The Palms of British East India. 477 



or less truncate, and ex-auriculate at the base), and the seeds. 

 It also disagrees in stature, in which respect it differs im- 

 portantly also from A. saccharifera, as it also does in the 

 solitary pinnae and veiny seeds. 



I believe it is the first species hitherto found on the conti- 

 nent of British India ; it is dedicated to Dr. Wight its dis- 

 coverer, to whom Indian Botany is so deeply indebted.* 



CARYOTA. 



Linn. (Mus. Cliff, p. 12.) Gen. PI. ed.6ta.p. 517. No. 1228. 

 ed. Schreb.p. 779. No. 1701. ed. Spreng. p. 449. No. 2218. 

 Juss. Gen. p. 38. Gaert. Sem. et. Fruct. \,p. 20. t. 7. Roxb. 

 Icones. 14. t. 80. Fl. Ind. 3. p. 624. Jacq. Frag. Bot. p. 20, 

 t. 12, /. 1. Lam. Illustr. (t. 897.) Mart. Progr. p. 18. 

 Palmae. p. 193. t. 107. 108, (bad.) t. 162, (bad.) (Tab. 5, 

 f. 1, tab. Y,/. 1, 2.) Endl. Gen. p. 248. No. 1735. 



Seguaster Major, Rumph. Hb. Amb. 1. p. 64. /. 14. 



Schunda-pana, Rheede Hort. Mai. 1. p. 15. t. 11. 



Char. Gek. — Flores monoici, fsemineus inter duos mas- 

 culos. Stamina indefinita. Bacca sub-exsucca, saepius mono- 

 sperma. Albumen ruminatum. Embryo dorsalis. 



Habitus. — Palmae elegantes, saepius procerae, monti-sylvi- 

 colae, monocarpicae, inter dum ope sobolum perennantes. Trun- 

 co concinne annulatus. Folia bipinnata, amplissima ; rete 



* I subjoin a short description of another species observed in the second 

 Kiouk-dweng, or mountain defile of the Irawaddy. 



Stem stout, 10-15 feet high, covered with the bases of the petioles. Leaves 

 10 feet long ; rete scanty, stout, with very long, black twig-like processes ; 

 pinnce ensiform, 2-2s feet long, l| inch broad, white underneath, bi-auriculately 

 lobed at the base, the lower lobe very large and decurrent. Spadices ample, 

 nodding, pendulous. 



Habt.— In densely shaded places of the second (from Mogam) Kiouk-dweng, 

 or rocky defile of the Irawaddy, 7th May, 1837. 



This is the most northerly species of the genus. In the same locality Oro- 

 phea, Dillenia, Hsematospermum, Campanula, i£sculus, were noticed. 



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