316 The Palms of British East India. 



Flowers small, sessile, collected in little bundles over the ultimate 

 divisions of the panicle, pale yellow, small, rather offensive. Calyx 

 small, 3-toothed. Petals three, oblong, reflexed, shorter than the 

 stamina. Filaments six, broad at the base, and there united, toward 

 the apex slender and incurved. Anthers ovate. Germ superior, 

 round-ovate, 3-lobed, 3-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached 

 to the bottom of its cell. Style short, 3-grooved. Stigma 3-lobed. 

 Berry globular, the size of a musket ball, olive-coloured, smooth 

 when fresh, but it soon becomes dry and wrinkled, 1 -celled ; the 

 two abortive lobes of the germ are always to be found at the base. 

 Seed solitary, subglobular. Integuments apparently two, but they 

 are firmly united, and of a friable texture ; the exterior one pale 

 yellowish brown, and veined ; the interior one brown, and adhering 

 firmly to the perisperm. Perisperm conform to the seed, of a hard, 

 horny texture, and a pale gray colour. Embryo simple, short, cylin- 

 dric, lodged near the apex of the perisperm." (Roxb. o. c. I. c.J 



To this I have to add that the petioles are much more 

 slender than in the other species, their sides marked with 

 oblique furrows, corresponding with the teeth, which are 

 very large. They separate a little above the base : this 

 afterwards becomes longitudinally split, and long afterwards 

 falls off. The lamina describes nearly a complete circle ; 

 length 5-6 feet, breadth 15 feet; the posterior pinnae do not 

 meet, much less overlap. Lacinise about 85, linear-ensiform, 

 much narrower than in the others : the central are about 3 

 feet long, the lateral and intermediate about 3§ feet ; the 

 posticous ones towards the base present denticulate margins. 



This Palm will be at once recognised by its black spirally 

 marked trunk. From the other species of Corypha it is 

 abundantly distinct by its long, obviously spirally placed, 

 exauriculate petioles, and by the smaller, dark green, flat 

 lamina with narrow, linear-ensiform segments. The fruit is 

 also smaller. 



According to Roxburgh's drawing, the inflorescence of this 

 is so dense that no part of the spadix or spathes is visible, 



