916 OLXXXVII. | PALME. [A rece 
culo, vagina elongata fissa.  Spadices longe graciliterque pedunculati, penduli ; spathze 4, 
iubulose, marcescentes, 2 inferiores incomplete, superiores oblique apertc et fisss ; 
bractesm breves, spadici adnatee ; ieole minutze, gl 
Species 1, Afrieze tropieze occidentalis ineola. 
69. Bentinckia, Berry in Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 621. (Keppleria, Mart. mss. ex Endl. 
Gen. Pl, 251.)—Flores in cavis spiraliter dispositis spadicis interfoliacei ramosi monoici 
v. dioici, solitarii v. 3-ni intermedio 9, bracteati et bracteolati perianthio gl 
Fl 4 sul ci. Sepala late ovato-oblonga, obtusa, basi connata, imbricata. Petala 
erii. cis basi in stipitem connata, valvata. "Stamina 6, filamentis filiformi- 
subulatis apicibus inflexis ; antherm late oblongz, dorsifixe, versatiles. Ovarii rudi- 
mentum conicum.* üt 
Fl9m tes, ovoidei, perianthio post anthesin parum 
aucto. Sepala. ovato- rotundata, ;obtusa, basi connata, imbricata. Petala longiora, late 
ovata, dia 6, minuta. Ovarium conico-trigonum, 3-locu- 
lare; loculis 2 effootis ; stigmata. minuta; (RODA; ovulum . . . Fructus parvus, 
protrusis, pericarpio carnoso et 
fibroso, endocarpio crustaceo, :Semen. basi et apice endocarpio adnatum, profunde et late 
sinuato-sulcatum, hilo basilaxi, rapheos ramis ab hilo ad verticem seminis ascendentibus 
dein d dentibus et reticulatis, albumine sequabili ; embryo basilaris.—Palma inermis, 
caudice mediocri di Folia lit tis angustis longe acu- 
oue etin lacinias s. graciles fissis, marginibus. basi recurvis. .. Spadices erecto-| -patentes, 
[pl Bl, p brevi, ramis lis teretibus basi bracteatis, d coccineis, 
9 violaceis : spathze 2 inferi breves, i plet:, pap D infra apices 
2-fidze ; bractez os. bilabiat cavorum. eff ies; bracteole squamif Flores 
minuti, d' scepe ad squamas ciliatas reducti. 
Species 1, Tranvancorica. Mart. Hist. Nat, Palm. iii. 165, 228, 4. 139. Kunth, Enum. Pl. iii. 227. 
Griff. in. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 467; Palin. Brit. Ind. 160, App. xxvi. Wight in Madr, Journ. 
Nat. Sc. ii. 385. B. ceramica, Miq., et B. Renda, Blume, sunt. Cyrtostachyos, H. Wendl., species. 
70. Watntehia, Roxb. Cor. Pl. iii. t. 295. (Harina, Ham. in Trans. Wern. Soc. v. 317. 
Wrightia, Roxb Fl. Ind. iii. 621.)—Flores in diversis spadicibus interfoliaceis simpliciter 
ramosis motioiet v. MIS polygariti, rantes: et, 2-bracteolati l d t 
Calyx Corolle profunde 3-lobse tubus cylin- 
draceus, lobis lineari-oblongis obtusis coriaceis valvatis. Stamina 6, tubo corolle inserta, 
pcc brevibus subulatis; anthere magnse, lineari-oblongee, obtuss, basi 2-fida 
cie.  Ovarii vestigia 0. Fl. 9 masculis multo minores, subglobosi, peri- 
Boos anthesin immutato. Sepala crassa, orbicularia, concaya, imbricata. Corolla 
coriacea, 3-loba, lobis irisogulari ovatis acutis ovario appressis valvatis. Staminodia pauca 
v. 0. Ovarium depresso-gl , 2-3-loculare, in stipitem brevem contractum ; stigmata 
conica, sessilia; ovula subbasilaria, Fou voideo-oblongus, 1- rarius 2-locu- 
laris et -spermus, stigmatibus terminalibus, pericarpio crasse coriaceo. Semina erecta, 
libera, lineari-oblonga, plano-convexa, hilo minuto basilari, testa tenuissima fasciculis 
is pilorum (raphidibus) instructa; rapheos ramis paucis arcuatis, albumine corneo 
sequabili solido ; embryo medio dorso seminis.—Palm:e humiles, ciespitosm, caudicibus 
brevibus Sis v. caudice (in. W. disticha) elato. Fols. dense fasciculata, in W. disticha 
terminalia disticha, furfuracea, i gmentis solitariis v. infimis 
fasciculatis a basi cuneata oblongis obovaiis v. obl latis eroso-dentatis, terminali 
cuneata, costa distincta, nervis flabellatis, marginibus basi recurvis, petiolo von 2 lai 
compresso, vagina brevi fissa marginibus longe crinitis. Spadices breviter peduncu 
d cernui v. decurvi, ovoidei, ramosissimi, densiflori, 9 laxiores, erecti ; spathze perplurimze, 
ienuiter coriacez, inferiores angustiores, tubulos: ; superiores cymbiformes, complete, 
imbricatz. Flores mediocres, flavescentes. runs rufus v. purpureus. 
Species 2 v. 3; Indis t iem ct Himalaye subtroplee incake, Mart, Hist, Nat. Palm. 
iii. 189 (excl. sp. 3), 316 (Wallickia. ect, Harina) et t. 136 (Harina). Kunth, Enum. PI. iii. 198 
