The Palms of British East India. 15 



Hab. — Penang, Mr. Lewes, who sent it to me under the 

 name Salak. 



Descr.* — Petioles slender, trigonal even below the pinnae, with 

 appearances of having been armed with a simple row of spines on 

 either face. Uppermost spines of the under face slightly curved 

 upwards, short and stout, on the upper triangular part lower down 

 is a row of larger solitary spines. Pinna not interrupted, narrow 

 lanceolate, twenty and twenty-two inches long by two and a half 

 broad, cirrhoso- acuminate, margins towards the apex with a few 

 setigerous teeth, veins as in Z. edulis ; terminal part of the leaf bilobed, 

 each lobe deeply four and five divided. 



Spadices much branched, less covered than in most of the other 

 species by the primary spathes, the branches entirely covered with 

 loosely sheathing spathes, generally with one terminal spike, some- 

 times themselves branched, each branch bearing a spike. Young 

 spikes or aments slender, owing to the broad shallow bractes look- 

 ing as though they were annulate. Mature female-neuter ones stout, 

 three-four inches long, with an obvious spiral arrangement. Bractes 

 of apex, (which is attenuate cuspidate,) and base, empty, broad, 

 margins undulate. Bracteolce and septum large, shortly woolly at 

 the points. No wool visible externally. 



Male spikes cylindrical, about the same length, but much smaller 

 in diameter, wool very little developed. Bracteoles obsolete or 

 nearly so. 



Male flowers in pairs, both of equal size, projecting very little 

 beyond the bracteas. Calyx three- toothed, teeth rounded. Corolla 

 tripartite nearly to the middle, tapering below, (a considerable part 

 of this taper portion is torus, or rather internode,) segments broadish, 

 oblong. 



Stamina united to the corolla as far as the base of the segments. 

 Filaments (free) short. Anthers oblong. No rudiment of a Pistillum. 



Flowers of female neuter spikes in pairs, one large, and one small. 



Smaller flower neuter, longer and larger than the male flower, 

 and more oblique, but otherwise much the same. Barren stamina 

 six, united high up to the petals, filaments (free) of middling length, 



* Specimens, portion of a leaf and spadix in flower. 



