. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . about themiddle, 1-2 feet long, 2-2|- inches broad, glaucous beneath ; petioleand sheath short, scurfy. Male spadix 3-4 feet long, very narrow, linear in outline, withinnumerable, recurved, slender, crowded branches. Male calyxcupular, 3-lobed, corolla thrice as long. Female spadix 6-8 feetlong, pendulous; branches stout, simple. Female flowers disposedin many spiral series, green ; corolla longer than the ovary. Fruit oblong, top obscurely 2-3 lobed, reddish. Flowers.— April. Habitat.—Gonda Hills, Oudh; vallej^s of Sikkim Himalaya to2,000 feet
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . about themiddle, 1-2 feet long, 2-2|- inches broad, glaucous beneath ; petioleand sheath short, scurfy. Male spadix 3-4 feet long, very narrow, linear in outline, withinnumerable, recurved, slender, crowded branches. Male calyxcupular, 3-lobed, corolla thrice as long. Female spadix 6-8 feetlong, pendulous; branches stout, simple. Female flowers disposedin many spiral series, green ; corolla longer than the ovary. Fruit oblong, top obscurely 2-3 lobed, reddish. Flowers.— April. Habitat.—Gonda Hills, Oudh; vallej^s of Sikkim Himalaya to2,000 feet; Makum forest, Assam; Upper Burma, ascending to4,000 feet in the hills east of Bhamo; Pegu Yonia, chiefly on theeastern slopes. Uses.—The Lepchas fell the tree to eat the pith of the stem nearits summit. Anderson remarks that the berries and perhaps theleaves irritate the skin (Gamble). Illustration : Plate LIV.—The photograph presented byMr. Macmillan, shows a well-developed specimen of Wallichia JouRN. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Plate Cadda-panna (Teling.); Varu Kamavu (Mai.); Bentinckia coddapanna,Berry, in the Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya. THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 461 disticha. The fact that the leaves arise on two diametrically oppositesides of the stem and thus form two rows is a distinguishingcharacter of this species. Wallichia disticha is, besides, the onlyspecies of its genus which grows a stem of some size. B. 8iib-trile: Geonomece. Spadix between or rarely below the leaves, simple or ternate, sank in cavities of the stout spadix or its fleshybranches. Calyx of 3 narrow, free leaves, imbricate. Corollavalvate, ovary 3-locular with 3 seeds, or by the abortion of2 carpels vinsymmetrical with 1 cell and 1 seed. Fruit by the abor-tion of 2 carpels consisting usually of 1 carpel (rarely 3-carpellarvwith 3 seeds). Embryo basilar (except 8clerosj)erma) in the uni-form albumen. Distribution.—Tropical America, tropical West-Africa,
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