46 The Palms of British East India. 



spicis bifariis recurvato-patentibus saepius simplicibus flo- 

 ribus binatis altero superoque pedicellato masculo, altero 

 sessili fcemineo, calyce urceolato breviter tridentato, stylis 

 sub-ternis filiformibus longis patenti-revolutis. 



C. tenuis. Roxb. FL Ind. 3. p. 780. Icones. Suppt. 5. /. 18. 

 (bona) — Mart, Palm. p. 212. 



Hab. — Eastern Bengal as at Sillet ; Assam, where it is 

 known as the " Bet" proper. Major Jenkins. Bandhari- 

 bet of Chittagong. Roxburgh. 



Roxburgh says, " it is a beautiful, delicate species ; when divested 

 of the sheaths of the leaves, and cleaned, it is not thicker than a 

 common quill, and of the colour of the common ratan. Flowering 

 time, the rainy season. 



"Stems simple, perennial, climbing to a great extent ; the extremi- 

 ties inserted in the armed sheaths of the leaves, including these, it is 

 scarcely so thick as a common ratan. Leaves oblong, equally pin- 

 nate, nearly two feet long. Leaflets from twenty to thirty on each 

 side, equi-distant, alternate, linear, polished, three-nerved ; margins, 

 apices, and nerves bristly ; six inches long, and scarcely half an inch 

 broad at the broadest part. Petioles armed. Flagelli from the 

 sheaths, simple, armed, as in the other species. Spathes numerous, 

 sheathing, sub-cylindric, one for each division of the spadix, even to 

 the pairs of flowers. Spadices occupy the place of the flagelli on 

 a few of the spathes, decompound ; primary branches, four, five, or 

 six, remote, flexuose, with about half a dozen alternate, recurvate 

 branches on each side. Hermaphrodite and male flowers in alternate 

 pairs, the latter short-pedicelled. Male. Calyx shorter than the 

 corol, unequally 2- 3- toothed, corol supported on a fleshy gib- 

 bous receptacle, border 2 or 3-cleft. Filaments four, five, or six. 

 Anthers sagittate. Hermaphrodite. Calyx and corol equal, gib- 

 bous, with a contracted, 3-toothed mouth. Filaments six, united in 

 a ring round the lower half of the germ ; anthers sagittate, large, 

 and seemingly fertile. Germ ovate, 1 -celled, containing three seeds 

 attached to the bottom of the cell. Style scarcely any ; stigma 

 3-cleft ; segments rugose and recurvate." Roxburgh. 



