420 Let, PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 
11. DIDYMOSPERMA, H. Wendl. § Drude. 
Small low palms. Leaves terminal, unequally pinnatisect ; leaflets few, 
trapezoid, erose, uni-costate, nerves flabellate. Spathes many, sheathing 
the peduncle of the spadix. Spadix interfoliar, stout and simple, or slender 
and branched; moncecious or Pdicecious; flowers rather large. Male fl. 
symmetric; calyx cupular, 3-fid, imbricate; petals coriaceous valvate ; 
stamens 10-30, anthers linear, erect; pistillode 0. Fem. fl. subglobose ; 
sepals rounded, coriaceous; petals thick, triangular, incurved, valvate; 
staminodes 0. Ovary depressed, 3-gonous, 2-3-celled, stigmas conical ; 
ovules basilar. Fruit ovoid or oblong, 1-2-celled and -seeded, stigmas 
terminal. Seeds erect, oblong, plano-convex ; albumen equable; embryo 
dorsal.—Species 6, Malayan and Indian. 
l. D. Hookeriana, Becc. Males. iii. 186 ; stem slender, leaves 
small long-petioled white beneath, some oblong from a cuneate base, some 
entire or lobed, others pinnatisect with obovate oblong or trapezoid long- 
tailed leaflets shortly ansate at the base, spadix filiform. 
( MALAY PENINSULA; Perak, Scortechini, No. 229b. 136b.) King’s Collector 
n. 2446). 
_ Stem 3-4 ft., solitary or tufted, 3-1 in. diam. Leaves extremely variable, 12-90 
in. long; petiole slender; sheath furfuraceous. Spadices about 8 in. long, sheathe 
with 5-6 spathes; flowers spirally disposed in clusters of 3; male fl. oblong, sub- 
clavate, top rounded. Fruit unripe, globose. 
2. D. hastata, Becc. Males. iii. 99.; stem slender, leaf-sheaths 
scurfily hispid, leaflets 6-7 terminal trapezoid, lateral. petiolula 4 
trapezoid caudate-acuminate, base hastate and ansate, spadices Der 
nodding. 
(os at Selangore, F. Keheding. Perak, Larut, King’s Collector 
9). i 
Stem ft., solitary or sparingly tufted. Leaves 14-2 ft.; terminal leaflet 43-6 
by 1-2 in., lateral rather longer and broader, lower margin straight, anter 
sinuate-toothed. Spadix1 ft. long; male fl. l in.— Habit, &c., of D. Hookera nd 
but the leaf-sheaths are brown scurfy, as are the leaflets more or less beneath, ^ 
the latter have broadly cuneate more or less ansate bases; petiolule 1 im. an 
more. 
, 9. D. nana, H. Wendl. & Drude in Kerchov. Palm. , 243; leer 
pinnatisect, leatlets about 5, terminal flabelliform, lateral opposite dur, 
trapeziformly lanceolate acuminate not caudate irregularly lobed. ar 
toothed, pale beneath, spadices erect very stout simple or spar tA 
branched rustily scurfy dense-fld. Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6836. Waller 
nana, Grip: M Cale, Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 488; Mart. Hist. Pi Ko 
90, t. 315; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. € arina nana, Grif. Fam l 
Ind. 176.0. 238 4 Ge at. ii. 34. Harina nana, Grif 
8 os 18 in. 
Stem 3-5 ft., clothed with rusty leaf-sheaths, petioles and epathes, Leaves ib; 
4. D. gracilis, Hook. f.; stem very slender leafy upwards, Jeaflets e 
lateral broadly cuneate below the middle above it triangular or 
truncate and acutely toothed, fem. spadix slender erect 3-branched, 
elongate ovoid obtuse base rounded, seed elliptic-oblong concavo-Convex 
