PALMS. 



handsome, very dense in consequence of the close- set-ness of the 

 Pinnae and the leaves, vrhich spread in every direction, new ones 

 ascending, the pinnulse are patent with a tendency to be recurved. 



Bertam occurs, covering the upper part of the cleared hill, at the 

 base of which the road runs, many are destroyed by burning, some 

 trees occur with it, but there is little or no under-wood, the space 

 occupied by each specimen is large, each forming an impenetrable 

 bush, around are strewed the remains of old leaves, and pits filled 

 with rubbish. 



It appears to be a plant with a number of offsets. The leaves 

 are very broad and spreading, particularly the outer ones of each 

 branch. The plant is about 20 feet high, the lower half of pinnse well 

 armed. Pinnules spreading. The inflorescence, much shorter than 

 the leaves, often f . 



Anowe Kutaree, Petiole shortly sheathing, margine of the up- 

 per part i. e. at base of petiole itself is porcupiny, with black quills, 

 this is deeply grooved or channelled. Pinnules all on the same plane 

 patent slightly decurved, white underneath. 



A young tree was brought in loth Oct. 1842. 



Habit, and colouring of the leaves exactly as in the Cobang, 6 

 paces long 2 broad, general outline of lamina blunt lanceolate. Spath 

 sub-lanceolate, the 2nd outermost a little armed, fruit obovate turbin ; 

 surmounted by style and 3 incurved stigma. Scales green with 

 white margins, brown apex, upper spathes of specimen much more 

 elongated, and coming nearly from the base of the axilla. 



Generally there is no difficulty in distinguishing between the leaves 

 of Kutaree and anowe, although this last has not all the leaves pin- 

 nated fascicLilately, nor is the character of solitary pinnfe ever varia- 

 ble in Kutaree. But the leaves of Anowe are larger, often more or 

 less undulated, ever fresh, with a convex upper surface, and the pin- 

 nae are curved conspicuously towards the apex were they are fasci- 

 culate, the lower ones ascend obliquely, the upper are patent and 

 somewhat deflexed. Anoive and Kutaree appear* to be perfectly 

 distinct. 



Note Magnificent Epiphytical Orchidea, growing in dense firmly 

 adherent tufts on trees, root pungent. Stems long, ascending, arched, 

 often, with exactly ditichous vaginse ; upper half pendulous 

 distantly undulated, canaliculat linear ; sessile tendency to twisting, 



