180 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, | Licuala, 
web of strong, coarse, light brown fibres, which issue from 
the margins, and begin where the spines end. Spadices 
axillary, solitary, rising several feet above the leaves, 
their whole length being from ten to fifteen feet, of one 
uniform thickness, which is that of a man’s fore-finger; 
from the upper part, at the distance of about a foot from 
each other, issue pendulous, cylindric spikes of about a 
foot and a half long beyond the spathe; these are whol- 
ly covered by numerous, sessile, diverging, pretty large, 
greenish white, inodorous flowers. Spathes seven or eight, a 
tubular,embracing the whole of the spadix; from the mouths 
of the last four or five, the pendulous spikes issue; all 
the tender parts are covered with a large portion of fe- 
ruginous dust. Calyx inferior, one-leaved, campanulate; 
mouth obscurely three-toothed ; outside sericeous, per- 
manent. Corol one-petalled, outside sericeous, perma- 
nent. Tube campanulate, the length of the calyx. Borders 
three-cleft ; divisions expanding and tapering to rather 
obtuse points. No nectarium. Filaments six, short, broad 
at the base, and inserted round the inside of the mouth — 
of the tube of the corol. Anthers sagittate. Germs three, 
forming a short, turbinate, truncate body, like a single 
germ, but perfectly distinct, except the base of the style, 
which is about as long as the stamina, and rises equally 
from the three, and keeps them together. Stigma simple- 
Drupe obovate, the size of a field bean ; a little to the in- 
side of the vertex a three-cornered, three-toothed tubercle 
marks where the style joins this fertile lobe ef the germ to 
the two abortive ones ; when ripe orange-red, and smooth, 
one celled. Pulp in considerable quantity, orange-colour- 
ed. Nut conform to the drupe, much pointed below ; above 
are three slight elevations running “from a point under 
the tubercle of the drupe, hard, dark brown, one-celled- 
Seed single, conform to the nut. Integuments a single, 
very thin, brown membrane. Perisperm conform to the — 
seed, horny, from the back a ferruginous spongy body 
