332 The Palms of British East India. 



rium turbinate, toward the base smooth and tripartible, above entire 

 and covered with fuscous villi. Ovula solitary, erect, anatropous. 

 Style cylindric, rather shorter than the ovarium, hollow at the apex. 

 Stigmata three, minute, on a level with the annulus. 



Fruit (immature) subbaccate, sitting on the stout pedicel-like 

 tube of the calyx: surrounded at the base by the perianth, and 

 annulus, apiculate by the style, one seeded. Endocarp thin, subos- 

 seous. 



This, judging from Schultes' description,* appears to be 

 somewhat allied to Blume's L. ramosa, quoted by Martius 

 under L. spinosa. 



It is very distinct from the other species known to me 

 by its inflorescence, which is so divided and short as to be 

 almost a thyrsiform panicle, its short trunk but otherwise 

 large stature, and dark leaves, in the orbicular spreading of 

 the divisions of which it resembles L. peltata. 



60. (7.) L. triphylla, (n. sp.) nana, subacaulis, pinnis tri- 

 bus pluridentatis (dentibus marginali excepto emarginatis), 

 lateralibus oblique cuneatis praemorsis, terminali abrupte 

 praemorsa, spadice foliis breviori vix spithamaeo, floribus 

 paucis solitariis, fructibus pisiformibus processu intranti 

 curvato. 



Hab. — In dense forests, Ayer Punnus, (Rhim,) Malacca. 

 Only one specimen was procured. 



Descr. — A very dwarf Palm, the whole height not exceeding 

 2J feet ; the stem being about 3-4 inches long. Leaves 1 -2 feet 

 long. Petioles plano-convex or canaliculate, armed below the mid- 

 dle with straight or somewhat hooked, deflexed, rather long prickles. 

 Bete well developed. Lamina of three cuneate pinnce, the lateral 

 ones obliquely praemorse, the terminal (which is 5-6 inches long, 

 2i wide) truncate : as many short teeth as there are carinas, all 



* Syst. Vfig. ed Schultes. 



