18 The Palms of British East India. 



least so experience tells me, that there are two distinct spe- 

 cies with this unusual inflorescence analogous to that of 

 Elaeis. 



I have specimens marked doubtfully Assam Paiah, in 

 which the leaves are three feet long, sub-opposite, and 

 closer together, with the central carina of the upper surface 

 bristly above the middle, the spines of this are fuscescent. 

 And I have others, marked also doubtfully, in which the 

 pinnae are much smaller, distinctly alternate and distant, 

 with appearances of being interrupted, otherwise agree- 

 ing with those described in Z. conferta. 



SAGUS. 



Rumph. Hb. Amb. 1. p. 72. t. 17. 18 (partim) Metroxy- 

 lon. Rottb. Konig in Ann. Bot. 1. p. 193. pi. 4. Martins. 

 Palma. p. 214. t. 102. 159. Endlicher. Gen. PL 250. No. 

 1742. 



Char. Gen. — Spicce teretes, amentiformes. Flores herma- 

 phroditi, masculi, vel polygami, binati, bracteola villoso-pa- 

 leacea utrinque stipati. Stamina 6. Ovarium squamis ob- 

 tectum. Stylus (saepius) conico-triangularis, tridentatus. 

 Fructus exsuccus, squamis loricatus, 1-spermus. Albumen 

 ruminatum. Embryo dorsalis. 



Habitus. — Palmae Archipelagico-Asiaticce, monocarpi- 

 cae, trunco robusto saepius elato, corona ampla terminali. 

 Folia pinnata: vaginae et petioli spinis rectis saepius ar- 

 mati ; pinnae lineari-ensiformes. Inflorescentia terminalis, 

 plerumque pyramidalis . Spathae plures, i?icompletce, inermes 

 vel spinis rectis obsitae. Flores plerumque rubescentes. 

 Ovaria (monente Jack) unius fere distincla, aliarum co- 

 adunata. 



