﻿1874.] S. Kurz — JEnumeration of BurmenG Palms. 215 



Stem ? leaves rather rigid, the rachis armed ^vith copious solitary and 

 combined recurved thorns intermixed with smaller ones ; pinna3 \ ft. long, 

 1 inch broad, approximate, equidistant, linear-lanceolate, glossy, marginate 

 along the 3 nerves above and almost bristly along the border ; female spa- 

 dix about 2 — 3 ft. long, terminating in a tendril, decompound ; spathes pro- 

 duced into a membranous limb 2 in. long, at base beset with small retrorse 

 black thorns rather thick at apex ; flowers by pairs (a male and a fertile 

 one) ; calyx tubular, 3-toothed ; corolla lobes ovate, acute ; drupes (unri])e) 

 globular, acute ; scales chestnut-brown on the middle, with a broad pale- 

 coloured fringed margin {JSIart. I. c). 



Hab. Tenasserim, Tavoy (Wall. Cat 8609). 



Again a species which I cannot identify from the description only. It 

 seems to belong in the affinity of C. tigrimi^s, etc. with fringed-appenda<'ed 

 scales, but has elongate spathules. 



4. C. MELANACANTHUS, Mart., Falm., 333, t. 116, /. XIII, t. Z, 

 XXII, f. X; Walp., An7i., Ill, 484.— PL XX, B. 



Scandent, the thorns all antrorse, glossy black (those of the sheaths 

 almost whorled straight ?) those on the rachis almost solitary, scattered and 

 short (1-3 lin. long), recurved ; pinnae equidistant, linear, about 12 — 13 in. 

 the upper ones ^ ft. long by 5 — 6 lin. broad, long acuminate, along the 

 borders, on the midrib beneath and above and along the two lateral nerves 

 beneath black-bristled ; female spadix decompound, terminating in slender 

 retrorsely aculeate tendrils ; spathes rather terete, shortly truncate, the lower 

 ones with scattered retrorse thorns, the upper ones almost unarmed ; drupes 

 ellipsoid, acute, 10 lin. long by 5 lin. thick ; pale yellowish, sometimes with 

 a brown-coloured thin margin {Mart. I. c). 



Hab. Tenasserim, Chappedong (Wall. Cat. 8608). 

 A species unknown to me. 



5. C. HUMiLis, Boxh., Fl. Ind., Ill, 773. 



Shrubby ; not scandent nor flagelliferous. Leaves lanceolar, smooth, 

 many-nerved. Spines few, but long and strong {Boxh. I. c). 

 Hab. Chittagong (Roxb.). 



6. C. POLYGAMUS, Boxh., Fl. Ind., Ill, 780; Grif, in Mad Gale. 

 Journ., V, 48, in adnot. 



A most extensive scandent rambler, canes the thickness of a common 

 walking-stick ; spines almost whorled ; sheaths flagelliferous ; lower pinnae 

 in remote fascicles of 3 or 4, the upper ones single and alternate or opposite, 

 all linear with a few bristles on the margins and nerves underneath ; male 

 and hermaphrodite flowers on the same supra-decompound spadix {Boxh., 

 I. c,). 



Hab. Chittagong (Roxb.). 



Hoodooui het of the natives, according to Roxburgh, 

 28 



