338 The Palms of British East India* 



species is more remarkable than perhaps any other,* would 

 have escaped Rumph altogether. F. Bauer's beautiful fi- 

 guref of L. inermis gives, excepting as regards the pendu- 

 lous segments of the leaves and annulation of the trunk, a 

 good idea of the habit of this Palm. I am not aware of its 

 being applied to any use. 



CHAM.EROPS. 



Linn. Mus. Cliff, p. 10. Gen. PI. ed. 6ta. 1764. p. 571. No. 

 1219. ed. Schreb.p. 772. No. 1688. Jussieu. Gen. p. 39. Lam. 

 Enc. 4. p. 709. (Palmiers) t. 900. Syst. PL ed. Schultes. 2. p. 

 xciii. 1488. Endl. Gen. p. 253. No. 1759. Mart. Progr. 

 p. 9. Palm. p. 247. t. 120. 124-5. PL As. Rar. 3. t. 211. 

 Andrews. Bot. Rep. t. 599. Bot. Mag. t. 2152. Lambt. in 

 Linn. Trans. 10. t. 8. 



Chamasriphes. Gaertn. Fruct. et. Sem. 1. p. 25. t. 9. 



Char. Gen. — Flores polygamo-mono-dioici. Calyx tripar- 

 tita. Corolla tripetala v. tripartita. Stamina 6-9, filamentis 



* L. sinensis, 20 pedalis, petiolis inermibus, foliorum lamina reniformi-flabelli- 

 formi diametro 5-pedali, segments 80-85 ad medium bipartitissubulato-acunainatis- 

 simis pendulis, fructibus subolivaeformibus inaequilateralibus. 



L. sinensis, Mart. Palm. p. 240. t. 146, 1-11. 



Hab. — Southern China, Martius. Cultivated in these gardens under the name 

 Livistonia ? Mauritiana; said to have been introduced from the Mauritius in 1821. 



The largest specimen is 20-25 feet high, with a stout obscurely annulated trunk. 

 Crown round. ^Leaves much plicate, and also conduplicate along the cen- 

 tre, the lateral segments which are much the narrowest 2 feet or 2-2 inches 

 long, their divisions about a foot long. Spadices smaller, but otherwise much like 

 those of L. spectabilis. Flowers white, of an unpleasant smell, generally 4 to- 

 gether. Calyx with three rounded teeth with membranous margins. Corolla longer 

 than the calyx, divided below the middle into three cordate erect segments. 

 Fruit-bearing spadix nodding, with subsecund branches. Berries dull blue, 

 oblong, 7 lines long, and 4£ wide. Seed oblong, of a greyish colour, on a longi- 

 tudinal section reniform, intrant process subcentral. Embryo opposite to this, a 

 little below the centre of the dorsal face, looking downwards. 



This approaches in the acuminated pendulous segments of the leaves to L. spec- 

 tabilis, but otherwise is quite distinct. It is not mentioned in the Hortus Mauriti- 

 anus. A. D. 1837. 



f Mart. Palm, t. 145. 



