68 The Palms of British East India. 



with 3 veins prominent on the upper surface; of these the central 

 bears a few bristles towards the apex, under surface with two lateral 

 veins bristly, and also the central towards the apex ; margins except 

 the point without bristles or teeth. 



Spadix three feet long. Peduncle below the branches one foot and 

 a half long, flattened, not two-edged, with scars of a row of stout 

 marginal spines ; above the branches unarmed, at the insertion of 

 each branch swollen into knots. First scar of the spathes immediately 

 under the lowest branch. Branches all naked at the base, lowermost 

 a span long, angular, stout. Spikes spreading, suffulted by lanceolate 

 acute scarious bractes, stout, flexuose, 2-3 inches long : some of them 

 present subulate abortive branches. 



Flowers subsessile at the flexures, suffulted by a scale-shaped 

 annular bracte, and at the base surrounded by two annular alternat- 

 ing bracteoles, the inner of which is almost cup- shaped. 



Fruit subglobose, cuspidate by base of the style, surrounded by the 

 calyx, more or less split, and by the corolla much more split and 

 tending to be lacerate ; its segments oblong, twice as long as those 

 of the calyx ; scales large, pale, yellowish white with a narrow cen- 

 tral furrow and dark brown margins with whitish edges. Seed one, 

 (immature.) 



This species comes very close to the succeeding, and there 

 is a similarity in the Malayan name which is suspicious. Ne- 

 vertheless I have little doubt of its being quite distinct, espe- 

 cially from the smooth margins of the leaves, a very unusual 

 character, the flat, not two-edged peduncle armed strongly 

 along the edges, the swollen nodes, the stout, rigid, very 

 flexuose spikes, and the round fruit. 



The spikes call to mind by their flexures the spikes of 

 some Rottbotliaceous grasses. 



32. (22) C. longipes, (n. sp.) aculeis vaginarum planis seriatis 

 vel solitariis setis presertim versus margines interspersis, pe- 

 tioli (flagelliferi) infra pinnas paucis subulatis inequalibus, 

 inter pinnas uncinatis solitariis, pinnis aequidistantibus lineari- 



