532 PALME. [ Wallichia. 
1. W. caryotoides, Roxb. (W. densiflora, Brandis; For. Fl, 
549, not Mart.) —Zanoung.—An evergreen, soboliferous, stemless 
or almost stemless tufted palm, the sheaths, etc., scaly and scurfy ; 
leaves pinnate, 4-8 ft. long and longer, the petiole and rachis 
greyish scurfy; pinne cuneate-oblong, 1-14 ft. long, strongly 
J-ribbed, with numerous parallel veins, whitish beneath, sinuately 
lobed, the lobes sharply acute to truncate, sharply erose-toothed, the 
lowermost pinne often by 2-3, rarely 4, the terminal ones broader, 
more truncate-lobed ; flowers small, in large panicle-like glabrous 
spadices, at the base surrounded by several large brown-scurty 
_spathes, the male ones nodding, the female ones almost erect ; rami- 
fications of the female spadix strong and thick, of the males very 
slender and thin; male flowers small, yellowish ; calyx tubular-cup- 
shaped, about 1-14 lin. long, 3-lobed, the lobes so short and broad 
larger and stout, roundish conical, the sepals about 4 lin. long, but 
very broad, confluent ; petals ovate, acute, more than a line long; 
present, few, with only 3 perfect stamens ; drupes ovate-oblong, the 
Has.—In the tropical and damp hill forests of Martaban and Tenasserim ; 
also in the eastern Ava hills and Chittagong, up to- 4,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. 
RS.; Fr. the following year (?)—s.—SS.=Metam. 
2. W. densiflora, Mart. (W. oblongifolia, Griff.) —An ever- 
green soboliferous often caulescent palm 8-15 ft. high, the trunk 
covered with villous-tomentose sheaths, the young parts scurfy- 
villous; leaves up to 10 ft. long, irregularly pinnate, the long 
petiole, rachis, and sheaths scurfy, the latter dissolving along the 
borders into strong fibres; pinne 1-2 ft. long, linear to oblong, 
cuneate, whitish beneath, irregularly lobed, often sinuately 9, 
strongly 1-ribbed with many parallel nerves, the lobes irregular, 
cylindrical, nearly entire ; corolla as long as the calyx, 3-par' 
nearly to the base; stamens 6, the filaments cohering rather high 
up to the petals; female flowers purplish, sometimes quite crowded, 
occupying the lower part of a flattish areole ; calyx very short, 
to the middle into 3 broad rounded teeth; corolla shorter than 
the ovary, 3-cleft, the segments broadly half-ovate, blunt ; ovary 
