98 The Palms of British East India. 



datis, petalis e basi lineari acuminatissimis, fructibus glo- 

 bosis, squamarum apicibus longis persistentibus fimbriatis- 

 simis. 



Hab. — Upper Assam. 



Descr.* — The specimens of the spadix are larger, the branches 

 very ferruginous, 2-3J feet long. Spathes 2^-3 inches long, shape 

 not ascertained from their being much lacerated and split, and part- 

 ly deficient. 



Fruit (when dry,) of a rich ferruginous brown colour, 11-12 lines 

 in diameter, surrounded at the base by a calyx of three ovate -oblong 

 sepals and as many petals, which are very long and acuminate from 

 a linear base, terminated by a style tripartite almost to the base 

 with subulate connivent branches ; one-celled, very villous from the 

 highly ciliate, fimbriate, split, recurved points of the scales. Seed 

 similar to that of the succeeding, but a little larger. Albumen 

 cartilaginous, solid, its tissue radiating from the centre. Embryo 

 basilar. 



I have under the succeeding species noted the differences 

 by which this appears to be distinguishable. The fruit is 

 a good deal like that of P. elongata, judging from Marthas' 

 figure,! but the scales are so fimbriate, that it has quite a 

 woolly appearance. 



48. (3) P. Khasiyana, (n. sp.) pinnis spathis ob- 



ovatis apicem versus obcuneatis, sepalis (fl. faem.) sub-dis- 

 tinctis planis glabris, petalis e basi lanceolata acuminatis, 

 fructibus rostrato-cuspidatis, squamarum fimbriatarum api- 

 cibus deciduis. 



Hab. — Khasiya Hills. 



* Specimens of a spadix in fruit marked by Dr. Wallich as "Malacca, speci- 

 mens received from Major Jenkins, March 1840, from Upper Assam." 

 f Palinae. loc. cit. 



