526 PALME. [ Livistona. 
the base up to an inch broad, armed with strong, sharp, falcately 
curved, flattish, blackish spines, the lower spines up to $ an in. 
long and longer by 3-4 lines broad at base, the sheaths dividing 
into netted fibres; pinne all (the lateral ones up to half of their 
length, the central ones higher up) connate in a blade, linear, 
sharply 2-cleft at apex, the ribs compressed, prominent, the veins 
rather visible and transverse ; flowers small, solitary or by 2 ona 
nipple-like very short and thick pedicel, racemose-spicate, forming 
quite smooth spathes ; sepals and petals hardly a line long ; drupes 
elliptically obovoid, § to nearly an in. long, dark blue, smooth, 
1-seeded, seated on the short, thick, indurated perianth jointed with 
the nipple- or disk-shaped very short peduncle. 
Has.—Frequent in the evergreen tropical forests of the eastern and southern 
gore of Se Fees Yomah; Upper Tenasserim (Brandis).—Fr. March-Apr.— 
s. = SiS, 
CHAMAROPS, L. 
Flowers polygamously dioecious or monoecious, sessile, bracted. 
Spadix surrounded by 2-4 spathes. Male and hermaphrodite 
Large or s : 
with palmately lobed leaves, all the pinne high up connate, forming 
a many-lobed plaited blade with the segments Q-lobed at the apexs 
the petioles more or less spiny-toothed. Spadix either simply oF 
compoundly branched, Spathes coriaceous, widely tubular. 
