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about I inch long, supported by tlic persistent rigid periantli ; scales tra})e- 

 zoid, bluntish, slightly biconvex, with a faint longitudinal furrow, pale 

 brown, with a narrow blackish brown margin ; seeds almost semi-convex, 

 grooved and irregularly wrinkled. 



Hab. In the evergreen tropical forests all over Burma from Chitta- 

 gong, Pegu, and Martaban down to Tenasserim and the Andaman islands. 

 Fr. Apr. May. 



This is the yc^nata of the Burmans. According to Roxburgh, its Dame 

 in Chittagong is ^ora het. 



35. C. Andamanicus, n. sp., Pis. XXVII, A and XXVIII. 



A lofty scandent rattan palm, the sheathed stems as thick as the arm, 

 the canes up to an inch in diameter, all parts almost glabrous ; leaves pin- 

 nate, terminating in a whip-like recurved-thorny tendril, 6 to 8 ft. long, the 

 petioles saccate at base, armed with short blackish thin thorns arising from 

 tubercle-like swellings and intermixed with a few long black spines ; the reddish 

 brown sheaths covered with numerous obliquely placed seriate whorls of 

 capillary black spines, which soon break off and leave only their bases, 

 towards the fugaceously greyish-tomentose base furnished with reflexed 

 broader flat black spines up to nearly an inch long and forming stronger 

 combs ; the rachis more or less depressed 5-gonous, armed beneath with 

 reflexed paired or ternary thorns, towards the petiole also distantly short 

 thorned along the margins ; pinnae solitary, alternate, equidistant, 2 to 2|- 

 ft. long and up to an inch broad, linear, subulate-acuminate, along the mar- 

 gins and on the three principal nerves beneath distantly capillary-spiny, trans- 

 versely veined, uniformly green ; spadix axillary, ample, decompound, 

 nodding; spathes somewhat compressed-tubular, . armed with strong short 

 reflexed solitary to ternary black thorns, otherwise apparently glabrous ; 

 the partial ones unarmed, tubular and slit on one side, rather abruptly acu- 

 minate, glabrous ; spathules tubular-cymbiform, closely imbricated, truncate, 

 glabrous; flowers... ; drupes distichous, numerous, supported by the some- 

 what enlarged perianth, elliptically-ovoid, acuminate, uniformly brown, 

 about ^ inch long ; scales rhomboid, crustaceous, glossy, chestnut-brown- 

 bordered, otherwise greenish, rather flat and without furrow, at apex prolon- 

 ged into a lanceolate pale brown opaque acute ciliolate membranous appen- 

 dage longer than the scale itself ; seed semi-convex, grooved ; albumen equable. 



Hab. Common in the forests all over the Andamans. 



Cliowdali of the Andamanese, 



36. C. TiGEiNus, n. sp , Pis. XXV and XXVI. 



A large scandent rattan, all parts glabrous, the canes up to an inch in 

 thickness ; leaves pinnate, 4 — 8 ft. long, without tendril ; the sheaths fear- 

 fully armed with whorls and half-whorls of broad flat sharp glossy fuscous 

 or black spines (an inch long) variously intermixed with shorter or thinner 



