486 The Palms of British East India. 



almost spinous pointed, about twice as long as the calyx and ovarium, 

 greenish. No rudiments of Stami?ia. Ovarium roundish-turbinate, 2-celled, 

 with a very short conical style and an emarginate stigma. Ovules soli- 

 tary, ascending. 



Fruit oblong, about \ an inch long, reddish, with a thin flesh. Seeds 

 generally two, about the size of a coffee-seed, plano-convex, with an in- 

 distinctly reticulate-veined surface ; tegument adhering to the albumen, 

 which is horny and solid. Embryo conical, a little above the centre of 

 the convex or dorsal face. 



This I believe is Roxburgh's plant, the pinnae agreeing 

 in shape with the outline figure of one in his original drawing. 

 Still, however, there are many discrepancies, Roxburgh re- 

 presenting the spadix as terminal, with both male and female 

 flowers, and resembling in most respects the male spadix of 

 the succeeding, whereas the garden plants are as I have des- 

 cribed them, their spadices evidently corresponding to the 

 female spadices of the succeeding. 



Hamilton's plant, which he considered the same as Rox- 

 burgh's, appears to me from his description distinct. I have 

 therefore quoted his synonym doubtfully. 



92. (2) W. oblongifolia, (n. sp.) pinnis imis binatim fas- 

 ciculatis (reliquis solitariis) lineari-oblongis basi breviter 

 cuneatis integerrimis caeterum sinuoso-lobatis dentatisque ut 

 plurimum eroso-serratis obtuse acuminatis, spathis (spad. 

 masculi) ventricosis spadicem e maxima parte obcludentibus, 

 floribus faemineis densis bibracteatis, corolla tridentata quam 

 ovarium breviore segmentis depressis. 



Harina caryotoides. H. B. C. non Roxb. H. densiflora, 

 Mart. Palm. p. 189. in annot? 



Habit. — Assam. Major Jenkins, Mr. Masters. Sub-Hima- 

 layan range. Darjeeling. Seharunpore collectors. Cultivated 

 in the H. C. Botanic Gardens, flowering in May and June. 



Descr.— A very elegant Palm forming thicker tufts than the preced- 

 ing. Leaves rather larger, the lower ones spreading ; petiole much the 



