458 OLXiii, PALMES. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [CaZawMs* 



' 59. C. palustrfs, Griff, in Calc. Jov/rn. Nat. Mist. v. 62 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 71, 1. 199 ; leaves shortly petioled, leaflets alternate the median approxi- 

 mate in pairs broadly eloBgate-lanceolate acuminate with bristly tips 

 3-costate and many-nerved, margins not thickened and costse smooth, 

 petiole with 1-2 rows of short very broad fascicled or simple hooked spines 

 with swollen bases, sheath green sparingly armed with short black or 

 broad hooked spines, spathes tubular obliquely truncate armed with 

 recurved spines, spathels glabrous, fruiting perianth stellate, fruit ellipsoid, 

 oblong, scales obtuse. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 339 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 131; Wal2J.Ann.m. 490, v. 831. 0. ktifolius, Surz (not Roxb.) in 

 Jov/rn. As. 8oc. Beng. xliii. ii. 210, t. 31 A; For. Fl. ii. 518 (partly). 



Tenasseeim, Oriffiih. Peeak, Scortechini (SO*). Andaman Islands, Kurz, 

 Man. 



Stem seandent, everywhere glabrous, with the sheaths on 2—3 in. diam. Leaves 

 8-12 ft. ; leaflets 1-2 ft. by 3-5 in., ratlier thin, uniformly green. Spadix bi- 

 fariously decompound, elongate, droopinsr. Fruit about -J in. long, sciles slightly 

 biconvex, hardly channelled, pale brown with a blackish border. /S'eecZ almost semi- 

 convex ; grooved and irregularly wrinkled. — (Deseript. from Kurz.) 



** Fruiting perianth more or less pedioelliform. 



60. C. unifarius, H. Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. xvii. (1839) 158; var. 

 Pentong, Becc. mss. 



NicoBAE Islands. E. E. Man. 



The plant referi'ed as above consists of a leaf and a portion of a spadix witb the 

 fruit wanting. 0. unifarius is a Javan plant, described as having rother few 

 inequidistant lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate 7-costate leaflets ; the fruit 

 is subglobose about -^o in. diam., with channelled scales and deeply sinuately 

 furrowed seeds with a basal embryo. — I have seen no specimen. J.D.H. 



61. C. neg'lectus, Becc. mss. 

 Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 6399 bis). 



This species is founded in the flagilliferuus apex of a leaf and a portion of a 

 fruiting spadix. The tiagellum is very slender ; the leaflets siibequidistaut, 4—6 in. 

 by ^ in., membranous, linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, setaceous pointed, with 

 3 slender costse and thickened setose margins ; spathes coriaceous, tubular, obliquely 

 truncate, armed with short scattered straight stout spines ; fruiting cal}'x subpedi- 

 celliform, with broad spreading obtuse lobes ; young frnit J in. long, ellipsoid, scales 

 dull pale yellow with broad scarious brown margins and tips, not channelled, beak 

 stout. — I have seen no specimen. J.D.R. 



62. C. virldispinus, Becc. mss. ; leaf flagelliferous, leaflets in very 

 distant fascicles variously grouped eusiform finely acuminate, costje 3 

 strong sparingly setose above naked beneath, raohis trigonous smooth with 

 few solitary very short hooked spines on the lateral angles, spadix elon- 

 gate filiform, fern, spikes elongate with alternate remote horizontal flowers, 

 young frnit oblong strongly beaked, fruiting calyx pedicelliform, petals 

 small, albumen solid. 



Peeak, Scortechini (316*) ; at Larut, alt. 3500-4000 ft. {Eerh. Calcutt. 4127). 

 Stem 20-25 ft. ieaues bright green; leaflets 10 by nearly 1 in. —I have seen 

 only a fragment of a leaf, from Larut, and a spike of very young fruit. J.D.H. 



63. C. Oxleyanus, Teysm. & Binnend. Cat. PI. Hort. Bogor. 1886, 

 75 {name only) erect, leaflets very rnany in subopposite distant fascicles 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate, tip bristly, costee 5 setose above naked 



