52 The Palms of British East India. 



22. (12) C fasciculatus, spinis vaginarum et petiolorum 

 albido-furfuraceorum longis rectis subulatis fasciculatis vel 

 solitariis, pinnis egregie fasciculatis subquadrifariis lineari- 

 bus (long. 9-10 uncialibus lat. vix uncialibus), marginibus 

 et carina centrali supra spinoso-setigeris subtus venis tri- 

 bus setulosis et saepe furfuraceis, spadice aculeato, spatbis 

 infimis primariis bicarinatis secus carinas aculeatis superi- 

 oribus ecarinatis aculeatioribus, spicis compositis, spiculis 

 brevissimis scorpioideis, bracteolis distinctis, corolla calycem 

 triplo superante, stylis clavatis reflexo-patentibus, fructibus 

 oblongo-ovatis breve cuspidatis (albis), albumine aequabili hinc 

 umbilicato. 



C. fasciculatus. Roxb. Flor. Ind. 3. p. 779. Mart. 

 Palm. p. 209. 



Hab. — Bengal: (common about Calcutta in Bamboo jun- 

 gles,) Cuttack, and many otber places ; Roxburgh says he 

 never saw it to the southward of Ganjam. Bura-bet of the 

 Bengalees. 



Flowers during the rains. 



Descr. — Grows in small thick tufts. Stems rather slender, and 

 not very long : sheaths at first covered with white meal, afterwards 

 smoother and green, armed with spreading strong flat spines, soli- 

 tary or in short series. Petioles (pinniferous part) convex trigonal, 

 covered with brownish white meal, as also are the bases of the spines, 

 under flat face armed with long flat spreading very sharp spines ge- 

 nerally fascicled, sometimes solitary, upper angle with solitary or bi- 

 nary similar, but smaller ones. Pinna in fascicles of threes, occa- 

 sionally four, all slightly arched, convex on the upper face, the 

 lowest of each fascicle ascending patent, and crossing obliquely over 

 the others, so that they are nearly tetrastichous. They are linear, 

 eight or nine inches long, about one inch broad, upper surface with 

 one carina armed, as also are the margins, with whitish thorny 

 teeth : midvein underneath with a few bristles ; under surface 

 mottled. 



