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scaphoidea el vaginam contiguam semi-amplectens ; pinnae al~ 

 ternce, cuneatce, ineequilaterce, a medio supra (vel margine ter- 

 minali) erosce, subtus glaucce. Inflorescentia Sagi vel Za- 

 laccae. Spathae plures incomplete inermes. Bracteolae in 

 villosfere omnino solutce. 



Genus foliis Caryotae vel Wallichiae, habitu quodammodo 

 Calami, inflorescentia et semine Sagi et Zalaccae, insigne 

 forma et evolutione ligulae. 



Character (posthac emendandus) haustus est, quoad flores, 

 e C. laciniosa, quoad organa vegetationis e C. wallichiagfolia. 

 Hue verisimiliter referendus Calamus caryotoides, A. Cun- 

 ningham. Martius, Palmae. p. 212, et forsan Calamus rhom- 

 boideus, Blume. Syst. Veget. ed. Schltes. 7. pt. 2. p. 1332. 



9. (1) C. laciniosus, (n.sp.) petiolo (partis lamelliferae) aculeis 

 sparsis uncinatis armato, pinnis petiolulatis cuneato-obovatis 

 medium supra varie et argute inciso-dentatis, spicis paten- 

 tissimis palmaribus gracilibus, pedicellis spatha inclusis 

 apicem supra vaginulam brevem ferentibus. 



Hab. — In woods along the sea-shores of the Islands of the 

 Mergui Archipelago, March 1835. Herb Mergui, No. 1104. 



Descr.* — Dioecious ? Flagelliferous, climbing to a great extent. 

 Petiole angular above, below slightly convex and armed with scat- 

 tered, hooked, short thorns, white with a dark point. Pinnee attached 

 by distinct stalks, (which are much compressed, and about half inch 

 long,) about seven inches long by three and half broad, plicate, be- 

 low the middle distinctly cuneate and quite entire, above the mid- 

 dle half-ovate and variously jagged, point prolonged into a long 

 acumen, glaucous, coriaceous, the under surface with as many distinct 

 veins as larger, incisions. 



Spadix much branched, covered with imbricated, smooth, spathes, 

 with short, oblique, acute, suberect limbs. Branches axillary, very 

 spreading, similarly covered with spathes from which the spikes 



* Specimens consist of a portion of a leaf and of a spadix. 



