428 CLXiii. PALMERS. (Beccari & Hook, f.) \_Phosnix. 



strongly oonduplioate, fruiting peduncle 2 ft. P. humilis, var. robusta, 

 JBecc. Males. 348, 384. 



Behak ; on Parnsnath, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



A very remarkable species from the great bulk of the trunks, and their tessellated 

 appearance, due to the comparatively small size of the appressed old leaf-sheaths, of 

 whidh, judging from excellent photographs procured for me by Mr. Clarke, there 

 must be very many in a plane cutting the diameter of the trunk ; they give to the 

 trunk the appearance of a Cycas. Tlie figure of JP. cyeaAifolia, Kegel, Gartenfl. 

 1879, 131, t. 974, a plant referred to dactylifera, strongly resembles robusta in the 

 bulk and marking of the trunk. 



17. CORVFKA. 



Tall stout unarmed palms, dying after once flowering and fruiting. 

 Leaves very large, orbicular or lunate, flabellately multifid; petiole 

 spinous. Spadix very large, terminal, erect, paniculate ; spathes many, 

 tubular. Flowers small, bisexual. Galyx cupular, 3-fid. Petals 3, con- 

 nate below in a stipes, ovate, acute, imbricate or subvalvate. Stamens 6, 

 filaments subulate, anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 3-lobed, 3-oelled ; style short, 

 subulate, stigma minute. Fruit of 1-3 globose flesby drupes, styles 

 basilar. Seed erect, globose or oblong ; albumen equable ; embryo spiral. 

 — Species about 6, tropical Asiatic. 



1. C. elata^ Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 176 ; trunk spirally ridged, leaves 

 lunate, petiole with black margins and curved spines, panicle rounded 

 ovoid, branches spreading, drupe about 1 in. diam. stipitate. Mart. Mist. 

 Nat. Pahn. 233 ; Kunth Fnum. iii. 236. Grif. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 V. 314; Palms Brit. Ind. 112, t. 220 D. C. Gebanga, iittrz For. Fl. ii. 

 625, an Plume ? 



Bengai, and Burma. 



Trunk straight, 60-70 ft. high by 2 ft. diam. Leaves 8-10 ft. diam., 80-100- 

 fid to about the middle ; lobes ensiform, obtuse or 2-ftd ; petioles 6-12 ft., spirally 

 arranged, auricled. Spadix about J the height of the trunk, much narrower in span 

 than the foliage, supradecompound ; spathes many. Flowers in scattered fascicles 

 on the rather stout spreading branclilets of the spadix ; calyx 3-toothed, petals re- 

 flexed; ovary suddenly contracted into the short style. Drupe very shortly stipitate, 

 olive colrd., smooth ; pericarp friable, endocarp adnate to the testa. — Griffith describes 

 the leaves as nearly circular, 5-6 by 15 ft. broad, with narrower segments than in the 

 other Indian species. 



2. C. umbraculifera, Zinn. Sp. PI. Fd. ii. 1657 ; trunk annulate, 

 leaves sublunate or circular palmately pinnatifid conduplicate above the 

 middle, panicle pyramidal, primary branches piercing the spathes, drupes 

 Ii in. diam. Gsertn. Fruct. i. 18, t. 7 (seed inverted) ; Kunth Fnum. iii. 236; 

 Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 177 ; Mart. Sist. Nat. Palm. iii. 232, t. 108, 127 (partim) ; 

 Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 319 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 116. Thw. 

 Fnum. 329; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Snppl. 94; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 625 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 549 ; Wall. Gat. SQib.—Pheede Hort. Mai. iii. t. 1-13. 



Malabar Coast and Ceylon. 



Trun/c 60-80 ft. diam. Leaves 6 ft. long by 13 broad, 80-100-fid to about 

 the middle, segments obtusely 2-fld ; petiole 7 ft., spines often in pairs. Spadix 

 attaining 20 ft., pyramidal, branches spreading. Calyx broadly 3-lobed. Ovary 

 suddenly contracted into the style. Drupe shortly stipitate. 



3. C. TaUlera, Boxh. Gor. PI. iii. 251, t. 255, 256 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 174 ; 



