460 The Palms of British East India. 



calyce minuto, petalis oblique cordatis acutis multoties 

 majoribus, staminibus numerosis, fl. faem. rudimentariis 0, 

 stigmate infundibuliformi, fructibus ovatis acutis undique 

 insertis. 



A. gracilis, Roxb. Icones. Suppt. 5. t. 64. FL Ind. S. p. 

 619. Buch. Hamilt. Comm. in Hb. Amb. Mem. Wern. Soc. 

 5. p. 311. Seaforthia gracilis. Mart. Palm. p. 185. 



Habt.— Hills ; Silhet, (where it is called Gooa, Supari 

 and Ramgoa), Chittagong and the East border of Bengal. 

 Roxburgh. Goalparah, Assam. Buchanan Hamilton. Assam, 

 where it is called Girgoa ? Major Jenkins. About Kujoodoo, 

 and Ningrew, Upper Assam, in fruit January 1839; Tea De- 

 putation. Himalayahs below Darjeeling, Seharanpore Col- 

 lectors. 



Descr.* — Stem slender, arundinaceous, about 8 feet high, 6-8 lines in 

 diameter, distinctly and distantly annulate. Crown of about 5-6 leaves, 

 which are about 3 feet long ; sheaths \ foot long ; naked part of the 

 petiole 3-4 inches long : pinnae about a foot long, 2-3 inches broad, very 

 and obliquely, acuminate, above 2-3-keeled : terminal obcuneate, about a 

 foot long, 6 inches broad across the sinus, truncate, bipartite to the 

 middle, about 8-cleft, divisions bidentate, emarginate, or entire and 

 acute. 



Spadices generally simple, sometimes twice or thrice branched, 

 6-9 inches long, compressed, bearing flowers on all sides. An annulate 

 scar just above the base of the peduncle, and a second at the com- 

 mencement of the pendulous part. 



Male flowers; calyx minute, 3-cornered. Petals three, obliquely 

 cordate, acute, many times longer than the calyx. Stamina numerous, 

 shorter than the corolla, 



Female flowers occupying large shallow niches with 3-toothed margins. 

 Sepals broad, rounded. Petals like the sepals, but smaller. No rudi- 

 mentary stamina. Ovarium ovate, 1 -celled; ovulum 1, erect. Style very 

 short, stout. Stigma large, infundibuliform, with ragged edges. (Roxb.) 



* Chiefly from specimens communicated by Major Jenkins ; spathes not seen. 



