The Palms of British East India. 37 



sheaths, and lacerated scarious limbs, primary ones armed below with 

 stout aculei like those of the spadix, above with a few slender 

 straight spines, those of the branches truncate and unarmed. 



Spikes about six inches long and about two inches distant, dis- 

 tichous. Bractea annular, amplectent, with scarcely any limb. Cup 

 concealed by the bractea, oblique, emarginate behind, where it ad- 

 heres to the spike. « 



Flowers closely bifarious, oblique and curved. Calyx a little 

 longer than the bractea, with three, short, half ovate teeth. Corolla 

 nearly three times longer, tube narrow, nearly as long as the calyx ; 

 segments linear oblong. Stamina six, apparently* attached to the fa- 

 aux, filaments about as long as the petals. Anthers deeply sagittate, 

 versatile. Rudiment of a pistillum cylindrical, tripartite, nearly as 

 long as the tube of the corolla. 



This species is closely related to C. arborescens, from 

 young specimens of which it is scarcely distinguishable 

 at first sight. The armature is much the same, otherwise its 

 pinnae, which are never white underneath, and the flagelli- 

 ferous spadix abundantly distinguish it. In these Gardens, 

 it appears to have been always confounded with the above- 

 mentioned species, so much so, that although it is very orna- 

 mental and easily propagated by its off-sets, from which (as 

 in C. arborescens,) its densely tufted appearance arises, 

 there does not appear ever to have been more than one 

 plant in the Garden. 



From the succeeding species, with which it agrees in the 

 great length of the spadix, it is abundantly distinct. 



16. (6) C. ornatus^ spinis (inferis) petioli pinniferi uncinatis 

 (albis,) pinnis aequidistantibus lineari-lanceolatis (long. 2-2| 

 pedalibus lat. %\ uncialibus) supra 3-5 carinatis carina cen- 



* In reality only adhering as usual to the cohering parts of the corolla. 



f There is another Malacca species found about Ching, which appears to ap- 

 proach this. The following is a description from living specimens out of flower. 



A large climber. Sheaths green, armed on the dorsa with very broad deflexed 

 seriate or solitary spines. Flagellus very long. Ligula distinct. Petiole near the 



