354 The Palms of British East India. 



nutantibus, spathis antice aperientibus, spadicibus exsertis, 

 fructibus ovatis, embryone hilum versus. 



P. paludosa, Roxb. Hort. Bengh. p. 73. Fl. Ind. 3. p. 789. 

 Icones. 15. t. 33, (indifferent.) 



Hab. — The Sunderbuns, where it forms a considerable 

 portion of those impenetrable woods which completely cover 

 that extensive tract of country, {Roxburgh.) Along the 

 Salueen, between Amherst and Moalmain. Penang, {Mr. 

 Lewes,) where it is known by the name Dangsa. Sansc. 

 name Hintala; Bengal. Hintal. 



Descr — The specimens in the Botanic Gardens form very elegant 

 impenetrable tufts. Trunk 12-15 feet high, 3J inches in diameter, an- 

 nulate at the base, otherwise covered with the brown, retiferous, armed 

 petioles. Leaves gracefully spreading, 8-10 feet long. Petiole covered 

 with scurf, brownish-glaucescent, in the lower 3 feet bearing irregu- 

 larly spreading, hard, brown, triangular, channelled, rather long spines. 

 Pinnce bifarious, solitary, spreading, then curved downwards, notrigid, 

 2 feet long, 8 lines wide, exceedingly acuminate, bifarious, condu- 

 plicate at the base, otherwise flat, underneath glaucous-caesious, the 

 lowest longest and narrowest. Spadix {male) about a foot long. 

 Spathes coriaceous, bicarinate, opening anticously, orange brownish ; 

 keels with irregular edges, that of the spadix about equalling it : of 

 the female half as short. Flowers yellow, more distant than in the 

 other species. Calyx cup-shaped, less regularly three toothed than 

 in P. sylvestris or farinifera. Petals three. Filaments six, short. 



Spadix (female) about li foot long, flowers greenish. Calyx as 

 in the male. Petals roundish, concave. Sterile stamina 6. Ova- 

 ria three, styles recurved, longer than in the other species. 



Spadix of the fruit 3-4 feet long, erect, yellowish orange, branch- 

 ed at the apex. Spikes of the same colour, generally several to- 

 gether, with cartilaginous thickened bases, about a foot long, nodding, 

 rarely branched. Fruit sessile, on thickened knobs, spreading or 

 pointing downwards, first yellowish, then red, lastly black-purple, 

 oval; 6-7 lines long, 3-4 wide, with a small oblique apiculus at 



