anthers small, oblong; pistillode slender. Fern. fl. 

 very small, hemispheric; sepals and petals imbricate'; 

 stammodes minute ; ovary oblong, 1 -celled, stigmas 3 

 sessile. Fruit seated on the accrescent calyx, f in. long, 

 oblong, crowned with the stigmas. Seed ruminate.— 

 J. D. H. 



Fig. 1 Male fl.; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistillode; 5, immature fem. fl. ; all 

 enlarged: ; 6, fruit ; 7, the same, cut vertically, and 8, transversely, of the 

 nat. size ; 9, reduced figure of the Palm. 



