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10. Leaflets pointed at the apex which 

 is entire, split or minutely toothed. 

 11. Fruit ovoid, 5 to 8 cm. i?i length. 



22. Actinorhytis. 

 11. Fruit globose or ellipsoid, less 



than 3 cm. long. 

 12. Stems clustered, usually curved 

 and green toward the top. 



23. Cyrtostachys. 

 12. Stem solitary, straight and dull 



brown. 

 13. Flowering branches long, 

 pendant; male flowers small, 

 with 6 or 9 stamens. 



24. Archontophoeniz. 

 13. Flowering branches short, di- 

 varicate; male flowers large, 

 with 30 stamens. 25. Adonidia. 

 6. Inflorescence borne in the axils of the leaves 

 whose bases do not form a tight green 

 boot- like sheath. 

 7. Fruit exceeding 15 cm. in diameter. 



26. Cocos. 

 7 Fruit never exceeding 10 cm. thick. 

 8. Leaflets irregularly toothed at the blunt 

 apex, lobulate at the constricted base; 

 inflorescence once branched. 27. Arenga. 

 8. Leaflets pointed and split at the apex, 

 sigmoid at the base; inflorescence twice 

 branched. 

 9. Fruit 5 to 8 cm. in diameter. 



28. Oraniu. 



9. Fruit less than 3 cm. long. 



10. Leaves 3-ranked, the expanded base 

 glaucous; introduced. 29. Dypeie. 

 10. Leaves imbricate, the expanded base 

 not glaucous; indigenous. 

 11. Ripe fruit globose. 



30. Heterospafhe. 



11. Fruit ovoid or ovately ellipsoid. 



31. Ptychoraphis. 



