Tas. 8760. 
HOWEA BELMOREANA. 
Lord Howe Island. 
Patmak. Tribe ARECEAR. 
Howra, Bece.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 904; Baill. Hist. 
Plant. vol. xiii. p. 855. 
Howea Belmoreana, Becc. Malesia, vol. i. p- 66; Bull. Soc. Tose. Ort. 1889, 
p. 257; Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. viii. p. 75; Hemsl. in Ann. Bot. vol. x. 
p. 255; Maiden in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. xxiii. p. 148; Bece. in 
Martelli, Webbia, vol. iv. p. 158, fig, 1-9 and p. 165; species H. Forsterianae, 
Becc., valde affinis, foliolis sursum convergentibus spicisque solitariis differt. 
Arbor ; caulis gracilis, annulatus, basi incrassatus, ad 10 m. altus. Folia ad 
caulis apicem approximata, subtus ad costam brunneo-paleacea, 2-2°5 m. 
longa; petiolus 1 m. longus, laevis, subtus convexus, supra late canali- 
culatus; vagina breviter deltoidea, 7 cm. lata; foliola circiter 70, sursum > 
convergentia, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, 7 dm. longa, 2 cm. lata. Spicae ad 
axillas foliorum imorum productae, indivisae ; spatha primum cylindrica, 
subacuta, spadice aequilonga, explanata 4-5 cm. lata, dorso prope apicem 
2-carinata; spadix nutans, monoica, 9 dm. longa, 1°2 cm. diametro, 
furfuracea; flores numerosi, congesti, in alveolis ternatim dispositi, 
2 laterales ¢, centralis 9. Flos ¢ multo ante 9 evolutus; sepala late 
cordata, 5 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, late imbricata, conduplicata, crassa, 
dense breviterque ciliata, obtuse carinata; petala oblonga, acuta, 7 mm. 
longa, 4 mm. lata, valvata, cartilaginea; stamina 50-70, congesta ; 
antherae oblongae, acutae, 4 mm. longae, filamentis brevissimis ; rudi- 
mentum ovarii 0. Flos 9; sepala suborbicularia, concava, 5 mm. longa, 
7 mm. lata, coriacea, marginibus dense rufo-ciliata; petala brunneo- 
ciliata, parte superiore valvata, crassa, 5 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, viridia, 
parte inferiore imbricata, tenuiora, alis brunneis vel rubescentibus 2 mm. 
latis instructa; staminodia 0; ovarium ovoideum, symmetricum, apice 
purpureum, 4 mm. longum, 2°5 mm. diametro, 1-loculare; ovulum 1, 
erectum; stigmata 3, lata, auriculata. Drwpa subsuccosa, 3 cm. longa, 
sordide fulva; mesocarpium fibrosum; endocarpium pallide fuscum, 
opacum, ramis rhapheos notatum. Semen 2 cm. longum; endospermum 
aequabile, solidum, corneum ; embryo basilaris, conico-ellipticus, 2 mm. 
longus.—Kentia Belmoreana, C. Moore et F. Muell. in F. Muell. Fragm. 
Phyt. Austr. vol. iii. p. 99, et vol. viii. p. 234; Benth. Flor. Austr. vol. vii. 
p. 137; Illustr. Hortic. 1874, vol. xxi. p. 186, t. 191 (Balmoreana) ; Le 
Jardin, 1889, p. 93; Rev. Hort. 1896, p. 77, figs. 25-27; Maiden in Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. xxiii. 188. Grisebachia Belmoreana, H. Wendl. et 
Drude in Linnaea, xxxix. pp. 177, 188, 200, t. 4, fig. 1-2.—C. H. Wricur. 
This is one of two closely allied species which have 
been separated from the genus Kentia, Bl., on account of 
Aprit—Jung, 1918. 
