The Palms of British East India. 327 



Major Jenkins informs me, " the leaves of the Chattah 

 Pat are used for the same purposes as those of the Toko, 

 but are much coarser, and only made use of by the lower 

 orders. The demand for them is very great, scarcely a 

 single ploughman, cow-keeper or cooly but has his Jhapee 

 or Chattah made of Chattah Pat." 



57. (4) L. acutifida, trunco gracili, foliis flabelliformibus, 

 pinnis 15-20 subaequilatis anguste cuneatis tricarinatis, later- 

 alibus apice obliquis inaequaliter 3-4-lobis, terminali 4-5-lobo, 

 intermediis trilobis lobulis (lateralibus exceptis) bipartitis 

 sinubus acutis, spadice folia subsequante cum spicis floribus- 

 que fusco-pubescenti-hirto, ramis simplicibus vel bipartitis, 

 spathis bilobis sericeo argenteove paleaceis, floribus inferi- 

 oribus binatis superioribus solitariis, petalis calyce obconico 

 ad medium tripartito longioribus, seminis pisiformis processu 

 intrante cylindraceo rectiusculo. 



L. acutifida, Mart. Palm. p. 237. t. 135, iii. iv. (excl. syn. 

 Roxb.) , 



Hab. — Penang, whence I have specimens from Mr. Lewes, 

 and Dr. Oxley. Malayan name Plass tikooss. 



Descr.* — A small miniature Palm. Trunk 3-5 feet high, (some- 

 times 15-20 feet, Mr. Lewes), 10-11 lines in diameter, about 22 

 lines in diameter at the base, marked with incomplete rings, to which 

 portions of the base of the petioles adhere. 



Petioles in some of the specimens 3^-4 feet long, in others (and 

 this seems the natural state) scarcely 18 inches long, piano- convex, 

 armed towards the base along the margins with tooth-shaped, 

 straight or sub-deflexed short prickles. Rete brown, copious, pro- 

 duced upwards into a long brown membranous ligula. Pinnae 

 15-20, disposed in a subpeltate manner, generally linear-cuneate, 



* Specimens, three entire small plants and several specimens of inflorescence 

 and a few ripe seeds. 



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