. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . very large, 10-12 feet long. Peduncle curved, stout,entirely covered with large, greyish, coriaceous spathes, one or one-and-a-half foot long, and closely imbricated; branches simple, verylong, pendulous, level-topped, resembling a luige docked very numerous, placed in threes, the central and lowermostbeing female, an d later than the others in development. Maleflowers: Buds narrowly cylindric, ^ inch long ; sepals 3, roundish,cordate, ciliate imbricate ; petals coriaceous, concave, reddish ; sta- 80 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL H
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . very large, 10-12 feet long. Peduncle curved, stout,entirely covered with large, greyish, coriaceous spathes, one or one-and-a-half foot long, and closely imbricated; branches simple, verylong, pendulous, level-topped, resembling a luige docked very numerous, placed in threes, the central and lowermostbeing female, an d later than the others in development. Maleflowers: Buds narrowly cylindric, ^ inch long ; sepals 3, roundish,cordate, ciliate imbricate ; petals coriaceous, concave, reddish ; sta- 80 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXII. mens about 40 ; filaments short, white ; anthers about as long as thepetals, linear, acuminate ; pistillode 0. Female flowers much thesame as the male, but the sepals broader, more ciliate, the corollashorter, and of greenish colour ; staminodes usually 3, placed oppo-site the sepals and angles of the ovarium, resembling young-anthers. Ovary subtrigonal, roundish, 3-locular; ovule solitary,erect; stigma sessile, Fig. 30.—A Fishtail-Palm QCaryota urens) in flower and taken at Khandala by Rev. M. Maier, ) Fruit |-| inch in diameter, reddish ; pericarp thin, yellow, acrid ;seeds one or two ; albumen ruminate, embryo dorsal. Flowers during most of the year (during the hot and rainyseason, according to Brandis). Habitat.—Sub-Himalayan tract from Nepal eastwards, ascend-ing to 5,000 feet; Assam; Khasi Hills ; Manipur ; Chittagong ;Upper Burma; Pegu ; very common in the evergreen forests of theKonkan and Northern Kanara; Coimbatoie; Nilgiris; Malabar ; THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 81 Madura; Orissa ; the Circars ; shady valleys on the east side ofthe Peninsula; Ceylon ; Malaya. UsES\—The most important product of this palm are the fibrouscords or fibro-vascular bundles found naked at the base of the leaf-sheath and within the petioles, flowering stalks and even the stemsas well. These constitute the strong kittul
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