Tab. 7202. 



DBYMOPHLCEUS appendiculata. 

 Native of the Malayan Archipelago. 



Nat. Ord. Palm.e. — Tribe Arece^e. 

 Genua Dryhophlceus, Zippel (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 892.) 



Drymophlceus (Endrymopbloens) appendiculata; caudice 6-10 pedali, folns 

 paucia terminalibus 5-6 ped. longis arcuato-patentibua, petiulo H pedali 

 aemitereti, rachi trigona fusco-furfuracea, aegmentis 14-20 alternis ses- 

 ailibus 8-10 poll, longis cuneato-trapezoideia inasquilateris apice irregu- 

 lariter lobatiaet erosis subtus concoloribus segmentoterminali nabelliformi, 

 spadicibus infra-foliaceia breviter pedunculatis 10-12 poll, longis et latia 

 laxifloria, racbi craasa, ramia simplieibus patentibus, spatbis 3-4 remotia 

 lanceolatia 6-7 poll, longis demum 1'uacis ; fl. masc. v. hermaphrod. sepalis 

 orbiculatis, petalia i poll, longia baai connatia lanceolatia craaae coriaceia, 

 staminibua 30-40 petalia sequilongis baai ovarii adnatia, filamentia fili- 

 formibus, antberis oblongia, stylo elougato filiibrmi, stig mate oblongo 

 tridentato; 11. kem. minimis globosia, sepalia petalisque orbiculatis erosia, 

 ovario oblongo apice rotundato, baccis \-% poll, longis ovoideo-oblongis 

 ima basi periantbio emarcido parvulo cinctia lasvibus pallide rubris, 

 albumine solido aequabili. 



D. appendiculata, Scheff. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. vol. i. p. 52 et 197. 



D. olivseformiss, W. Wats, in Gard. & Forest, July, 1891, p. 330, f. 57. 



Ptychosperma appendiculata, Blume Rumph. p. 122, t. 84 and 119 ; Miquel. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. iii. p. 30 ; Griff. Palms of Brit. E. Ind. t. 142 A (Ic. 

 Blume iterat.). 



Seaforthia jaculatoria Mart. Nat. Hist. Palm. p. 186 et 314. 



Areca olivaeformia, ft gracilis, Giseke Prael. Ord. Nat. p.t80. 



A. vaginata, Giseke I. c. 



Triartea P monogyna, Zipp. Bijd. Nat. Wet. vol. v. p. 178. 



Saguastbi, sp. Humph. Herb. Amboin. vol. i. p. 68. 



Drymophloeus is a tropical genus of small palms, consist- 

 ing of about a dozen species, scattered oyer the torrid 

 regions of the Old World, from the Malayan Peninsula to 

 the Pacific Islands, inclusive of New Guinea and Northern 

 Australia. None have as yet been found in British India, 

 though two are figured in Griffith's " Palms of the British 

 East Indies" as species of Ptychosperma (t. 242 A, B). 

 These are, however, unacknowledged copies of Blume's 

 figures, the one (t. 242 A) of Pt. appendiculata, and the 

 other (t. 242 B) of his Pt. olivceformis, made no doubt by 



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