. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . ^ lobed, acutely toothed, with a brown midriband many parallel nerves, bright green above, white beneath; theterminal pinnules are broadly cuneate, 3-lobed, the central lobebeing itself 2-lobed and eroso-dentate ; sheaths scurfy. Male spadices axillary, curved, often pendulous ; the ends of thelowermost toiTching the groimd, about 1^ foot long. Spathesdensed imbricated, the innermost almost membranous, striate,tinged with dark purple, eqiialling the flower-bearing part ofthe spadix. Spikes slender, \&vj numerous, level-topped, pendulous,their p
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . ^ lobed, acutely toothed, with a brown midriband many parallel nerves, bright green above, white beneath; theterminal pinnules are broadly cuneate, 3-lobed, the central lobebeing itself 2-lobed and eroso-dentate ; sheaths scurfy. Male spadices axillary, curved, often pendulous ; the ends of thelowermost toiTching the groimd, about 1^ foot long. Spathesdensed imbricated, the innermost almost membranous, striate,tinged with dark purple, eqiialling the flower-bearing part ofthe spadix. Spikes slender, \&vj numerous, level-topped, pendulous,their points projecting beyond the opening of the spathes. Flowersvery numerous, yellow, solitary, or the lower in pairs, with arudimentary female between. Calyx cylindric, nearly entire,corolla as long as the caljoc, tripartite nearly to the base ; segmentsreflexed. Stamens 6; filaments adnate to the petals; no pistillode. JouRN. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Plate ^i^y:^^^^*¥^^^^- ? Minbaw (Upper Burma); Zanaung, Letme (Lower Burma); Wallichia disticha, T.(Anders,in the Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya. THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 459 Spathes of female spadix brown, conduplicate, the outer one some-times very long and accnminate. Branches very stout, green,various-ly ascending, tapering at the ends, where they are caudiform and not-ched, the notches bearing rudimentary flowers. Bracts 2, right andleft. Flowers purplish, crowded, occupying the lower part of a flatfishareola, bases somewhat immersed. Calyx very short, divided to themiddle into 3 broad rounded teeth. Corolla shorter than the ovary,trifid, segments broadly half ovate, obtuse, depressed. Stigma anindistinctly emarginate point. Fruit oblong, about ^ inch long, dull purple, surrounded at thebase by the perianth, on the apex presenting a brown spot, theremains of the stigma. Epicarp tough, rather thin; flesh scantywith a mucilaginous acrid juice. Seeds plano-convex. Albumenh
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