90 The Palms of British East India. 



sstigerous, under face with the same, or with the central only 

 bearing a few bristles ; margins bristly. Spadix (with the spathes) 

 narrow oblong ; peduncle rather slender, somewhat armed. Outer 

 spathe with its beak, which is about half the length, about fourteen 

 inches long, bicarinate, armed (except the beak) with thorns like those 

 of the sheaths, the upper ones rather the longest. Beak quite flat 

 with a tendency to become a cirrhus. Second spathe obsoletely 

 bicarinate, with a very few small thorns about the middle of its back. 

 Branches of the spadix pressed into a thick oblong mass ; lower 

 divisions decompound. 



Spikes slender, an inch long, very flexuose, with a single flower at 

 each flexure, sprinkled with rust- coloured scurf. A small amplectent 

 bracte, and a cup to each flower. Flowers 8-10 to each spike, small, 

 oblique. Calyx oblong- cylindric, three times longer than the cup, 

 with three small teeth. Corolla 3 -times as long as the calyx, divided 

 nearly to the base into three erect segments. Stamina six ; filaments 

 united into a cup ; anthers linear-sagittate. Pollen yellow. A rudi- 

 ment of a Pistillum hidden in the cup of the filaments. 



This is a very distinct species in all respects, as well 

 by the armature of the sheaths and petioles and outer 

 spathe, as by the narrow short pinnae. 



** Erectce. Petioli foliorum superiorum tantum flagelliferi. 



43. (33) C. monticola, (n. sp.)spinis vaginarum longis sub- 

 ulatis deflexis, petiolorum (superiorum) marginalibus in- 

 sequalibus et aculeis dorsalibus uncinatis, pinnis sequidis- 

 tantibus linearibus (long. 10-18 uncialibus lat. 6-8 linealibus) 

 supra carina et venis 2 lateralibus setigeris subtus glabris, 

 spatha extima secus carinas duas spinis gracilibus deflexis 

 armata. 



Hab. — Subgregarious in thick Forests on Gonoong Mir- 

 ing, an off-set of Mt. Ophir, at an altitude of 1500—2000 

 feet. 



