50 The Palms of British East India. 



Hab. — Khasiya Hills, between Nunklow and Naogong, 

 in flower and fruit, November 1835. Herb. Assam Depu- 

 tation. In the same locality Areca gracilis, Wallichia cary- 

 otoides, and Caryota urens were observed. 



Descr.* — Petiole (in the pinniferous portion) triangular, under 

 surface rather convex, with scars of solitary spines or prickles, the 

 two side faces somewhat channelled, and presenting especially to- 

 wards the insertion of the leaves dark filamentous tomentum. Pinna 

 many, crowded, regularly alternating, linear, very narrow, ten inches 

 long, four four-and-half lines wide, subulato-acuminate, or even 

 perhaps cirrhoso-acuminate, upper face with three bristle-bearing 

 carinee, a few smaller ones on the midvein underneath: margins 

 rough with very frequent ascending bristles. 



Male Spadix apparently nodding, long, slender, distantly branch- 

 ed, (in the parts not covered by the very long, narrow, tubu- 

 lar spathes with largish lanceolar nearly unarmed limbs) fre- 

 quently armed with short acute stout thorns, solitary, or in twos 

 or threes. Branches filiform, a foot long, apparently secund, with 

 frequent alternate, simple, bifarious, short, scorpioid recurved sim- 

 ple spikes, each of which is suffulted by a spathe with a rather 

 larger, lanceolate, acute, erect limb. The lowest branch in the 

 specimens is inserted about an inch above the mouth of its spathe. 

 Spikes about an inch long, nearly twice the length of the limbs 

 of the spathes. 



Flowers distichous, oblong, with an amplectent bracte with a sub- 

 lanceolate rather long limb, pennicillate at the apex. Inside this 

 bracte is a short cup emarginate behind. Calyx oblong, divided nearly 

 to the middle in three half- ovate segments. Corolla twice the length 

 of the calyx, divided nearly to the base into three oblong- lanceolate 

 rather obtuse segments. Stamina united to corolla to base of its 

 segments ; filaments (free) long, subulate, about \ shorter than the 

 corolla. Anthers attached above the middle, linear sagittate, slight- 

 ly mucronate, versatile. Pollen yellow, with one longitudinal furrow. 



* Specim : Portions of a leaf, of male spadix in flower, and female spadix in 

 fruit. 



