70 The Palms of British East India. 



length, lowermost of the lowest branches 4-5 inches long, spreading, 

 angular. 



Fruits on shortish stalks, uppermost of each spike nearly sessile, 

 spreading, oblong-ovate, length six lines, breadth three and a half, 

 attenuated into a short mammilla terminated by the base of the 

 style, surrounded at the base by one envelope ! divided below the 

 middle into three oblong segments, between this and the fruit itself 

 is a short cup variously lacerated, and outside at the apex of the 

 stalk, two bractes, the outer one subannuliform. Scales whitish, 

 cartilaginous, with pale margins, the central furrows deep, and con- 

 secutive. 



Seed (immature,) oblong. Albumen ruminate. 



This is probably the plant of Rumphius, quoted by most 

 authors as C. verus; it resembles it in the length of the 

 spadices, the want of a spathe when in fruit, the distance of 

 the annulus or cicatrix of this from the axilla, and its 

 suffulting the lowest branch of the inflorescence. 



It is, as may be supposed, very closely allied to the C. 

 platyacanthus of Martius,* from which however it differs in 

 the very long two-edged peduncles of the spadix, the want 

 of spathes when in fruit, in which points Martius's plant 

 differs from that of Rumph. 



It is the only one I have yet seen of this section in which 

 all the spathes appear to be deciduous or in which the fruit 

 is only surrounded by one envelope, the corolla being appa- 

 rently for the most part deciduous. In this again it differs 

 from Martius's plant. 



From the preceding to which it is closely allied, it is 

 known at once by the absence of the remarkable very long 

 spines to the margins of the mouths of the sheaths, and by 

 the spadix and fruits. 



33, (23) C. Hystrix, (n. sp.) aculeis vaginarum seriatis vel 

 sparsis marginum longissimis spithamaeis vel pedalibus, petioli 



* Palm. p. 206. t. 160 f. i. ii. lii. 



