The Palms of British East India* 73 



It appears to vary a good deal. I have specimens sent 

 by E. Fernandez from Malacca, under the name Rotang 

 Pusaisur, which is of smaller size, the spadix (with young 

 fruit) not a foot in length, and the flowers with two bracteoles. 

 But otherwise the plants are so much alike, and there ap- 

 pears to be so great a tendency to vary in the length of the 

 spadices, that I have thought it better to unite the two, par- 

 ticularly as so little is yet known of the real value of the 

 characters employed in the distinction of the species. 



The female spikes in flower resemble a good deal the 

 same parts of C. leptopus ; and it is to be remarked that the 

 lowermost spathe, though persistent for a long time, pre- 

 sents scarcely any sheath. 



In the armature of the petioles it may be considered 

 to approach in some degree to C. castaneus, the thorns 

 in both being often or generally solitary, and very unequal in 

 size. 



Rumph's figure of Palmijuncus verus angustifolius* gives, 

 with the exception of the want of the long spines, a good 

 idea of this species in fruit. 



Sect. III.— (PLATYSPATILE.) 



Huic sectioni pertinet Katu-tsjurel, Rheede. Hort. Mai. 12. 

 t. 65.f Roxburghio ad Calamum suum latifolium refertus. 



34. (24) C. leptopus, (n. sp.) spinis vaginarum seriatis, 

 petiolorum (flagellifer :) partis inferioris nudae seriatis, aculeis 

 partis pinniferse uncinatis, pinnis eequidistantibus lineari- 

 lanceolatis (long. 15-16-uncialibus lat. 12-lo-linealibus) cir- 

 rhoso-acuminatis supra 1-carinatis sub-glabris subtus saepius 



* Herb. Amb. v. t. 54. f. 2. C. verus of most authors. C. platyacanthos. Mart, 

 loc. cit. 



f This species may be distinguished as C. (Platyspatha) Rheedei, petiolis 

 spadicibusque aculeatis, pinnis distanter fasciculatis lineari-lanceolatis. 



