418 CLXIIL PALMER. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Jguanura. 
sheath as long, tubular, mouth truncate. Spadia 4—3 iu., pedunele í-M in, 
branches 3 -6 in., scattered, filiform; flowers minute. Fruit k by $ in. 
9. BEN TINCKIA, Berry. 
Unarmed Palms. Leaves terminal, equally pinnatisect. Spathes many, 
2 lower short incomplete, upper 2-fid. Spadix interfoliar, Wett A 
flowers minute, monæœcious or polygamous, solitary or 3-nate wi des 
intermediate female, clustered in spirally arranged pits on the brave sch 
bracts forming a 2-lipped mouth to each pit; bracteoles 2. Man f ng 
symmetric, glumaceous, often reduced to ciliate scales; sepais o ti A 
obtuse, connate below, imbricate ; petals longer, connate below into as T , 
valvate; stamens 6, anthers versatile; pistillode conical. Fem. fi. one d 
sepals broad, obtuse, imbricate; petals longer, convolute ; stamino ^b. 
minute. Ovary 3-celled, l-ovuled; stigmas minute. Fruit sma dee 
spherical; stigmas subbasilar. Seed pendulous from the top of the , 
sinuately grooved or ridged; albumen equable.— Species 2. 
ess r 
1. B. Coddapanna, Berry, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 621; sto plendo? 
10-20 ft., fruit subspherical. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. in. 165, 2: ? Palms 
Kunth Enum. iii. 228; Grif. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. uA ii. 385. 
Brit. Ind. 160; Append. xxvi.; Wight in Madv. Journ. Nat. Bc. 1 
Keppleria, Mart. mss. ez Endl. Gen. Pl. 25. 
TRAVANCORE, Wight, Ze, . ts 
A slender palm; stem 1 in. diam. or more, annulate. Leaves 3-4 ft. Jet 
2 ft. or more by 1 in. broad, close together, linear, 2-keeled, keels pale ; 
usually 2-fid; lobes 2-4 in., triangular. Spathes membranous, lower, erg 
upper complete, Spadiz 1-2 ft., male scarlet, fem. lilac or violet ; peduncle d, pite 
branches few, again branched, ultimate 6-10 in.; bract at the base d rst. 
on the branches 3-4-fld., flowers emerging and opening singly, the upp 
Fruit rather compressed, about 4 in. diam. 
» . nk 
2. B. nicobarica, Bece. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. n. 165 die 
tall 60-70 ft., fruit obovoidly oblong tip rounded. Orania me 
Kurz in Journ, Bot. xiii. (1875) 331, t. 171, f. 19-25. ` 
NICOBAR ISLANDS; Kamorta, Kurz, E. H. Man. ile, linear, 
Trunk annulate, 9 in. diam. Leaves 5-8 ft.; leaflets 1-2 ft., sessi 11-2 ft. 
coriaceous, tip obtusely 2-lobed; petiole short and rachis glabrous. Spadiz 3 the 
decompound, glabrous, branches and branchlets inserted in woolly groov bsimilar, 
rachis ; bracteoles densely villous within. Fem. d. ; sepals and petals e eet 
broadly ovate, obtuse, shining. Fruits tristichously arranged, globose y convex 
when dry), the size of a cherry. Seed ovoid-oblong, ventrally flat, doten? 
rugosely ribbed; albumen equable; embryo lateral and apical. 
10. WALLICHIA, Rob. 
. ng. 
Soboliferous palms. Leaves pinnatisect; leaflets linear OT Fuere 
irregularly toothed, base cuneate, unicostate, nerves flabellate. T large 
very many, tubular, clothing the peduncle of the spadix, "IL ovoid, 
cymbiform. Spadices interfoliar, monoecious or polygamous; ma ? metrics 
excessively branched and dense-fld.; fem. looser-fid. Male fl. sy™ deeply 
calyx cylindric or cupular, membranous, truncate ; corolla cylindric (me 
3-lobed, lobes oblong, valvate; stamens 6, on the corolla-tube; pgloboses 
short, anthers large; pistillode 0. Fem. fl. much smaller, sus 
