. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . allichia nana. Griff, in Calc. Journ. Xat. Hist. V. 488 ;Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 190, t. 315 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. Si.—Samianana, Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 176, t. 238 A. B. Description.—A small erect palm ; stem 3-5 feet high, slender,throwing out roots from the base, covered with rusty pinnatisect, 18 inches to 2 feet long ; petiole short,roundish, obliquely sheathing at the base, with a thin rete, aboveproduced into a bipartite liguliform body ; leaflets about 5 ; lateralones 7-10 by 3-5 inches, opposite or alternate, ob
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . allichia nana. Griff, in Calc. Journ. Xat. Hist. V. 488 ;Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 190, t. 315 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. Si.—Samianana, Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 176, t. 238 A. B. Description.—A small erect palm ; stem 3-5 feet high, slender,throwing out roots from the base, covered with rusty pinnatisect, 18 inches to 2 feet long ; petiole short,roundish, obliquely sheathing at the base, with a thin rete, aboveproduced into a bipartite liguliform body ; leaflets about 5 ; lateralones 7-10 by 3-5 inches, opposite or alternate, obliquely trapezi-formly lanceolate, acuminate, irregularly lobed, toothed and spinous-serrate ; the terminal one flabelliform, striately veined, above green,underneath glaucous white. Spadices erect, very stout, simple or sparingly branched, rustilyscurfy, dense-flowered. Spathes several, distichously imbricate,rusty-furfuraceous, conduplicate, entirely concealing the flowers : calyx of 3 rounded submembranous sepals, THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 4^7 petals 3, coriaceous, valvate, with almost introilexed points,furrowed inside from the pressure of the stamens. Stamens about14, inserted on a small prominent torus, rather shorter than thepetals ; filaments very short ; anthers linear, erect ; no flowers white, crowded, calyx tripartite nearly to the base ;segments rounded, coriaceous, greenish, spreading. Corolla of 3broad, ovate, coriaceous petals ; no staminodes. Ooary trigonous,2-celled, of a thick coriaceous substance ; no style ; stigma conical ;ovules solitary, erect, basilar. Fruit white, oblong, ^ inch long, base surrounded by the perianth,one-seeded, 2-celled, one cell being almost obliterated. Seed erect,oblong, plano-convex ; albumen solid, radiating from a central line ;embryo dorsal. Habitat.^—Assam and the Khasia Hills, ascending to 4,000 feet. Flowers.^—In Jnly and August. DIDYMOSPERMA GRACILIS, Hook. Fl.
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