522 PALME. [ Calamus. 
long) distichously imbricate-bracted male spikelets ; bracts spread- 
flowers and fruits unknown. 
4p.—Martaban, in the evergreen tropical forests of Palawa zeik (Toukye- 
ghat), east of Tounghoo.—F. Apr.—s.—S5.=Metam 
11. 0. guruba, Mart.—Kyeing-nee.—An evergreen, extensive, 
slender, scandent rattan palm, all parts glabrous, the sheathed stems 
up to an in. thick, the canes thin ; leaves pinnate, without tendru, 
3-4 ft. long, the petiole long and slender, armed with long, recury 
sharp, brown thorns underneath, and with similar smaller ones along 
the margins, intermixed with minute conical thorns; the sheaths 
sending out from the front a retrorse-thorny, long, whip-like tendril, 
green, covered with erect-patent, brown, flat spines of about 4-3 
in. length, crowdedly intermixed with smaller variously long ones ; 
the rachis while young rusty-puberous, armed with short-hooked 
solitary spines ; pinne regularly alternate, $-1 ft. long, linear, bristly 
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spadix slender, arising from the front of the sheaths, terminating 
in a retrorsely-thorny whip-like tendril, glabrous ; spathes & rous, 
a foot long an 
armed along the elongate limb or occasionally recurved-thorny 0? 
the outside just like the connate lower portion ; spathules small, 
almost sessile, with the spreading persistent perianth pedicel-like, 
indurating only at the base ; scales minute, rhomboid, almost flat, 
with a slight longitudinal furrow, straw-coloured, dark brow), 
