24 The Palms of British East India. 



project. Spikes cylindrical, three or three and half inches long, three 

 or four lines broad, having a woolly appearance ; their pedicels are 

 almost entirely enclosed. Bractece rounded, imbricating, lowermost 

 empty ; wool appears altogether to take the place of bracteolse. 



Flowers* solitary, half immersed in the wool, which is exceedingly 

 dense. Calyx short, quite immersed in wool, with three broad, acute 

 teeth. Corolla deeply tripartite, segments oblong, spreading^ exserted. 

 Stamina six, united to the corolla to the base of its segments. Fila- 

 ments (free) broad, very short, united into a very short annulus. 

 Anthers large, linear, subsagittate at the base. 



Ovarium occupying the tube of the corolla, surrounded by the fila- 

 ments, covered with toothed scales, after fecundation becoming quite 

 exserted. Style subulate, rather long, minutely three- toothed at the 

 apex. Fruit turbinate, apiculate, scales greenish with brownish mar- 

 gins. Seed with a large, superior excavation filled with brown cellular 

 substance. f Albumen horny, ruminate. Embryo vague, obconical. 



This species appears to be osculant between Calamus, 

 Sagus, and Zalacca, having the habit of the former, the in- 

 florescence of the second and in some measure the seed of 

 the last genus, to which it also approaches, as does the suc- 

 ceeding, through Zalacca glabrescens and secunda. 



I observe that a gummy matter has been secreted from 

 wounds in the spadix. 



10. (2) C. wallichicefolius, (n.sp.) petiolo (partis lamelliferae) 

 aculeis sparsis uncinatis armato, pirmis cuneato-obovatis 

 medium supra obtuse dentatis et erosis, spicis spithamaeis 

 directione irregularibus, pedicellis paullo exsertis apice 

 vagina ore lacera obtectis. 



* The flowers appear to be solitary, for they correspond with the central line of 

 their bracteae, and I have not seen any rudiment of others in the very dense wool 

 surrounding the base of the flower. 



f My MSS. written on the spot say, " Excavatio supera maxima, materie cellulosa 

 brunnea repleta." 



