84 The Palms of British East India. 



if, as I suspect, the spathes of this species are spreading. 

 The upper part of the spadix might almost be mistaken for 

 the same part of C. ramosissimus, and only differs from the 

 same part of the section Platyspathae in the greater degree 

 of contraction. 



39. (29) C. grandis, (n. sp.) aculeis petiolorum dorsalibus 

 uncinatis cum marginalibus (infra pinnas) inaequalibus inter- 

 dum spiniformibus, pinnis glaucescentibus lineari-lanceolatis 

 (long. 18-20 uncialibus lat. \\ uncialibus) supra 1-carinatis, 

 vena media utrinque et margine cum vel absque setis, spathae 

 extimae spinis planis latis deflexis, rostro aequante, calyce 

 subintegro margine ciliato, fructibus globosis. 



Hab. — Malacca. Sent by E. Fernandez under the names 

 Rotang Sumamboo, and Rotang Chry ? 



Descr.* — A stout Palm, diameter of the stem (including the 

 sheaths) about two inches. Sheaths armed with broad, flat, generally 

 very obliquely seriate, dark brown or black, spreading, unequal 

 spines. Leaves 15-16 feet, in length. Petiole swollen at its in- 

 sertion, stout ; in the lower two feet without pinnae, plano-convex, 

 armed along the centre of the convex face towards the base with 

 a good many scattered rather deflexed small prickles ; these upwards 

 become hooked ; along the margins they present a few broad 

 flat short thorns pointing downwards, and within the margins a 

 number of still shorter, generally solitary, ascending thorns; the 

 pinniferous part, which is 6-9 feet long, armed below with strong 

 hooked prickles generally in threes, these are continued into the 

 flagellus. Pinned alternate, equidistant, of a whitish glaucous 

 aspect, linear-lanceolate, 18-20 inches in length, one inch and a 

 quarter in breadth, acuminate at the apex into a long awl-shaped 

 point, 1-carinate above, without setae on either face or along the 

 margins, or with the midvein setigerous on both sides, as well as 

 the margins. 



* Specimen : an entire upper part of a male and female plant in flower, and 

 several spadices in fruit. 



