478 The Palms of British East India. 



tenue, fibrillosum ; pinnulae cuneatae, oblique praemorsae, 

 erosae, pagina utraque concolori. Spadices nutanti-penduli. 

 Spicfe pendulae, saepius fastigiatae, caudae equinae in modo 

 dispositae. Fl.fcem. stamina rudimentaria tria. Baccsesw6- 

 globosae, rubescentes, Succus acerrimus. 



Specierum octo tres tantum satis bene cognitae; aliserecog- 

 noscendse, turn fusius turn accuratius definiendae. 



C. urens, arborea, pinnulis coriaceis spinuloso-dentato- 

 lobatis et erosis, lateralibus obliquissimis margine exteriori 

 producto caudato-acuminatissimis, staminibus sub-38, anther- 

 is seepius emarginatis, baccis depresso-globosis 1-2-spermis 

 globuli sclopeti magnitudine. 



88. (1) C. urens. Linn.fl. zeyl. p. 187. No. 396. Willd. sp. 

 PL 4. p. 493. Gaert. fruct. et. sem. 1. p. 20. t. 7. Roxb. 

 Icones. 14. t. 80. Fl. Ind. 3. p. 625. Mart. Palm. p. 193. 

 /. 107, t. 108, (indifferent,) t. 162, (very bad.) 



Schunda-pana. Rheede. Hort. Mai. \.p. 15. t. 11. 



Habit. — In sandy places, Malabar. (Rheede.) On Hills 

 Cavila-Cutty, with Teak and wild Mango trees. Velater, 

 Malabar, where it is called Evim-pannah. Dinagepore, Buck. 

 Hamilton* A native of the various mountainous parts of 

 India, flowering time the hot and rainy season. Roxb. Assam. 

 Telinga, Jeroogoo. Dinapore. Ramguoah, Bon-khejur. Assam, 

 Bura Sawar. 



DEscR.f — A lofty, extremely elegant palm. Trunk a foot in diameter, 

 35-40 feet high, with distinct distant annuli. Crown rather thin, of seve- 

 ral ascending gracefully curved leaves, of great size, 18-20 feet long, 

 10-12 broad. Petiole very stout, at the base about 3 inches across ; 

 the lower foot naked, the margins of the sheath continued up on it as 

 an elevated confluent line. Rete moderate, coarsely fibrous. Pinna? 

 fascicled or generally alternate, inserted on large knobs, 5-6 feet long, 

 curved or even drooping. The lowest pinnules attached to the petiole 



* Joum. Mysore, etc. 3. p. 64.— Ditto 2. p. 454. 

 t From specimens in the Botanic Gardens. 





