490 The Palms of British East India. 



apice irregulariter dentatis vel lobatis, subtus albidis. Spa- 

 dix axillaris, paniculatim ramosus. Flores albi, minttti. 

 Fructus globosus, albidus. 



Folia et flores faeminei quodammodo Arengae, spathae Co- 

 cos, fructus Coryphae. 



Locus naturalis mihi ignotus : ad calcem Arecinarum 

 interim posui. Affinis Euterpe montanae, Graham, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3874, quae cum charactere generico citato saltern 

 quoad spatbas minime convenit. 



94. (1.) M. sylvicola. 



Habt. — In forests, Ching, Malacca. Malayan name, Ebool. 



Descr. — A handsome palm, about 40 feet in height, with somewhat 

 the habit of Cocos rmcifera. Crown sub-hemisphserical, dense. Leaves 

 pinnate, ample, 12-15 feet long, spreading in every direction ; petiole 

 with the margins of the hardened leathery half stem clasping base la- 

 cerate-fibrous, lower naked part about 5 feet long; lamina sub-obovate 

 in outline ; pinna sub-linear, 2§-3 feet long, 2 inches broad, oblique at 

 the points where they are irregularly toothed or lobed, underneath 

 whitish-scurfy : above 1 -keeled, underneath with 5 small keels. 



Spathes 2, outer one very small, incomplete, 2-edged, perforated at 

 the apex, leathery ; inner complete, almost woody, before dehiscence 

 fusiform-clavate with a subulate cuspis, striate or sulcate, ferruginously 

 scurfy, roughish, opening longitudinally, the margins becoming re- 

 flexed. 



Spadix paniculately branched, spreading, nodding towards the point, 

 here and there ferruginously scurfy ; branches sub-secund, the primary 

 ones suffulted by a broad short greenish bracte ; the secondary (spikes) 

 nodding, slender, gradually attenuated to the apex, the lower ones bear- 

 ing female flowers towards the base, the upper male flowers throughout. 



Flowers distichous, white. Male flowers either one on either side of 

 the female or in pairs alone, oblong, sub-angular. Calyx small, tri- 

 partite to the middle ; divisions tooth-shaped, erect, fleshy, membra- 

 nous. Petals 3, oblong, coriaceous, boat-shaped, valvate. Stamina 6, 

 shorter than the petals ; filaments stout, subulate ; anthers linear-oblong, 

 adnate, extrorse attached near the base. Pollen lanceolate, 1-plicate, 

 whitish. Rudiment of the Pist ilium simple, conical. 



