CLXIH. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 403 
, Trise I. Arecese. Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets free with reduplicate 
sides, or confluent as a plaited limb. Flowers moncecious or dicecious. 
Seeds with ventral raphe and dorsal embryo. 
A. Spadix infrafoliar (that is flowering after the fall of the leaf in 
the axil of which it was formed). 
, Subtribe 1. EvanEcEX. Male fl, ansymmetric; sepals small; petals 
imbricate. Stigma in the fruit terminal.-—Spadix androgynous; flowers 
usually ternate, the middle one female. 
* Ovule basilar, erect. 
Male fl. minute, solitary or 2-nate towards the tips of the 
branches, 3- or 6-androus ; fem. larger solitary. Albumen 
mmimte, e, 1. ARECA, 
le fl. one on each side of a fem., stamens 6 or more. 
Albumen ruminate. . . . 0. 0.0.0. + 2 PINANGA. 
** Ovule parietal. 
Male f, 6-androus; sepals equalling or longer than the 
Petals ; fem. sepals and petals broadly imbricate. Albu- 
men ruminate o o o. eet o. eon 
ale fl. 9-12-androus; fem. petals with valvate tips. Albu- 
men ruminate , , , , foe m n ot n 
3. NENGA. 
4. Loxococcus. 
Subtribe2. PrycuosrERwEX. Male fl. symmetric ; sepals broad, rounded, 
imbricate, Stigma in the fruit terminal. Ovule parietal or pendulous 
om the tip of the cell.—Spadix androgynous, flowers usually ternate, the 
middle one female. 
Stamens 6, Albumen ruminate. Leaflets acuminate. 
Bta 8 deeply grooved along the raphe . . + es > 
mens 6-15. Albumen equable, Leaflets entire or 
obliquely 2-toothed ee ot t t t 
f Subtribe 3. ONcosPERMEX. Male fl. symmetric or not; sepalsimbricate ; 
'8ma in fruit lateral or basilar. 
€ sepals small, acute. Stamens 6-12. Albumen rumi- 
nate, Armed palms; leaflets acuminate e.: 
i B. Spadix interfoliar (lowering while the leaf in whose axilit is formed 
Still green) or infrafoliar in some Caryotidex. 
Subtribe 4. T : . fem. fl between two 
. Ievanurem. Spadix androgynous ; . . 
nts male sepals broadly imbricate. Ovudes basilar or parietal. Stigma 
rut lateral or basilar. 
tamens 6-9 Ov : : : ; il 
2-9. ules parietal. Stigma in fruit basilar or 
“ubbasilar, Leaflets obliquely truncate e> 
5. PTYCHORAPHIS. 
6. CYRTOSTACHYS. 
7. ONCO8PERMA. 
8. IGUANURA. 
sunk in cavities 
t Sübtribe 5. GEONOMEX. Spadices unisexual ; flowers ‘Stigma in fruit 
bailar aches ; perianth glumaceous; sepals imbricate. 
: ts free, Leaflets acuminate i Wee 
ubtri . ; . flowers solitary, or 
tiras ribe CanvorrpEx. Spadices unisexual; [i of both sexes 
ning EEN the fem. placed above the others. 
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