The Palms of British East India. 4 1 



tudine uncialibus,) superne carinis 3 longe setosis, spadice 

 nutante aculeato, spathis parce armatis, corolla calycem 

 subaequante, fructibus pisiformibus cuspidatis (albis.) 



Hab. — In the denser, moister parts of the jungles of Dehra 

 Dhoon, chiefly towards the eastern extremity of the valley, 

 as at Kurruck. 



Deck.* — A small elegant species forming impenetrable patches. 



Sheaths bi-auriculate at their mouths, armed with solitary long 

 subulate spines, less flat than usual. Petiole in the lower part armed 

 with similar but smaller spines, in the pinniferous part these become 

 aculei. Pinna numerous, approximated, often nearly opposite, linear, 

 acute, ten or eleven inches long by half an inch broad, above tri- 

 carinate, the carinse bearing distant long bristles ; margins with fre- 

 quent short, appressed, bristle teeth. 



Spadix nodding or pendulous ? plano-convex where not concealed 

 by the long, tubular, limbless, slightly armed spathes ; convex face 

 armed with solitary aculei. Branches a span or foot distant, about a 

 span long, expanded, owing to the very spreading spikes. Spaces 

 between these covered with lax, truncate, submucronate smooth 

 spathes. From above the apex of these arise the spikes, which are 

 rather slender, two or three inches long, loaded with fruit. 



Fruit (immature) ovate -roundish, with a distinct cuspis, about 

 the size of a large pea : scales white, rather large, with an indistinct 

 central furrow, paler margins and brown points ; each is suffulted by 

 a minute scale-shaped bracte and two minute bracteoles, of which 

 the inner is the larger ; by the calyx with a short cylindrical solid 

 base, divided to the middle into three oblong segments, the corolla 

 with three lanceolate segments equal in length to the calyx, and six 

 stamina. 



I am in considerable doubt regarding this species, which 

 is that alluded to by Dr. Royle as agreeing with Roxburgh's 



* Specimens ; an entire young mutilated leaf, portions of perfect parts of 

 leaves, and of a spadix in fruit. 



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