20 The Palms of British East India. 



half naked and very thin. In this part there are three ovula, 

 ascending, anatropous, but it is difficult to ascertain whether 

 the ovary is three-celled from its great tenuity. Style conical, 

 3-gonal, tridentate at its apex, the teeth ovate, stigmatose on the 

 inner surface. 



Fruit (very immature) between top-shaped and globose, pointed by 

 the style, covered with scales of a green colour with ciliated edges. 

 Seed (very immature) erect. 



This species was brought to me when at Malacca, with 

 the name Rumbiya. No leaves came with it. It appears 

 to differ sensibly from S. laevis, Jack, in the pairs of flow- 

 ers consisting of a male and a hermaphrodite, in the size 

 and exsertion of the flowers, the coadunate ovaria and the 

 comparatively long style. I may also mention that the com- 

 mon Rumbiya of Malacca, which is I believe identical with 

 this, has distinctly calamine spines on the petioles. 



From S. Rumphii,* Martius, it appears to differ chiefly 

 in the spadices being smooth, and in the teeth of the calyx ; 

 but taking the phrase " spadicibus laevibus" in what ap- 

 pears to have been the general acceptation, it may be the 

 S. Rumphii of Willdenow, the Hortus Kewensis, and 

 Blume.f 



Rumph's figure of Sagus, Hb. Amb. 1. t. 17. quoted by 

 all authors as S. Rumphii, gives a very fair idea of this 

 species : the habit of these Palms is somewhat peculiar, and 

 not like that of Cocos nucifera. 



8. (2) S. lee vis, inerme, floribus minutis villo obtectis her- 

 maphrodites, ovariis tribus medio cohserentibus, stylo nullo, 

 fructu globoso vertice depressiusculo. 



* S. Rumphii, petiolis spadicibusque armatis, floribus exsertis masculo et foeini- 

 neo, dentibus calycis ovatis acutis, staminibus floris faeminei anantheris, fructu 

 depresso globoso. 



S. Rumphii. Wild. Sp. PL 4. 404 ? Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3. 623 ? Sagus seu 

 Palma farinaria. Rumph. 1. 72. t. 17. 18. Ham. Comm. Hb. Amb. in Mem. 

 Wern. Soc. 5. 318. Metroxyloa Kuraphii. Mart. Palm.'lU. U 102. 159. 



f In adnot : Mart. Palm, 215. 



