96 The Palms of British East India. 



46. (1) P. elongata, pinnis lineari-lanceolatis (long. 2-3 pe- 

 dalibus lat. 2-3 uncialibus), spathis (ramorum florig :) ambitu 

 rotundatis, calycis cupuliformis dentibus brevibus mucronatis 

 villoso-ciliatis, petalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, squamis 

 (fructus) margine fimbriato-denticulatis. 



P. elongata, Mart, et Blume in Romer et Schultes Syst. 

 Veget. 7. pt. 2. p. 1333, obs. 2. Martins. Palm. p. 199. t. 

 114. 116. Calamus maximus. Reinw. auct. Martii. 



Hab. — In forests near the sea-shore at Koondoor, Ma- 

 lacca, and generally perhaps in the interior. Malayan name 

 Rotang Oonar* Rotang Dahown. 



Descr. — A gigantic climbing species, very striking when in fruit 

 from the massive pendulous rich brown spadices. Stem in the lower 

 part almost as thick as a man's leg. Sheaths of the leaves much 

 armed, (especially along the margins of the mouth,) with stout spines 

 of the usual characters. Leaves with the flagelli about 20 feet long. 

 Petiole armed on the under face with fascicled subulate deflexed spines 

 varying in number from two to four, these in the flagellus become 

 more numerous, stronger and hooked prickles. Pinnce distant, arched 

 downwards, linear-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, very acuminate, 

 the longest three feet in length, in breadth 2-3 inches coriaceous, 

 pale- green above, glaucous below. 



Spadix axillary. Peduncle covered with imbricate sheathing 

 spathes, the limbs short, slightly spreading. From the axilla of each 

 of these rises a long (2£ feet) pendulous tail-like branch imbricated 

 with similar but smaller spathes. The branches are all secund. 

 Spathes distichous, amplexicaul, nearly round, If inches broad, 

 acute, coriaceous, brown, very concave : from the middle to the apex 

 the outline is more angular. f 



* Oonar, Mr. Westerhout informs me, is the Malay appellation for the flagelli 

 of these Palms. 



f Martius's figures represent the spathes of the male and female alike; in the 

 female specimens before me though the flowers are open, the spathes are so closely 

 imbricated and so concave that the branches are strictly subulate in form. 



