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pyramidal, erect, equal to half the length of the stem: flowers 

 green-yeUo-wish, very ftagrant: berries spherical, smooth, green, 

 succulent, oily. 



Malabar, in rocky mountainous places. 



(3) C. ELATA. (Roxh.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 175. — Mart. Pahn. 233. 



Spec. Chab. Fronds sub-orbicular-lunate, cordate at the base, 

 ~palmately cleft : segments ensiform, 40 — 50 pairs : spadix globose, 

 equalling in height the 4th or 5th part of the stem : stem 70 feet : 

 berries oHve. 



Bengal, flowering in March and April. 



GtEWnS IX. LICUALA. 

 Hexandria monogfynia. Sex: Syit: 



Deriv. The name of one of the species in the Macassar language. 



Geut. Chab. Flowers hermaphrodite, sessile or very shortly 

 pedicelled on an alternately branched spadix, sheathed with many 

 incomplete spathes, bracteated : outer calyx campanulate, 3-cleft, 

 inner 3-parted : stamens 6, filaments connate into a somewhat 

 repand cupula, very shortly free at the apex : anthers sagittate : 

 ovaries 3, slightly cohering at the base and truncated top : style 

 trigonal: stigma 3-toothed: drupe simple by abortion, 1 -seeded, 

 putamen thii. : albumen homy : embryo ventral. — Low palms : 

 stem somewhat reed-like : fronds terminal, digitate or palmately 

 flabeUiform : spadix hirsute : flowers usually silky-pubescent : fruit 

 very small, usually yellow. 



(1) L. PELTATA. f Roxh.J 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 179. 



JEkgran. Mart. Palm. t. 134, 162. 



Spec. Chae. Stem 5 — 8-feet, curved,- thin, smooth, rough 

 towards the top with the remains of the petioles : fronds peltate, 

 digitately-flabeUiform, petioles prickly on the whole of the margin : 

 leaflets long-cuneiform, many-nerved, middle one usually broader : 

 teeth triangular, unequally sharply 3-cleft : spadix exceeding the 

 leaflets : flower-bearing branches simple, testaceo-tomentose : fruit 

 oblong-obovate, succulent, orange, dotted. 



Chittagong. SUhet. Assam. Flowering in November. 



