80 The Palms of British East India. 



duabus setigeris, spathis inermibus acuminatissimis secundis, 

 pedunculo spadicis (masculi) supra-decompositi inermi, ramis 

 nutantibus dense ferrugineo-furfuraceis, spatharum (secunda- 

 riarum) laminis majusculis, calycis dentibus obtusis villoso- 

 penicillatis quam corolla sub-duplo brevioribus. 



Hab. — Assam, Major Jenkins. 



Descr.* — Petiole in the pinniferous part armed with ternate 

 prickles. Pinnce equidistant, linear, about a foot long, five lines broad, 

 upper surface with one central carina bearing small bristles, and 

 a lateral vein on each side with long bristles ; under surface smooth ; 

 margins with many appressed bristles. 



Spadices about two feet long. Peduncle unarmed, apparently united 

 to the neighbouring sheath, compressed, about three inches long to 

 the first flower-bearing branch, below which it presents one annulate 

 scar. Spathes all pushed as it were to one side, the lowest about 

 eighteen inches long, one-keeled along the centre, all very much 

 acuminated, and considerably longer than the spadix, (the tips about 

 level-topped) coriaceous, striate, chesnut coloured internally, exter- 

 nally glaucescent, much flatter than in almost any other species of 

 the section. Flower-bearing branches each suffulted by one of the 

 above spathes, very much branched, 4-6 inches long, towards the 

 time of expansion nodding and secund. 



Spikes like the branches sprinkled with dark coloured tomentum, 

 about an inch long, very flexuose with a single flower at each 

 flexure. 



Flowers distichous, sprinkled with tomentum. Bract e amplectent, 

 with a short membranous limb, the margins more or less ciliate, and 

 the apex often tufted. Cup bidentate, membranous, about three times 

 shorter than the calyx : margins ciliate, and teeth tufted. Calyx 

 oblong, very coriaceous and much striate, three-toothed ; teeth 

 obtuse, with tufts of brown wool. Corolla oblong, one-third longer 

 than the calyx, divided almost to the base into three oblong obtuse 

 segments. Stamina 6 ; filaments subulate, distinct, reddish ; anthers 



* Specimens: tUree male spadices, and a portion of a young leaf. 



