Wallichia.] clxiii, palmed. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 419 



sepals orbicular, coriaoeoua, imbricate ; petals triangular valvate ; stami- 

 nodes few or ; ovary 2-3-celled, stipitate ; stigmas conic ; ovules subbasilar. 

 Fruit ovoid-oblong, 1-3-celled and -seeded. Seeds erect, plano-convex; 

 albumen equable; embryo dorsal. — Species 3 or more, Indian and Malayan. 



1. W. densiflora, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 190, & Suppl. 315; 

 leaflets oblona; or linear-oblon? sinuately lobed acutely toothed white 

 beneath, fern-, fl. crowded 2-bracteate, male corolla twice as long as the calyx, 

 mouth of calyx quite eqtire, fem. corolla shorter than the ovary. KiJ/rz 

 For. Fl. ii. 532; Brandis For. Fl. 549; Bot. Mag.t. 4.584. W. oblongi- 

 folia, Griff, in Gale. Journ Nat. Hist. v. 486 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn,. 

 Soc. xi. 6. Hariua oblougitolia. Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 175, t. 237 A, B, 0. 

 W. caryotoides. Wail. Gat. 8596 B. 



'I'kopical HiMiLATA from Kuinaon eastwards, ascendiag to 3000 ft. Assam, 

 the Khasia Hills, and CaiiTAaoNa. 



Stems very short or (or often 8-15 fc. Kurz) ; trunk sheathed, scurfy, sheaths 

 villous, resolving into strong fibres, hemes 8-10 ft. ; leaflets 1-2 ft., very many, 

 alternate or the lower 2-1-nate, 1-costate and with many parallel nerves, bright 

 green above ; sheaths scurfy. Spathes purple. Spadices 12-18 in. long, branches 

 of fem. very stout ; floweri in many spiral series; malefl. yellow, solitary, or the 

 lower in pairs with an intermediate fem.; filaments adnate to the petals ; /em. /J. 

 purplish ; calyr very short, corolla-lobes obtuse. Fruit about i in. long, dull 

 purple. 



2. W. caryotoides, Boxb. Cor. PI. iii. t. 295 ; leaflets oblong or 

 linear-oblong panduriformly excised and acutely toothed white beneath, 

 fl. fem. distant 3-bracteate, male corolla half as long as the calyx, mouth of 

 calyx 3-toothed, fem. corolla about twice as long aa the ovary. Mart. 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 180, t. 136 ; Wait. Gat. 8596 A ; Griff, in Gale. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. V. 485; Kurz For. FL ii. 532; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 34. 

 Hgirinacaryotgides, Ham. in Mem. Wern. Soc. v. 317 ; Griff. Palms 

 SrUrTnd. 1747 1. 237. Wrightia caryotoides, iJo.c5. jBTuri. Beng. 63; Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 621. 



Chittagong, and Buema, in hill forests, ascending to 4000 ft. 



Habit of W. oblongifolia, and very similar in foliage aud inflorescence, but 

 differing in tbe characters given above and in the fruit, which Kurz describes as 

 being as lai'ge as a nutmeg, ovoid-oblong, rarely 2-seeded. — (Roxburgh says as 

 large as a coffee bean.) 



3. W, disticha, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 6; trunk tall 

 stout, leaves distichous, leaflets fascicled linear narrowed to the base prse- 

 morse denticulate, male calyx cupular 3-lobed, corolla thrioe as long, 

 fem. corolla longer than the ovary. W. YomEo, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 533. 

 Oaryota mitis, Serb. Galcutt. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, in tropical gorges, T. Anderson, and probably eastwards, 

 Pequ; Kurz. 



Trunk 10-15 ft. by 5-6 in. diam., naked, annulate. Leaves 6-10 ft., alternate 

 erect; leaflets narrowing from near the truncate apex to the base and with a large 

 tooth on each side about the middle, 1-2 ft., by 2-2-^ in., glaucous beneath j petiole 

 and sheath short, scurfy. Male spadix 3-4 ft., very narrow, linear in outline, with 

 innumerable recurved slender crowded branches, .fem. spaiw 6-8 ft., pendulous; 

 branches stout, simple ; fliowers disposed in many spiral sei'ies, green. Fruit oblong, 

 top obscurely 2-3-lobed, reddish. — Kurz describes the loaves as disposed in a -^ 

 spiral. 



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