Caryota.] OLX. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) (433 
Habit and stature of C. urens, from which it differs in the more rounded and 
rarus apex of the leaflets, in the shorter unexpanded male flowers and slightly in 
the fruit. 
Var. equatorialis, Becc. mss.; pinnules more acute more deeply crenate or 
serrate, male fl. larger, stamens more than 100. ? C. ochlandra, Hance in Journ. 
A 1879, 174.— Malay Peninsula; Perak, Wray (n. 1239). Malay Islands, 
ina. 
d C. mitis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. ii. 569; stem low soboliferous, 
petioles leaf-sheaths and spathes scurfily villous, leaflets very obliquely 
cuneiform erose and toothed, upper margin acute, spadix branches scurfy, 
male buds cylindric, stamens about 15-25. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palin. ni. 
195; Kunth Enum. iii. ; C. sobolifera, Wall. Cat. 8594; Mart. l. e. iii. 194, 
t. 107, £. 2; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. A81; Palms Brit. Ind. 171, 
t. 236 C; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 4l; Kurz. For. Fl. ii. 530. C. urens, 
Jacq. Fragm. 20, t. 12, f. 1. C. nana, Wall. Cat. 8595. C. furfuracea, 
Blume in Mart. 1, c. 195; Rumphia, ii. 141 (evel. var. caudata). C. pro- 
pinqua, Blume in Mart. l. c. 195, in Rumphia l. c. 138, t. 155 (partim) 162. 
C. Griffthii, Bece. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Lial. iii. 15. 
Burma; from Arracan southwards, and the Maray PENINSULA, PENANG and 
the Andaman Islands.—Disrris. Malay Islands. . 
Stem 15-25 ft. by 4-5 in. diam. Leaves 4-9 ft., pinnules 4—7 in., irregularly 
toothed. Spadio as in C. urens, but much smaller, with fewer unequal scurfy 
ranches, and much smaller flowers, the males about } in. long. Stamens apiculate. 
Ser 3, tips glandular. Fruit } in. diam., blueish black. Seed globose, 
à Loose, 
14. ORANIA, Zippel. 
. Tall, stout, unarmed palms. Leaves terminal, equally and regularly 
Pinnatisect: leaflets linear, tips obliquely lobed or torn, strongly uni- 
ostate; petiole stout, sheath short. Spathes 2, lower short, tubular, 
compressed; upper large, clavate, cleft longitudinally . Spadix interfoliar, 
elongate, shortly peduncled, branches slender fastigiate; flowers minute, 
Upper or all male, lower or all 3-nate, a fem. between 2 males. Male fi. 
subsymmetric ; calyx minute, 3-fid; petals oblong or lanceolate, valvate ; 
stamens 3 or 6, filaments subulate, anthers erect slits extrorse; pistillode 
conic, Fem. fl. larger, ovoid; calyx membranous, 3.fid; petals ovate, 
obtuse, valvate; staminodes 3 or 6; ovary 2-gonous, 3-celled, stigmas 
d; ovules pendulous. Kruit globose, 1-3-celled, stigmas basili. 
eed globose, testa spongy, adherent to the endocarp; albumen equable ; 
embryo dorsal.— Species about 5, tropical Asiatie and Malayan. 
1. O.macrocladus Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 186, t.177, f. 1; lowers 
+ Snate, a fem. between 2 males, more or less distichously arranged, 
x amens 6, Bece. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 152, 164, t. 13. Macro- 
17 ¥8 sylvicola, Grif. in Cale, Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 489; Palms Brit. Ind. 
7, t. 239 A, p. 
Maray PENINSULA; Malacca, in the Ching forests, Griffith. Pr) Jaya. io 
A Zoe 40 ft. ; crown densely leafy, subhemispheric. Leaves 12-15 "n Se eg 
md. me; leaflets 24-3 ft. by 2 in., white and scurfy beneath ; petiole 5 t. pat s 
t 1X scurfy. ` Spadix paniculately branched, nodding, branches slender; 
"8 White, Fruit 14-14 in. diam., smooth, whitish. 
