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THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON,, 

 INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED. 



BY 



E. Blatter, S.J. 



Part XVIII. 



(With Plates XCVI to XGIX and 3 text figures.) 



(Continued from page 6SS of Volume XXIV.) 



IV.— L EPILOG ARYINCE. 



Spadix branched once or more in a 2-ranked arrangement ; 

 flowers in concinni or 2-ranked spikes with bracts and bracteoles 

 round them, carpels 3, fast nuited, covered with scales ; fruit 

 1 -seeded, covered with hard scales ; feather or fan leaves, reduplicate. 



4. — Mauritiece. 



Leaves fan-shaped with regularly or irregularl)^ divided, slightly 

 reduplicate segments. Flowers dioecious 1, dimorphic. 



Distribution. — Tropical America, east of the Andes between 

 16° S. L. and 12" N. L. 



Mauritia L., Lepidocaryum, Mart. Not represented in India. 



5. — Metroxijlece. 



Leaves paripinnate with regularly divided spinous pinnae. 

 Flowers polygamous-hermaphrodite or diclinous. 

 Distribution. — The moist tropics of the Old World. 



S'uh-tribe : EAPHIE^. 



Flowers polygamous-hermaphrodite, or male and female flowers 

 on the same branches of the inflorescence. Ovary completely 3- 

 locular. Embrj^o horizontal. 



Distribution. — Africa on the coast of Guinea and inland to the 

 sources of the Nile, also in East Africa on the coast of Zanzibar 

 and perhaps in Western Madagascar. 



BAPHIA, P. de B., Oncocalamus, Wendl. & Mann, Ancistro- 

 phi/lhim, Hook., Eremospatha, Wendl. & Mann. 



'rAPHIA, Beauv. Fl. Owar. I. 75, t. 44, fig. 1, 45, 46. 



Lam. lllustr. t. 771.— Gaertn. Fruct. t. 40, f. 1.— Sprgl. Gen. PI. 283 

 {Metro.ry Ion) ^Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. I], 53, t. 45, 47, fig. 5, 48 (irt^Ms) ,• 

 m, 2] 6, 34.3— Kth. Enum. PI. Ill, 2J6.— Meissn. Gen. PI. 265.— Griff. 

 Palm. British India, t. 182.— Wallace Palm. Amaz. 42, t. 2, 16. — Mann & 

 Wendl. Trans. Lin. Soc. 24, 437, t. 39, 42.— Oerst. Palm. Centroam. 1858. 

 Dnide in Fl. Brasil. Ill, 11, 286, t. 61, 62.— Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. Ill, 

 II, 935, 110.— Luers. Botan. II, 332.— Becc. in Webbia III (1910), 37— 

 130. 



