The Palms of British East India. 488 



Char. Gen. — i^/ores mono- dioici. Masculi binati. Stamina 

 6 vel indefinita. Faminei solitarii vel masculo utrinque sti- 

 pati. Bacca sub-exsucca, 1-2-sperma. Albumen aequabile. 

 Embryo dorsalis. 



Habitus. — Palmse ccespitosae, humiles, frutescentes, sobo- 

 liferae (an semper ?), aliquando arundinaceae, truncis mono- 

 carpicis. Folia pinnata; rete fibrosum ; pinnae infimae saepius 

 fasciculatae 9 superiores solitariae, e basi cuneata integerrima 

 varie lobatae dentataeve (lobis dentibusque spinuloso-erosis), 

 striato-veniae, subtus albidae et nigro punctulatae. Flores 

 mono-dioici, vel polygami in diversis spadicibus, vel monoid 

 in eodem spadice? Spadices masculi, vel axillares inversa 

 ordine evoluti, nutanti-penduli, ramosissimi spicis fastigiatis 

 e maxima parte spathis inclusis; vel (Oraniae) terminates, 

 parce ramosi, spicis exsertis. Flores inferiores per paria dis- 

 positi cum vel absque fceminei rudimento ; superiores solitarii. 

 Spadices faeminei terminates, ramis paucis exsertis, interdum 

 simplices. Spicae apice attenuatae, polygamae? Flores soli- 

 tarii, bi-tribracteolati. Fructus oblongi, interdum obliqui, rubri 

 vel albi. Succus causticus. 



The genus Wallichia was first established by Dr. Rox- 

 burgh in 1819.* 



In 1826, it appeared as Harina of Buchanan Hamilton. f 



In 1882, it re-appeared under the name Wrightea in the 

 Flora Indicaf of Dr. Roxburgh. And this was the original 

 MSS. name, which it became necessary to change, owing to 

 the prior appearance of the Wrightia§ of Mr. Brown. 



The synonymy became very confused by the appearance 

 in 1823, four years after the publication of the Coromandel 

 plants, of the Wallichia of De Candolle,|| a plant belonging 

 to the family of Byttneriacea?. 



* Cor. PI. 3. t. 295. This date is taken from Sprengel's Genera, there being 

 no complete copy of the Coromandel Plants in the H. C. Botanic Gardens, 

 f Mem. Wern. Soc. 5. p. 317. + Op. Cit. 3. p. 621. 



§ Mem. Wern. Soc. 1. p. 73. || Mem. Mus. 10. p. 104. t. 6. 



