CLXIU. PALMEA. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 405 
** Monocarpic palms, flowering once and then dying. 
T Spadices axillary from the uppermost leaves. 
Stem scandent. Spadix with long amentiform branches 
clothed with large closely imbricating inflated spathels 
that conceal the spikelets of lowers . . . . . . . . 28, PLECTOCOMIA. 
Stem scandent. Spadix much branched, the branches bear- 
ing small infundibular spathels, each containing a small 
spikelet. Scales of fruit distinct. — . . . . . . . 29, PLECTOCOMTOPSIS. 
Stem scandent. Spadix as of the preceding ; scales of fruit 
most minute . 30. MYRIALEPIs. 
tt Spadix very large, terminal. 
Stems short, tufted. Leaves armed . . . . . . . . 31. KUGEISSONIA, 
tem stout, erect. Leaves unarmed . . . . . . . . 82. METROXYLON. 
Tree V. Borasses. Lvaves flabelliform. Spadices interfoliar ; 
spathes numerous, sheathing. Flowers dioecious; males minute, sunk in 
cavities of the catkin-like branches; perianth glumaceous; fem. very 
arge, sessile on very short branches of a very stout spadix, each clothed 
with large coriaceous rounded bracts. 
33. BORASSUS. 
, Tere VI, Cocoinese. Leaves pinnatisect, leaflets with reduplicate 
sides, Spadices interfoliar, unisexual or androgynous ; spathes 2. Ovary 
celled, stigmas terminal. Fruit a drupe with a fibrous pericarp and 
terminal stigmas ; endocarp woody or stony, with 3 terminal pits of which 
vo answer to arrested cells, the third is immediately over the position of 
the embryo in the subjacent albumen. Seed adherent to the endocarp by 
e diffuse reticulations of the raphe, which ramities all over the seed. 
34, Cocos. 
l. ARECA, Linn. 
Stem erect, annulate. Leaves pinnate. Spadices infrafoliar, branched ; 
MALE FL, many, minute; sepals small; petals obliquely lanceolate, valvate. 
pamens 3 or 6; anthers basifixed, erect. FEM. FL. much larger, few at 
the base of the branches ; perianth acrescent; sepals and petals orbicular, 
Inbricate, the petals with acute valvate tips; ovary l-celled; stigmas 3, 
Sessile ; ovule basal, erect. Fruit ovoid or oblong, stigmas terminal. 
abo With a truncate base, albumen ruminate, embryo basilar.—Species 
ut 24, tropical Asia and Australia. 
l. A. Catec inn. Sp. Pl. 1189; hexandrous, trunk tall, fruit 
oid. Bet. Cor BLA sk, e756 FL Ind. di 613; Mart. Hist, Nat. 
«m. lii. 169, t. 102 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 184; Blume Rumph. iii. 65, t. 102 A. 
4. 104; Grif. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 153; Palms of Brit. ind. 
Ti. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 8; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 586; Gamble Man. Ind. 
inb, 42] ; Scheff. Arec. 9; in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 1. 144, t. i. v. iii. 
Cochi Areca F aufel, Gertn. Fruct. i. 19, t. 7, f. 2. A. hortensis, Lour. Fl. 
Inch. 568.— Rheede Hort. Mal. i. t. 5-8. 
Cultivated in the hot damp regions of Asia and 
"unk solitary, 40-100 tt. Leaves 4-6 ft.; 
the MALAYAN ISLANDS. 
leaflets numerous, 1-2 ft., upper 
