls of flat upwardly and downwardly directed spines up 

 to -I inch long, the partial spathes unarmed, shaped and rupturing like those 

 of Zalacea ; spathules imbricate, cymbiform, almost truncate, glabrescent, 

 fibrous-dissolving at their longer extremity ; flowers distichous ; calyx a 

 little longer than the bract, shortly 3-toothed ; corolla nearly 3 times longer, 

 the tube narrow, nearly as long as the calyx, the lobes linear-oblong ; sta- 



