Hyphiene.] CXLVII, PALMA (WRIGHT). 119 
branches subfastigiate; bracts semicircular, very densely imbricate ; 
bracteoles membranous, bearded. 
A genus of about 15 species, extending into Arabia and Madagascar. Many of 
the species are described from imperfect material and are ill-defined. 
Stem cylindrical. 
Stem dichotomous. 
Fruit turbinate-pyriform, shallowly furrowed 1. H. coriacea. 
Fruit long pyriform, obtusely keeled . : . 2. H. Wendlandit. 
Fruit obliquely ovoid, obscurely trigonous . 3. H. thebaica. 
Stem unbranched. 
Petiole eoncavo-convex. Fruit shortly turbinate. 4. H. guineensis. 
Petiole deeply channelled above; ligule equi- 
lateral. Fruit oblong or obovoid , . 5. H. crinita. 
Petiole plano-convex ; ligule oblique. Fruit oblique 
at the base - g : . 6. H. Goetzei. 
Stem ventricose ‘ : ; : : z . 7. H. ventricosa, 
1, H. coriacea, Cerin. Fruct.i. 28, t. 10, fig. 2. Stem 30 ft. high, 
dichotomously branched. Fruit turbinate-pyriform, shallowly furrowed, 
broadest above the middle, flat at the apex; fibres of the pericarp 
shorter than the triangular putamen; cavity of putamen oblong. 
Seed ovoid-ellipsoid, attached by its centre-—Mart. in Miinch. gel. 
Anzeig. 1838, 639; Kirkin Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 234; Wendl. in Bot. 
Zeit. 1881, 93; Engl. Pil. Ost-Afr. B. 25, C. 180; Drude in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxi. 110, 122. Corypha africana, Lour. FI). Cochinch, 213; 
Wendl. in Kerchove, Palm. 247. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: on the coast, Usambara, Holst, 3172, 
3174 (ex Drude); on the Rovuma River, 8-12 miles from the sea coast, Kirk. 
“ Eastern Africa, in woods,” ex Loureiro. 
Kirk (1.c.) distinguishes two varieties thus :—(1) Stem 30 ft. high, much branched ; 
fruit smaller and less flattencd than in the following. (2) Often a bush with a 
small stem rarely branched more than once ; fruit deep brown, much flattened at 
the apex. The latter, which is said to be abundant at the mouth of the Zambesi, 
may be the same as Drude’s variety minor, from Pondoland (Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 110, 122). 
Also in Madagascar. 
2. H. Wendlandii, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 353. A tree 
65-82 ft. high, usually much branched. Leaves flabellate, 34 ft. 
long, 43 ft. broad; petiole concavo-convex in the lower part, plano- 
convex above, glabrous, with dark brown curved spines 7-16 lin. 
apart on the margins; ligule very oblique, aculeate-dentate; rhachis 
prolonged nearly to the middle of the leaf, densely spiny above the 
base ; lamina with about 48 lobes, minutely spiny on the nerves above 
the base. Male inflorescence racemose ; branches bearing 1—4 spikes 
6—8 in. long near the apex; bracts cylindrical, oblique, acute ; bracteoles 
widely cochleariform, truncate, bearded at the sides. Calyx mem- 
branous, turbinate, 1} lin. long, 3-toothed. Corolla 3-partite; lobes 
oblong, obtuse. Stamens 6 ; filaments subulate, the three inner dilated 
at the base, 1 lin. long. Rudiment of ovary very minute. Female 
inflorescence racemose, 2-2} ft. long; branches bearing 1, rarely 2, 
cylindrical spikes at the apex about 8 in. long, 4 lin. in diam. ; bract 
