1 6 The Palms of British East India. 



subulate. Anthers small effete. Within the attenuate base, an ordi- 

 nary rudiment of the female. 



Female flowers large, also oblique. 



Calyx not quite divided to the middle, scarious, very striate, seg- 

 ments oblong obtuse. Corolla (expanded not seen,) a little longer 

 than the calyx, tripartite nearly to the middle, segments broad 

 ovate. 



Barren stamina six, much like those of the neuter flower. 



Ovarium very densely strigose with erect stout hairs,* (of which 

 the lower are the shorter,) ovate conical, with a stout neck similarly 

 covered with hairs, 3-celled. Ovula solitary, erect, anatropous. 

 Style stout, thicker than the neck of the ovarium, tripartite, seg- 

 ments lanceolate, stigmatose inside. 



This species, would appear to approach Z. secunda in the 

 branching of the spadix. It is the only species I am ac- 

 quainted with in which the wool of the bracteoles is so 

 little developed, as not to be visible externally. The spikes 

 consequently have a smooth aspect. 



6. (6) Z. conferta (n. sp.) pinnis lineari-ensiformibus strictis 

 margine setoso-spinescentibus, spicis (masculis vel fsemineo- 

 neutris) confertis, fructibus (confertis) turbinatis glaberrimis. 



Hab. — In very shady wet places in the great forests of 

 Malacca, as at Ching and Katawn, in flower and fruit most 

 of the year. Assam Kaloobee, Assam Paiah of the Malays 

 of Malacca. 



Descr. — Stout, less tufted than any of the others I have seen, 

 forming an impenetrable jungle. 



Petioles 10-12 or 18-20 feet long, without pinnae for about 

 half their length, roundish but flattened above, stout, armed, ex- 

 cept on upper flat part, with fasciculate, white, slender spines. 

 Pinna regularly alternating, quite straight, almost ensiform, two feet 



* These hairs are flattened and a little dilated at base, upwards they become 

 subulate and have a fibrous appearance. 



