56 The Palms of British East India. 



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Spadix in the exposed parts plano-convex, with strong short 

 hooked thorns on the convex face. Spathes tubular lowest com- 

 pressed, two-edged, with short teeth along the edges, upper ones not 

 compressed, almost unarmed. Branches altogether exserted, being 

 attached considerably above the mouths of the spathes, five inches 

 long. Spikes simple, stout, 2-3 inches in length, arising from 

 a knob just above the points of narrow spathes, which cover the 

 internodes of the branches, and which have small acuminate limbs. 

 Fruit subsessile, globose, as usual tribracteolate, surrounded at the 

 base by the flattened calyx with oblong-ovate segments, and the 

 corolla with ovate -lanceolate segments and 6 sterile stamens ; scales 

 large white, with a brown margin and point. Seed one, dry, deeply 

 pitted, with a deep umbilicus on one side. 



This species in the spadix is allied to C. tenuis, Roxburgh, 

 but the flowers seem to be dioicous, judging from the re- 

 mains, neither have the females the same form. The spikes 

 also are rigid, very spreading, without any tendency to be 

 recurved or deflexed. The leaves are widely different, in 

 situation resembling those of C. fasciculatus and gracilis, to 

 which last it appears to be allied. 



(25.) 15. C.floribundus,* (n. sp.) spinis petioli (pinniferi) 

 aculeatis solitariis longis uncinato-deflexis, pinnis fasciculatis 

 lineari-lanceolatis (long, subpedalibus, lat. 11-12 linealibus) 



* C. pennicillatus, pinnis aequidistantibus lanceolatis 7-9 veniis margine in- 

 tegris (esetosis) apice setoso-pennicillatis. 



C. pennicillatus. Roxb. Fl. lnd. 3. p. 781. Mart. Palm. p. 210. 



Hab. — Forests, Pinang. Mr. Wm. Roxburgh. 



I subjoin Roxburgh's notice of this plant, which in the shape, venation and 

 tufted points of the pinnae, and especially their entire smooth margins, appears to 

 present sufficient peculiarities to enable it to be identified. 



"Scandent. Leaflets thirty-four pair, regularly alternate except the terminal 

 two, which are united, lanceolate, seven to nine-nerved ; margins entire and 

 smooth, a pencil of bristles from the apex of each. Sheaths flagelliferous. 



It is more slender than the common ratan, and less so than C. gracilis." 



