340 The Palms of British East India. 



Hab. — Bunipa in the great valley of Nipal, at an elevation 

 of about 5000 feet above the level of the sea. Newar name, 

 Tuggu. (Wallich.) 



Descr.* — Trunk 20 feet high, irregularly annulate, of irregular 

 diameter. Crown haemisphaerical, rather thin. Leaves 5 feet long. 

 Petioles 2J-3 feet long, unarmed, generally partly twisted. La- 

 mina reniform-orbicular or almost orbicular, concave, (rarely con- 

 vex) 2 feet 2 inches long, about 4 feet broad; lacinise about 75, 

 conduplicato-canaliculate, glaucous underneath, with nodding ends ; 

 the central ones the broadest, about 16 inches long, obtusely 

 bilobed to the depth of \ or 1 inch ; lateral ones about a foot long, 

 linear acuminate, very narrow, acutely bilobed ; intermediate ones 

 16 inches long, and acutely bilobed. 



Spadices 3-5 feet long, very much branched; furnished at the 

 base (and under each primary branch) with spathes: peduncle 

 about a foot long. Lowermost spathe 1-1 J foot long, two-edged, 

 semi-bifid at the apex: the third or fourth suffults a flower bearing 

 branch. Spikes 1-1 J inch long. Flowers minute, solitary or in 

 pairs : at the base of each a minute membranaceous bracte. Calyx 

 trifid ; lacinias ovato-triangular, sub-obtuse. Petals three times 

 larger than the calyx, ovato-orbicular, erecto- patent. Stamina as 

 long as the corolla. Anthers linear- oblong. Ovaria 3, ovate, 

 covered with a silky wool : the fertile ones have very short styles 

 terminated by a capitate stigma : the barren ones have longer styles 

 without any stigma. Berries shaped like an olive, but twice as 

 small, furrowed slightly along on one side : yellowish, sprinkled 

 with adpressed dry squamules. Seed erect, of the size of a coffee 

 seed : ventral face with a depression, filled with cellular substance ; 

 dorsal convex. Albumen cartilaginous-horny, horse -shoe-shaped on 

 a transverse section. Embryo at the centre of the dorsal face. 



This elegant Palm thrives tolerably well in the H. C. gardens 

 in shady raised spots. The figure in the PL As. Rar. {loc. 

 cit.) improved from a native drawing of a garden specimen 



* From living plants in the H. C. Botanic Gardens, inflorescence and fruit 

 chiefly from Martius, Palm. loc. cit. 



