86 The Palms of British East India. 



Fruits more exposed than the flowers, the spathes being gaping, 

 and at length these falling off, quite exposed, surrounded at the base 

 by the calyx and corolla, (the latter being generally split) terminat- 

 ed by the persistent base of style about the size and shape of a large 

 marble ; scales light tawny colour with white edges, central furrow 

 narrow, on either side of which the scale is more than usually gib- 

 bous. Seed (immature) erect, the covering abounding with resin 

 of a rich blood colour. Albumen horny- cartilaginous, very much 

 ruminate. Embryo basilar. 



This seems to me distinct from Dsemonorops melano- 

 chsetes, Bl.* by the large leaves, the broad glaucous pinnae 

 the large spines of the outer spathes, and their beaks equal- 

 ling or exceeding them in length. 



40. (30) C. intermedins , (n. sp.) aculeis petiolorum dorsali- 

 bus uncinatis, spinis et aculeis marginalibus inaequalibus infra 

 pinnas superadditis, pinnis lineari-lanceolatis (long. 15-un- 

 cialibus, lat. uncialibus) Supra carina una cum vel absque 

 setis et venis 2 lateralibus setigeris, subtus vena media seti- 

 gera, spadicis pedunculo inermi, spatbis externis spinis longis 

 gracilibus deflexis armata, rostro longissimo. 



Hab. — Malacca. Sent by E. Fernandez, with the name 

 Rotang Chrysa. ? 



* C. Melanocheetes, spinis petioli dorsalibus lanceolato-subulatis aliis setifor- 

 mibus marginalibus supra additis, pinnis eequidistantibus linearibus (long: sub- 

 pedalibus lat. 3-4-linealibus) secus venam mediam et raargines setoso-aculeolatis, 

 spadicis pedunculo (infra spathas) spinis armato, spathis breviter rostratis extimis 

 spinis parvis armatis.* 



" Palmijuncus niger. Rumph. Hb. Amb. 5. p. 101. t. 52. Calamus niger, Willd. 

 Sp. PL 2. p. 203. Lam. Enc. 6. p. 306." Dsemonorops melanochsetes. Bl. in 

 Syst. Veg. ed. Schultes. l.pt. 2. p. 1333. Mart. Palm. p. 198. t. 117, 125./. 1. 



Hab.— Penang. Wallich. 



The spathes in plate 125, the only one 1 have seen, are represented as partially 

 open, in which respect it approaches C. nutantiflorus and Jenkinsianus. The 

 pinnae are said to be 3-4 feet long. 



* Char, e Martio. 



