Corypha.] PALMA. 525 
curved, long spikes arranged in an immense compound panicle with 
large primary spathes which surround the erect very thick peduncle 
arising from the top of the trunk ; calyx broadly 3-toothed, scarcely 
half a line long; petals about a line long, elliptically oblong; 
drupes almost globular, about 1-13 in. in diameter, with 1 or 2 
ae ovaries at the base, greyish olive-coloured, roughish, 1- 
seeded. 
Has.—Frequently seen cultivated in villages all over the southern pro- 
vinces of Burma.—Fl. H.S. ; Fr. the following year. 
Remarxs.—Fans of enormous size are made of its leaves in Ceylon. The 
pith yields a sort of sago. 
2. C. gebanga, Bl—An evergreen palm (7 0—80+60—70+ 
5—7), all parts quite glabrous, the trunk spirally ridged and fur- 
rowed, as if twisted; leaves spirally arranged, ample, 5-10 ft. 
across each way, palmately flabellate, plaited, the strong petiole 
6-12 ft. long, armed with numerous, short, curved, compressed 
spines along the black polished margins ; pinnules united to about 
their middle, linear, 2-cleft at the rather blunt apex; flowers small, 
yellowish or whitish, very shortly pedicelled, arranged in sm 
clusters along the rather short and pretty robust branchings of the 
glabrous, immense, much branched, panicle-like, erect spadix arismg 
from the summit of the trunk; peduncle covered with large pri- 
mary spathes; calyx minute ; petals about a line long ;, drupes 
globular, with 1 or 2 rudimentary ovaries at the base, the size of a 
cherry, smooth, olive-coloured, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Only occasionally seen in Burmese villages,—as, for instance, around 
Tounghoo.—Fl. H.S. ; Fr. the following year. 
‘ Remarxs.—The pith yields a sort of sago. Yields also fibre for fishing- 
nets and ropes. 
the petiole towards the base as thick as an arm, straight and slender, 
from 18-25 ft. long, along the polished margin armed with 
own ; drupes the size of a cherry, globular, with one or two small 
abortive ovaries at their base, smooth, olive-brown, 1-seeded 
LIVISTONA, R. Br. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, sessile or shortly pedicelled. Spadix 
branched, pitacked by loose, ample, deeply-cleft spathes. Sepals 
