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phius clearly distinguishes from the Olus calappoides, as he 
also (p. 90) does the Todda pana of Rheede. If the figure 
of Rumphius could be depended on, we might readily dis- 
tinguish these species, as it represents the stipites of the 
Olus calappo'ides as unarmed; but in the description (p. 86), 
he says, ^' Rami (stipites) a trunco usque ad foliorum or- 
tum ad margines brevibus obsiti spinibus." 
On the hills which bound Bengal to the east, I have 
found the female of a Cycas, which may be the plant of 
Rumphius, and which I shall here describe. 
Cycas pectinata stipitibus acul^atis; spadicibus foemininis 
mucronatisj utrinque pectinatis. 
Cycas augulata^, Brown^ Nov. Holl. i. 348. ? 
Olus calappoides. Herb. Amb. i. 86, t. 20 et 21. 
Ban Khejur Bengalensium. 
Habitat in Camrupae orientalis sylvis, 
Truncus 7—10 pedes altus, subramosus, teres, annulatus. 
Frondes in trunci apices confert«, pinnatse. Pinnae sequidis-* 
tantes, suboppositse, decurrentes, lineares, acutae, margine re- 
voluto integerrimse, avenes, uninerves junioribus tomentosis. 
Stipites ancipites, tomentosi, aculeis utrinque pectinati. 
Flores dioici ; in arbore fceminina capitulum terminale, or- 
biculatum, depressum, arctissime spadicibus ferrugineo-tomen- 
tosis imbricatum, undique intus gummi scatens, squamis spa- 
thaceis tomentosis pluribus brevibus cinctum. Spadix basi 
anceps, apice dilatatus in squamam crassam, incur vam, ovatam, 
mucrone rigido acuminatissimam, utrinque pectinatam. Flos-^^ 
culi utrinque 2 vel 3 foveis totidem in basi spadicis utrinque 
insculptis nidulantes. 
Calyx vel petala nulla. Germen compressum. Stylus nullus. 
Stigma acutum. 
Capitulum fructiferum arete spadicibus acutissimis imbrica-« 
tum. 
Drupa obliqua, obovata, magnitudine ovi compressa, basi 
hylo notata, nuda, rugosa. Cortex tenuis, papyraceus, arete 
adhaerens. Caro tenuis, fungosa, ossiculo adnata. Putamen 
forma fructus osseum, tenue, laeve, basi acuminatum, et poro 
perforatum. Receptaculura nullum, semine ad apicem putami- 
nis adhaerente. Semen unicum fructu forma conforme. Integu- 
mentum intus nitidum, spadiceum, membranaceum, putamini 
adhaerens, ab interioribus facile secedens, apicem incrassatum 
