Corypha.] clxiii. palmbji. (Beooari & Hook, f.) 429 



trunk obsoletely annulate, leaves snbrotund complicate above the middle 

 subglaucous, basal lobes overlapping, panicle pyramidal, branches axillary 

 to the spathes spreading, secondary forked, drupes l-j in. diam. Kunth 

 J^num. iii. 236 ; Mart. Nat. Ilist. Palm. iii. 231 ; Qriff. in C'alo. Journ. 

 Nat Hist. V. 317 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 114, t. 220 B, F, Wall. Cat. 8616. 

 TalKera bengaiensis Spreng. Syst. ii. 18. T. Tali, Mart, in Roem. & Sch. 

 8yst. vii. 1306. 



Benq-al, Boxhurgh. 



Trunk about 30 ft., dark brown, rather rough. Leaves 6 ft. long by 15 broad, 

 90-lOO.fid, lobes deeper and broader than in umbracuUfera,, the central 3-3^ ft. ; 

 petiole 5-10 ft., not spirally arranged,, biauricled, spinous. Spadim 20 ft. or more 

 high ; primary branches with ascending tips, secondary bifarious, drooping ; flowers 

 in close clusters. Calyx obscurely B-lobed. Ovary suddenly contracted into the 

 style. Drupes 1-3, dark olive or greenish-yellow. 



4. C. macropoda, Kurz in Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xliii. ii. (1874) 

 197, t. 15 ; For. Fl. iii. 525 ; stemless, leaves palmately flabellate 12-20 ft. 

 diam. divided to the middle 6-10 ft. long, petiole 18-25 ft. slender base as 

 thick as the arm, spines black, drape the size of a cherry smooth olive 

 brown. 



South Andaman Isids., Kurz. 



IMPEKPECTIT known SPECIES. 



5. C. MAETiAlfA, Becc. mss. ; panicle hemispherical, branchlets pendulous, petiole 

 armed with small strong black spines, calyx broadly 3-lobed, ovary oonico-ovoid 

 narrowed into the short style, drupe on a stipes ^^ in. long. 



BUBMA; Mergni? {Hort. Oalcutt.). 



6. C. UMBEAOULIFBKA, iimre. ; Wall. Cat. 8615-; branchlets of panicle about 

 2 ft., as in C. Talliera, calyx distinctly 3-lobed, ovary gradually narrowed into n. 

 short style. — Hort. Carey 1828, WalUch,. 



18. MANNORKOPSi H. Wendl. 



A gregarious tufted low-growing glabrous palm, with prostrate branch- 

 ing robust rhizomes or stems. Leaves cuneately flabellate, rigid, plicate, 

 split into curved 2-fld segments ; petiole short. Spadix interfoHar, ranch 

 branched; spathes tubular, sheathing, spathels ochreate; flowers poly- 

 gamous. Calyx tubular, membranous, unequally 3-lobed. Corolla 3- 

 partite, segments valvate. Stamens in hermaph. fl. 6, in male about 9. 

 Ovary trigonous ; style short, stigma 3-toothed ; ovules basilar. Drupe 

 small, globose or oblong, l-seede<d, style basilar. Seed free, erect, 

 "ventrally hollowed; hilum small, albumen equable; embryo dorsal or 

 subbasilar. 



1. N. Bitchieana, M. Wendl. in Bat. Zeit. 1879, 148 ; Aitahis. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 140, 141 and 187, t. 26. Ohamserops Ritchieana, 

 Qriff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Mist. v. 342 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 136 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 547; Gard. Chron. 1886, 653,^^. 128, 129 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 

 iii. 252. 



SlNDH, and the WESTEBif Pakjae ; on the Salt Range and at Attok, 

 AitoMson. — DiSTBlB. Affghanistan. 



Stem or rhizome 8-10 ft. long, as thick as a man's arm, dichotomously branched, 

 covered with old leaf sheaths. Leaves 2-3 ft. long and broad, whitish, split to the 

 middle or lower into rigid segments with often interposed fibres ; petiole 6-12 in. ; 

 margins serrulate. Spadix pyramidal, 2-B ft., branches ascending and recurved, 

 branchlets slender; flowers in pairs within a membranous spathella, one sessile 



