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mens in males free, the filaments broad, not infracted, shorter than the 

 anther ; drupes more than an inch long, ovoid-oblong, apiculate, glossy, 

 brown, 1-seeded ; scales imbricate, cordate-trapezoid, fuscous, towards the 

 base paler coloured, almost biconvex with a rather broad longitudinal cen- 

 tral furrow, bluntish, the margins not bordered and almost entire ; seed 

 oblong, somewhat compressed, the albumen foraminate-erose, surrounded by 

 a resinous crust. 



Hab. Evergreen tropical forests of Chittagong and Pegu. Fr. C. S. 



According to Roxburgh, the species is called in Chittagong Simgotta, 

 but specimens collected there by Dr. Thomson bear the name rong — the 

 name by which it goes in Sikkim also. The Burmese call it theing. 



33. C. FASCicuLATUS, Uoocl)., Fl. Ltd., Ill, 779 ; Griff, in Mad. Calc. 

 Journ., V, 52 and Ind. Palms, 62, t. 195, A — B [excl. inji. in B) and 1. 190, 

 A,f. 2 ; Miq., PI. Ind. Bat., Ill, 127 ; Mart., Palm., 210 and 238, t. 116, 



/. IV and FZ— PI. XXVII, B. 



Hab. Frequent in the mixed deciduous forests, especially in the lower 

 ones, all over Burma, from Ava and Chittagong down to Tenasserim and the 

 Andamans. Fl. Sept. Octob. ; Fr. Apr. May. 



Called Kane ga in Burma. 



It often happens that the fruits in this species become monstrous, as 

 shewn in the plate. 



34. C. LATiPOLius, Boxl., Fl. Ind., Ill, 775 ; Griff, in Macl. Calp. 

 Journ., V, 60 and Ind. Palms, 68, t. 198. (0. palustris. Griff, in Macl. 

 Calc. Journ., V, 61 and Ind. Palms, 72, t. 199 ? Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., Ill, 

 131?).— PI. XXXI, A. 



An extensive scandent rattan palm, all parts glabrous, the. sheathed 

 stems 2 to 3 in. diameter, the canes up to an inch thick ; leaves 8 to 12 

 feet long, pinnate, terminating in a long whip-like retrorse-thorned tendril, 

 the short petiole armed with a double or single row of short more or less 

 sharp spines hollowed-out at inner base, saccate at base (the sac unarmed or 

 sparingly and shortly prickly), the sheaths quite green, beset with a few 

 excavate thorn-like protuberances or seriate large excavate flat sharp spines 

 or occasionally quite or nearly quite unarmed (on the same plant), sometimes 

 the spines short flat and black ; the rachis armed with fascicled or simple 

 upwardly recurved strong thorns ; pinnae alternate, broad-lanceolate, the me- 

 dian ones alternately approximate by twos, 1 to 2 ft. long by 3 to 5 in. 

 broad, towards the shortly acuminate apex bristly ciliate, many-nerved and 

 transversely veined, uniformly green ; spadix bifariously decompound, 

 axillary, elongate, drooping • spathes tubular, with an obliquely truncate 

 acuminate limb, glabrous, sparingly recurved-thorny, the partial spathes 

 conform, but not so small and less armed ; spathules cymbiform, the outer 

 margin acuminate-produced, glabrous ; male flowers greenish-yellow ; ovary- 

 rudiment small, 3-lobed j drupes ellipsoid-oblong, rather glossy, apiculate, 



