60 The Palms of British East India. 



This appears to me a very distinct species, it may be 

 taken perhaps as a passage to Ceratolobus. At first sight 

 it is not altogether unlike C. gracilis of Roxburgh. 



*#* Scandentes. Petioli flagelliferi. 



27. (17) C. latifolius, spinis vaginarum subverticillatis, pe- 

 tiolis aculeatis, pinnis fasciculatis lanceolatis (long. 16-unci- 

 alibus lat. 3-uncialibus) 5-7 veniis supra convexis utrinque 

 esetosis, spadice supra-decomposito spathisque aculeatis, co- 

 rolla calycem triplo excedente.* 



C. latifolius. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3. p. 775. Icones. Suppt. 5. 

 /. 17. Mart. Palmce. p. 208. 



Katu-tsjurel. Hort. Malab. xii. t. 65. fid. Roxb. MSS. 



" Korak Bet of the natives of Chittagong, where it is indigenous, 

 and runs over trees to an immense length. When freed from the 

 sheaths of the leaves it is about as thick as a slender walking cane. 

 Plants introduced by Mr. W. Roxburgh, in 1801, into the Botanic 

 Garden, flowered for the first time in November and December 1809, 

 when they had attained to the height of about forty feet. 



Spines numerous on the stems, sub-verticilled, very large, flat and 

 divaricate. On the flagelli fascicled and recurved. Leaves alternate, 

 pinnate, from six to twelve feet long including the whip or flagellus, 

 which terminates the common petiole as in many of Rumphius's 

 figures ; and the leaf of his Palmijuncus equestris, vol. v. t. 56. is 

 tolerably like that of my plant, but their size is very different. 

 Leaves in seven or eight remote fascicles, of three or four each, 

 broad-lanceolate, very erect, many-nerved, smooth on both sides ; 

 with the margins triflingly spinous-dentate, and the upper surface 

 always convex, from ten to eighteen inches long, and from three to 

 six broad. Male. Spadix supra- decompound ; all the divisions bi- 

 farious. Flowers small, of a greenish yellow, each sitting in a cup 

 composed of two concave sheathing bractes. Calyx 3-toothed. 

 Corol 3-parted. Filaments six, inserted on the imperforated base of 



* Char: ex Icone Roxburghiana citata. 



