The Palms of British East India. 5 1 



The fruit spadix ends in a long flagellus armed as usual, the spikes 

 appressed to the filiform branches. Fruit globoso-turbinate, apex 

 cuspidate, looking rather downwards, scales rather lax, whitish, with 

 conspicuous brown margins and points. Its base is surrounded 

 by the flattened perianth, (the calyx with three oblong segments, 

 the corolla with three segments a little longer and narrower,) and by 

 two bracteolse, of which the inner bears a disc on one side, 

 and forms a cup ; they do not appear to be pennicillate. Seed one, 

 roundish, with a foveola on one side. Albumen solid with a pitted 

 areolar surface, and a cavity corresponding to the foveola filled with 

 the tegument, which is blackish-brown. Embryo basilar. 



The male spadix of this resembles in some respect that of 

 C. palustris. 



In the leaves it approaches C. tenuis, Roxburgh : it is 

 distinguished from all the others by the long filiform dis- 

 tant branches of the spadix, the lanceolate rather large 

 limbs of the primary, and especially of the secondary spathes, 

 and the pennicillate bracteae, the cellular hairs or proces- 

 ses forming the tufts of which are not altogether unlike the 

 bodies forming the tufts at the ends of the leaves in certain 

 mosses. 



Plukenet's figure of Phaenicoscorpiurus, etc. resembles 

 this in many respects.* Hamiltonf quotes the same figure 

 for his C. Heliotropium, to which I should have referred 

 this, had the relative lengths of the calyx and corolla 

 agreed with Martius's character of that species.J 



* Phytogr. t. 106. fig. 2. 



f Cat. Dried Plants, p. 90.— No. 877. 



X " C. Heliotropium Hamilton : caudice scandente ; frondium ecirrosurum 

 jnnnis aquidistantibus concinnis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, aculeis rhachium 

 spatharumque recurvis ; spadicibus masculis decompositis, calycibus urceolatis 

 breviter dentatis, petala subtsquantibus ; loris f — ; baccis. . 



Frondium forma et verosimiliter caudice affinis est C. Rotang, sed difi'ert spadi- 

 cum masculorum julis laxioribus, spathellularum apparatu minore, calycibus multo 

 longioribus, ore contracto breviter tridentatis. 



In Goyalpara, India Orientalis, Augusto, 1808, legit Hamilton." Martius. 

 Palm. p. '211. 



