88 The Palms of British East India. 



fertis linearibus (long. 13-15 uncialibus lat. 5S linealibus) 

 supra carina una et venis 2 setigeris subtus setis nullis, 

 spathse extimae spinis planis subulatis gracilibus. 



Hab. — Penang. Sent by Mr. Lewes, with the name 

 Kichum. 



Descr.* — Less stout than the preceding, the diameter of the 

 stem, including the sheaths, being scarcely more than an inch. 

 Sheaths armed with solitary or seriate, long, flat, black spines ; mar- 

 gins revolute. Petiole much swollen at the base, there armed with 

 scattered, deflexed shortish thorns ; below the pinnae about a foot 

 long, plano-convex, armed along the back with a few solitary 

 hooked prickles, along the margins with short, conical- subulate, 

 solitary, binate or ternate thorns. In the pinniferous parts obtusely 

 triangular, armed along the convex lower face with hooked and soli- 

 tary prickles upwards, gradually becoming palmate. Pinnce aequi- 

 distant, approximate^, linear, 13-15 inches long, 5-6 lines broad, 

 bristle-pointed, upper surface with one carina and a lateral vein on 

 either side setigerous ; under, smooth ; margins rough, with ap- 

 pressed bristles. 



Spadices oblong, including the beak of the outer spathe 6-9 inches 

 long; peduncle below the spathes armed with flat spines. Outer 

 spathe bicarinate, armed with rather weak, deflexed, long black 

 spines, often so slender as to become bristly. Second spathe with 

 about two rows of slender thorns ; the rest unarmed. 



The spadix is scarcely distinguishable from that of the preced- 

 ing, but in the specimen the branches are more slender, and less 

 scurfy. 



This is extremely akin to the preceding species, the 

 thorns however of the lower naked part of the petioles are 

 different, those of the margins much shorter and fewer. 

 The pinnae also differ. 



* Specimens : an entire upper part of a female plant. 



