The Palms of British East India. 4G3 



(anaclasmus aberrans.) 

 80. (11) A. paradoxa, (n. sp.) fruticosa, nana, foliis pinna- 

 tim fissis, pinnis inasqualibus oblique acuminatis, spadice 

 simplici, fructu subulato curvato (albo) albumine aequabili. 



Habit. — Dense forests near the base of Goonoong Miring, 

 Mount Ophir ; in fruit February, 1841. 



Descr. — Stem slender, 5-7 feet high, 3-4 lines in diameter, annulate, 

 upwards roughish with ferruginous down. Crown of 6-8 leaves. Leaves 

 1£ foot long, 8 inches broad; petiole with a long, coriaceous, striate, 

 ferruginously downy sheath, above which it is channelled, lower naked 

 part about 6 inches long ; lamina pinnate, pimice 6-8 inches long, and 

 very obliquely cuspidato-acuminate, very unequal, with 3 or 4 or many 

 keels ; terminal unequal at the base, bifurcate to the middle, irregularly 

 toothed, teeth bifid sometimes split. 



Spadix issuing from the stem below the crown, simple, 4-5 inches 

 long, obtuse, pendulous, glaucescent. Fruit distichous, suffulted by a 

 minute but broad bracte, and by a double cup, (calyx and corolla) 

 of six round imbricate broad scales. They are of a white colour, obtusely 

 subulate, 8 lines long, \\ diameter in the widest part or just above the 

 base, curved in shape, and of a fibrous substance. Seed one, conform ; 

 tegument very thin, membrano-cellular ; raphe of three fascicles, the 

 central one reflexed near the apex of the seed, becoming confluent with 

 the longer of the lateral vessels ; the shorter one reflexed about the 

 middle of the dorsum. Albumen solid, horny, slightly furrowed along 

 the course of the vessels. Embryo minute, basilar, conical. 



The specimen is scarcely distinguishable, except in the 

 form and structure of the fruit and seeds, from A. disticha. 

 That structure however is so different as to suggest the pro- 

 bability of its constituting a new genus. 



Sect. III.— EUOPLUS. 



81. (12) A. tigillaria, arborea, pinnis bipedalibus pendu- 

 lis, spatha exteriore pedunculoque armatis, interiore sub- 

 inermi, floribus distantibus, ssepe 1 fagmineo 1 masculo, petalis 

 ovatis in setas subito attenuatis, fructibus globuli sclopeti 

 minoris magnitudine. 



