32 The Palms of British East India. 



The entire specimen of the spadix is about twenty inches long,* 

 branches distant, and with the exception of the lowermost, which 

 has two branches, simple. Peduncle below the first spathe or branch 

 rather compressed and armed with the usual form of spines, slen- 

 der and deflexed. Above this the spadix presents no armature. 

 Spathes smooth, except the lowest, the remains of which present 

 spines, its tubular part about an inch long, limb lacerated and 

 truncate. 



Spikes three-five inches long, flexuose. Bractece not very closely 

 imbricating, with limbs shorter than usual and almost annular ; upper 

 bracteole annular, under adnate behind to the spike and bicarinate. 

 Fruit about twelve lines long, by seven in diameter, surrounded at 

 the base by the calyx and corolla nearly equal in length, and much 

 longer than their respective bractese, apex obtusely mammillate ; scales 

 chesnut brown, very large, with pale membranous margins ; central 

 furrow broad and well developed. Seed one. Albumen ruminate. 



This species appears to be closely allied to the succeed- 

 ing, the terminal part of the leaf of that differs however 

 in the pinnae presenting only one carina above, and being 

 smooth on both sides. Its spathes too are always much 

 lacerated, whereas in this they appear to become truncate. 



13. (3) C. schizospathus, (n. sp.) pinnis equidistantibus li- 

 neari-lanceolatis (long, bipedalibus lat. \\ uncialibus) supra 1- 

 carinatis subtus secus venam mediam setigeris, spathis omni- 

 bus inermibus primariis varie flssis et fibroso-laceris, ramis 

 approximatis inferioribus decompositis, floribus distantibus, 

 calyce bractea duplo longiore quam corolla duplo breviore, 

 staminibus distinctis inclusis. 



Hab. — Khasiya Hills ; also Darjeeling, whence it was 

 procured by the Seharunpore Collectors. 



DEscR.f — Petiole triangular, under flat face armed with ternary 

 or solitary stout deflexed spines, whitish with black points. 



* By this specimen it would approach the Piptospathae, but the spathes are 

 evidently not deciduous, the tubular bases remaining, 

 t Specimens ; parts of leaves and male inflorescence. 



