524 PALME. [ Calamus. 
inch long or longer spines towards the mouth, in front sending out 
ae 4 
spathes unarmed or occasionally with a minute prickle on the mid- 
rib, smooth, lanceolate-oblong, slit almost to the base; spathules 
shortly tubular with an acuminate limb, small and distant ; female 
flowers minute, about a line long, distichous ; calyx shortly 3-lobed, 
lin. lone ; corolla twice as long with a short tube, the lobes 
linear-lanceolate, acute ; male flowers and fruits unknown. 
Has.—Tenasserim, Thoungyeen.—Fl. March. 
NV. B.—Several other species of rattan occur in Burma and the 
adjacent islands, but cannot be taken up here on account of the 
incompleteness of the material at my disposal. 
CORYPHA, L. 
connate into a 8-toothed column. Drupe usually solitary with the 
abortive ones at the base, rarely one or the other of the ovaries 
equally developed, 1-seeded, the mesocarp fleshy-fibrous. Albumen 
homogeneous, horny.—Lofty simple-stemmed palms, flowering but 
once and then dying. Leaves large, palmately flabellate, the 
petiole spiny-armed. Spadix an ample, erect, terminal panicle, with 
numerous primary and secondary spathes. Flowers small, cluster- 
, sessile or nearly so. 
Drupes the si - : 
she cai oe pases Kat ge o ew ee CO, umbraculifers. 
* Drupes the size of a cherry. 
Trunk spirally grooved, 60-70 ft. long; petioles 6-12 ft.long C. gebanga. 
Trunk . long ; petioles 18-25 ft. long : : : . C. macropoda- 
1. C. umbraculifera, L.—Pe-pen.—An evergreen palm (30—80 
420—60+4—7), all parts quite glabrous, the trunk straight, 
annular or even (not spirally grooved) ; leaves ample, 8-12 ft. across 
more than way up, linear-lanceolate, acute; flowers small, 
greenish-white, almost pedicelled, clustered, forming rather slender, 
