92 The Palms of British East India. 



rianth globose, shortly cuspidate by the style, of the size of an ordi- 

 nary marble ; scales tawny with a dark brown intro- marginal line : 

 longitudinal furrows as it were continuous. Seed (immature,) erect ; 

 tegument fleshy. 



*#* Chcetospathoe ; spathis externis setts barbatis. Folia 

 suprema (floralia ?) tantum flagellifera. 



44. (34) C. calicarpuSf (n. sp.) scandens ? petiolis infra 

 pinnas pedalibus spinis marginalibus longis et aculeis dor- 

 salibus armatis, intra pinnas aculeis dorsalibus palmatis, pin- 

 nis sequidistantibus linearibus (long. 12-13 uncialibus lat. 4-5 

 linearibus) supra carina 1 et venis 2 setigeris subtus vena 

 centrali tantum setigera, calyce (fl : faem :) oblongo-ovato bre- 

 viter tridentato. 



Hab. — Malacca, where the male appears to be known 

 under the name Rotang Chochoor Minia, the female under 

 that of Rotang Chochoor. 



Descr.* — Scandent? Diameter of the stem (with the sheaths) 

 about one inch. Sheaths covered with rust-coloured scurf, and high- 

 ly armed with very numerous, long, ascending, rather slender, very 

 unequal spines, generally disposed in series. Petiole below the 

 pinnae about a foot long, channelled convex, armed towards the 

 base, where it is not gibbous or puckered, with spines like those 

 of the sheaths ; towards the pinnae they become much fewer and are 

 chiefly confined to the margin, those of the dorsum more or less 

 aculeiform. In the pinniferous part which is 5^-6 feet long, the 

 prickles are confined to the lower convex surface, are hooked and 

 generally ternate or palmate ; these are continued into the flagellus. 

 Pinnce equidistant, approximate, very numerous, linear, 12-13 inches 

 long, 4-5 lines broad, distinctly acuminated into a long bristle : up- 

 per surface with the central carina and 2 lateral veins setigerous ; 

 under surface with more numerous smaller bristles along the mid- 



* Specimens : entire upper parts of male and female plants in flower and fruit. 



