Tas. 4961. 
SEAFORTHIA ExeGans. 
Llegant Seaforthia. 
Nat. Ord. Patma.—Monea@cia POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores polygamo-monoici, in spadice ramoso sessiles, bracteolati ; 
masculi superiores vel inferne bini fcemineos singulos stipantes. Spatha duplex ; 
interior completa. Masc. Calyx exterior trisepalus; sepalis ovatis, imbricatis ; 
interior trifidus; laciniis oblongis, in alabastro valvatis. Stamina plurima, e 
fundo calycis interioris ; filamenta filiformia, libera; anthere lineares, subsagit- 
tate. Ovarii rudimentum.—Fem. Calyx maris; sepalis imbricato-convolutis. 
Staminum rudimenta nulla. Ovarium uniloculare, uniovulatum ; ovulo erecto. 
Stylus brevissimus, terminalis. .Stigma 3-lobum vel capitatum, glandulo-spon- 
giosum. Bacca 1-sperma, grumoso-fibrosa. Albumen ruminatum, rarissime 
subzequabile. Zmbryo basilaris.—Palme elegantes, inermes. Caudex annulatus. 
Frondes magne, pinnate; pinnis reduplicatis erosis. Spadices infra frondes, 
laterales, simpliciter vel duplicato-ramosi, rarius simplices. Flores plerumque 
virides. Baccee ovales. Semen plerumque striatum vel sulcatum. Kth. 
SEAFORTHIA elegans ; caudice procero, pinnis angusto-lanceolatis apice oblique’ 
truncatis: breviter bifidis lacinia antica longiore et eroso-dentatis, subtus 
in nervo medio squamulis magnis paleolatis, florum masculorum _petalis 
oblongis obtusis, staminibus 24, baccis ovalibus, nucleo leviter 5-sulcato. 
Mart. 
Skarortuta elegans. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 267. Mart. Palm. p. 181. 
t. 105, 106, e¢ 109. Kth. Enum. Plant. v. 3. p. 189. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 
v. 2. p. 623. 
No less than fourteen species of the genus Seaforthia are enu- 
merated by Martius, chiefly inhabiting Eastern Bengal or the 
Malay Archipelago. The genus, however, was established by 
Mr. Brown on a Palm of the northern and eastern coasts of 
tropical New Holland, viz. the one here figured, which was 
named in honour of the late Lord Seaforth, “ Botanices periti 
cultoris et fautoris.” Plants have been raised at the Royal Gar- 
dens of Kew from seeds transmitted by Allan Cunningham ; and 
one of these, having attained a height of twenty-eight feet from 
the ground, produced its racemes of flowers of a pale, dull, lilac 
colour, from the side of the dark green, graceful trunk, as repre- 
JANUARY Ist, 1857. 
