62 The Palms of British East India. 



twelve inches long, one and three-quarters broad, five-keeled above, 

 with two lateral veins also slightly prominent ; a few bristles occa- 

 sionally on mid-keel ; margins rough with appressed bristle- shaped 

 teeth ; apex mucronate- cuspidate, smooth or somewhat hispid. 



Spadix two and a half feet long, nodding or curved, slender, 

 and thinly branched, where exposed plano-convex, convex face arm- 

 ed with short aculei. Spathes 3-4 inches long with short half-ovate 

 limbs, armed with scattered, irregular, straight or hooked aculei. 

 Branches attached just opposite the ends of the spathes, about a 

 span long, slender, slightly fiexuose, their lowermost spathes empty. 

 Spikes also inserted opposite the ends of their spathes, (which are 

 lax, clavate, generally armed with a few minute prickles,) about an 

 inch long, scorpioid. 



Flowers suffulted by an amplectent scale -shaped bracte, with a 

 short acute spreading limb, and by a short, obscurely three-tooth- 

 ed, rather large, oblong cup. Calyx short, stout, divided below 

 the middle into three oblong, broad segments. Corolla three times 



In evidence of the numbers of species of this genus, I may mention that I 

 have just received from Malacca a very distinct species of this section with the 

 name Rotang Jarnang, which is the true name of C. Draco. 



This species is distinguishable at once by the very small numerous deciduous 

 prickles of the sheaths, (the old sheaths are merely rough from their scars,) 

 the margins of the mouths of which are lacerate-fibrous. The petiole below the 

 pinnae is about a span long, armed with rather distant, stout, somewhat curved 

 prickles, marginal ones being also found here and there: at its junction with 

 the sheath very gibbous and transversely puckered ; also among the pinnae short 

 hooked prickles occur along the dorsum, being continued into the slender flagel- 

 lus. Pinnae alternate or distantly sub-opposite, linear-lanceolate, caudato-acu- 

 minate, 10-11 inches long, 6^-7 lines broad, above 1-carinate, carina and a lateral 

 vein on both sides bristly. 



For this the name C. micracantha may be proposed. 



Another species of the same section sent from Malacca, without any name, 

 presents green sheaths, with very few slightly curved white prickles. Total length 

 including flagellus four feet, of the pinniferous part twenty-one inches. Petioles pin- 

 niferous to the base, armed with a dorsal row of stout clawed prickles, which towards 

 the apex become binate or ternate with scattered ones intermixed. Pinna alter- 

 nating or fasciculate, lowermost with cartilaginous swollen insertions, and apparent- 

 ly deflexed, linear-lanceolate, 5-7 inches long, 5-7,lines broad, without bristles on 

 either side or with a very few on the carina above, acuminate with bristly points, 

 apparently glaucous underneath. 



This appears quite distinct. 



