The Palms of British East India. 43 



as having the sheaths and petioles covered with white to- 

 mentum, fasciculate pinnae and spathes armed with hooked 

 spines. In fruit it appears to be similar. 



Under these circumstances, I have considered the species 

 a distinct one. It is I believe the only species that extends 

 so far north as to come within the limits of the Seharunpore 

 and Dhoon Flora, and I have therefore dedicated it to a 

 well-known investigator of that region. 



19. (9.) C. Roxburghii, vaginarum petiolorumque glabro- 

 rum aculeis parvis solitariis sparsis, petioli faciei inferioris 

 uncinatis, pinnis sequidistantibus lineari-lanceolatis, spadice 

 basi et flagello excepto inermi nutante, spatha infima parce 

 aculeata, corolla calycem duplo superante, stylis sub-clavatis, 

 fructibus oblongo-ovatis apice in cuspidem attenuatis (albis.)* 



C. Rotang. Roxburgh. FL Ind. 3. p. 777. Icones. 14. 

 t. 28. 



Hab. — Bengal and the Coromandel Coast : flowers during 

 the rains ; fruit ripens during the cold season ; Roxburgh. 



" Sans. Vetra, vetus. 



Beng. Bet, or Sanchi-bet. 



Root fibrous. Stem jointed, climbing to a vast extent, enveloped 

 in the thorny sheaths of the leaves ; with them it is about as thick 

 as a man's little finger ; when they are removed, it is in thickness, 

 and every other respect, a common ratan. Leaves pinnate, from 

 eighteen to thirty-six inches long. Leaflets opposite or alternate, 



aculeis rhackium spadicumque masculorum decompositorum reduncis, calycibus 

 campanulatis trifidis, quam petala lanceolata duplo brevioribus ; loris ? — ; 

 baccis. 



Species praecedenti et C. Rotang prae aliis affinis, sed villo rhachium et floribas 

 minoribus facile distinctu. 



Prope Jelpigori in Indiae provincia Rungpaor, lat. bor. 26° 30', Apr Hi 1809, 

 detexit CI. Hamilton:' Mart. Palm. p. 211. 



* Char. ex. Icone. Roxb. citata 



