422 OLxiii. TAiMEJE. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Arenga. 



auricled and only on one side, the acute male buds, and by the oblong fruit narrowed 

 at both ends. 



3. A. Wig-htii, Griff, in Cole. Journ. Nat. Mist. v. 475 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 167, t. 235 E ; trunk short stout soboliferous, leaflets alternate 

 crowded linear 2-aurioled at the base, tip narrowed unequally 2-lobed and 

 toothed white beneath, male buds acute. 



The Deccan Peninsula; Coimbatore, WigM; Nilghiri hills, alt. 3000 ft., 

 Gamhle. 



Trunk 3-8 ft. Leates 12-28 ft. ; leaflets linear-ensiform, 3-3J ft. by 1^-2 in., 

 margins sparingly toothed from the middle upwards ; lower auricle very large, over- 

 lapping the petiole ; petiole 6-8 ft. Spadices 4 ft., peduncle 2 ft. Fruit about 

 the size of a crab-apple, globosely turbinate, broader than long. 



13. CAItVOTA, Linn. 



Tall palms, soboliferous or not, flowering from the upper leaf-sheaths, 

 and successively from lower ^alterDately male and fem.) ; trunk naked 

 or sheathed. Leaves few, very large, broad, bipinnatisect ; leaflets very 

 obliquely dimidiately flabelliform, or cuneiform, prremorse or rounded 

 at the tip, petioliiles or bases swollen at the insertion. Spathes 3-5, incom- 

 plete, tubular. Spadtces interfoliar, shortly pedanoled, much fastigiately 

 branched ; branches slender, pendulous ; flowers solitary and male, or 

 3-nate with the intermediate fem. Fem. fl. symmetric ; sepals rounded, 

 imbricate; petals linear-oblong, valvate ; stamens very many, filaments 

 very short, anthers long. Fem,. fl. subglobose, sepals rounded, imbricate ; 

 petals rounded, valvate ; ovary 3-celled, stigma 3-lobed, ovules erect. 

 Fruit globose, 1-2-Beeded, stigma terminal. Seeds erect ; albumen rumi- 

 nate; embryo dorsal. — Species about 10, tropical Asiatic, Malayan and 

 Australian. 



1. C. urens, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 187 ; trunk stout tall not soboliferous, 

 leaflets cuneiform very obliquely truncate acutely serrate-toothed, upper 

 margin produced and caudate, male buds cylindric about 3 times as long as 

 broad, stamens 40— 15, fruit §-f in. diam., base apiculate, testa adherent. 

 Gxrtn. f met. i. 20, t. 7 ; Soxb. Fl. Liid. in. 62b; Mart. Mist. Nat. Palm. 

 193. t. 107 and 108, and 162 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ-. Nat. Hist. v. 479 ; 

 Palms Brit. Lid 160; Thw. Fnum. ?>2d ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 278; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 41.—Bheede Mart. Mai. i. t. 11. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India, from the Sikkim Himalaya and Assam 

 southwards to Ceylon ond Singapore — Distrib. Trop. Asia, Malaya. 



Trunk 30-40 ft. 1 ft. diam., annulate. Leaves 18-20 by 10-12 ft., leaflets 5-6 ft., 

 curved and drooping, pinnules 4-8 in., broadly cuneate, upper narrower, outer 

 margin caudate; petiole very stout. Spadi.v 10-12 ft. long; spathes 1^ ft;.; 

 branches all reaching the same level ; flowers 3-nate, a fem. between two males ; 

 male ^ in. long, or more. Fruit reddish. 



2. C. obtusa, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Mist. v. 480; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 170; glabrous, trunk tall stout not soboliferous, leaflets very 

 obliquely cuneiform crenate, upper margin not caudate, male buds about 

 as long as broad, stamens very many, fruit -f-l in. diam., base not apicu- 

 late. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 195. 0. obtusidentata, Griff Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 236 A, B. 



Uppee Assam ; Mishmi Mts., alt. 3-1000 ft., G-riJfith. 



