LInuzula. | CXLVI. JUNCACEH (BAKER). 97 
long deciduous hairs. Stem short, terete. Inflorescence a dense terminal 
panicle ; flowers many in sessile clusters; lower branches subtended by 
reduced leaves; flower-bracts small, ovate, acuminate, pale, ciliate. 
Perianth-segments lanceolate, dark brown, ;'; in. long. Stamens 6, 
rather shorter than the perianth. Capsule ovoid-trigonous, dark brown, 
shorter than the perianth.—Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 137. 
Mozamb. Dist, German East Africa: Kilimanjaro ; Mawenzi Peak, 12,300 ft., 
Volkens, 1365 ! . : : : 
Orper CXLVII. PALMA. (By ©. H. Wright.) 
Flowers usually small, regular or subregular, hermaphrodite or 
unisexual. Sepals 3, distinct or united, in the male flower open or 
imbricate in estivation, in the female usually widely imbricate. Petals 
3, distinct or united, valvate or imbricate in estivation. Stamens 6 to 
many (rarely 3), inserted at the base of the petals or in the corolla-tube ; 
anthers elongate, sometimes sagittate, basi- or dorsi-fixed, dehiscing 
longitudinally ; filaments free or connate, subulate or filiform ; stami- 
nodes various. Ovary superior, more or less globose, entire or 3-lobed, 
or of 3 distinct carpels, 3- or more celled, often represented by a 
rudiment in the male flowers; style very short or none; stigmas 3, 
erect or recurved ; ovules solitary, erect, pendulous or attached to the 
inner angle of thecell. Fruit seated on the more or less enlarged calyx 
and corolla, dry, baccate or drupaceous, bearing at its apex, side or base 
the remains of the stigma, 1- or more celled, rarely of 3 distinct carpels, 
in Tribe Lepidocaryee covered with retrorsely imbricate scales ; mesocarp 
often containing fibres; endocarp membranous, crustaceous, woody or 
stony, smooth or marked inside with the branches of the raphe. Seeds 
of the same shape as the cell, free or adherent to the endocarp; hilum 
basal or lateral; raphe short or long, usually branched and the branches 
often much reticulated; albumen horny or cartilaginous, more rarely 
oily, solid or hollow, homogeneous or ruminate; embryo small, conical 
or cylindrical, usually near the hilum on the dorsal side, more rarely 
lateral or apical.—Solitary or gregarious plants, monocarpic or polycarpic. 
Stems robust or slender, simple, more rarely branched (in Hyphene), 
erect or climbing, smooth or spiny, ringed or bearing the scars or remains 
of old leaves. Leaves collected in a crown near the apex of the stem 
or scattered along it, usually very large, at first entire, then splitting 
pinnately or flabellately into more or less distinct leaflets, induplicate 
or reduplicate in vernation; rhachis in the pinnate leaves convex on 
the back, keeled above, channelled along the sides where the leaflets are 
inserted ; petiole subcylindrical or more or less channelled on the upper 
side, in flabellate leaves produced into a ligule at the apex, more or less 
sheathing at the base; margins of sheath often breaking up into fibres. 
Inflorescence (spadix) on a long peduncle from amongst the leaves or 
on a short one below them, moneecious, dicecious or polygamous, branched 
or simple ; spathes various in number and shape; bracts and bracteoles 
distinct or connate into a cup, or cylindrical or wanting. 
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