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ones, sending out from their front a long similarly armed wliip-like tendril 

 the thorns of which are connate and those further up recurved ; the 

 petiole and lower parts of rachis similarly but less densely armed not 

 only on the back but also along its margins ; pinnae linear, the lower 

 ones by 2 or 3 approximate, alternate or nearly so, 1^ to 2 ft. long, 

 many-nerved and transversely veined, acuminate, spinulose-ciliate, green 

 on both sides, the midrib above and usually also the lateral nerve*S 

 beneath distantly capillaiy-spiny ; the 2 terminal piuuse more or less 

 connate, deeply 2-cleft ; spadix ample, decompound, nodding, tendril -bearing ; 

 spathes compressed linear-tubular, densely black-spiny ; the partial spathes 

 unarmed, tubular and much lacerating at apex ; spathules tubular-cymbi- 

 form, densely imbricate, truncate, minutely brown scurvy, the one side more 

 produced and often lacerating ; flowers... ; drupes ovoid-oblong, acuminate, 

 about an inch long, black and brown variegated, 1-seeded, supported by the 

 scarcely enlarged perianth ; scales much imbricated, trapezoid, not furrowed 

 on the crustaceous glossy pale brown rather flat back, rather broadly black- 

 bordered and produced into a large pale-brown minutely lacerate membranous 

 rather acute appendage ; seed oblong, broadly and longitudinally ribbed. 



Hab. Common in the evergreen tropical forests from the eastern slopes 

 of the Pegu Yomah and Martabau down to Tenasserim and the Andamans. 

 Fr. H. S. 



Called leme in Burma. The Andamanese name is umdali. 



37. C. TENUIS, Boocl,, Fl. Ind., Ill, 780 ; Griff, in Mad. Calc. Journ., 

 V, 45 and Ind. Palms, 57, t. 193, A—C; Mart., Palm., 335, t. 176, /. II, 

 t. Z, XVIII, f. XXIV and XXV- Mi^., Fl. Ind. Bat, III, 118. 



PI. XXXI, B. 



The drupes of this species are almost ellipsoid -globular, seated on the 

 pedicel-shaped indurated perianth, apiculate, nearly -| inch long, straw- 

 coloured ; scales rhomboid, uniformly straw-coloured with a narrow whitish 

 border, acute, almost flat, with a distinct longitudinal furrow. 



Hab. Chittagong (Roxb., etc.) ; also Pegu (according to Martins). 

 Fl. R. S ; Fr. Apr. 



According to Roxburgh, it is called handhari het in Chittagong ; speci- 

 mens from there in H. B. C. are marked with the native name goloh het. 



38. C. GEACiLis, Boxh., Fl. Ind., Ill, 7-81 ; Grif. in Mad. Calc. 

 Journ., V, 54 and Ind. Palms, 64, t. 196 —PI. XXXI, C. 



Drupes f inch long, elliptical to elliptically globular, apiculate, sup- 

 ported by the indurated stalk-like perianth, straw-coloured ; scales trapezoid, 

 bluntish, straw-coloured with a very narrow brownish margin, slightly 

 biconvex with a very deep longitudinal furrow ; seed irregularly wrinkled. 



Hab. Forests of Chittagong (Roxb.). Fr. March. 



According to Roxburgh, called Mapoori het in Chittagong. 



