hea 
green on both sides, the midrib above and 
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lary spiny, transversely veined, uniformly green ; spadix axillary, 
ample, decompound, nodding ; spathes somewhat compressed-tubu- 
lar, 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 acuminate, glabrous ; 
spathules tubular-cymbiform, closely imbricated, truncate, glab- 
rous; flowers... ; drupes distichous, numerous, supported by the 
opaque, acute, ciliolate, membranous appendage as long as oF onger 
than the scale itself ; seed half-convex, grooved ; albumen homo- 
geneous, 
__Has.—Common in the forests all over the Andaman.—Fr. H.S.—s.—8S.= 
SiS. Metam., ete. 
6. C. tigrinus, Kz.—An evergreen, large, scandent rattan, all 
parts glabrous, the canes up to an inch in thickness ; leaves pinnate, 
4-8 ft. long, without tendril; the sheaths fearfully armed with 
whorls and half-whorls of an inch long, broad, flat, sharp, glossy, fus- 
cous or black spines, variously intermixe with shorter or thimner 
ones, sending out from their front a long similarly armed, er 
Up recurved, connate, thorny whip-like tendril; the petiole and 
lower parts of rachis similarly but less densely armed not only on 
_ the back but also along its margins ; pmne linear, the lower ones 
approximate by 2 or 3, alternate or nearly s0, 14-2 ft. long, 
many-nerved and transversely veined, acuminate, spinulose-ciliate, 
nerves beneath distantly sapillary-spiny, the 2 end-pinne more or 
