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Stamens G. Female flowers without a hracf. 

 *A. CATKCiir, L. Cultivated, especially in Tenasseriin, wild on 



Kwam-thi-pcn. Betel-nut palm. Kumorta and Katchall. 



Glabrous, simple-stemuied. Drupes as large as a lien's egg, orange or scarlet. 



Stuiitcns 3. Feinalc flowers without a bract. 

 A. TKiANDKA, Roxb. Trcu forests of Chittagong and the Audamans. 



Tan-kwam-thi. 

 Glabrous, simple stemmed or stoloniferous. 



Oka.nia. 

 0. NicoBABicA, Xurz. Kamorta. 



Spatlte spindle-shaped or claeate. Pulamen at the base o-porous, albumen hullota. 



Cociis, Liiinaus. 



Flowers monoecious, on the same spadix. Petals in females imbricate-con volute. 

 Ovary 3-eelled, only one of the cells ovule-bearing. Drupes largo, woody. 



* G. xuciFERA, L. Cultivated all over Burma, but only thriving near the sea. 



Q,^„ "Wild on the Cocos and Xicobars and the Xorth-western 



°' Coast of Kortli Andaman. 



The cocoa-nut Palm is one of the most valuable of this order, and thrives best in 

 sandy soils within reach of the sea air, and even sea sprliy. 



MI'IX.E, 

 Periiinlh of females reduced to n few scahs. Carpels 3, apocarpous. Male flowers 

 in separate spadices, surrounding the central solitary female head. Leaces pinnate. 



Nii'A, Runiphius. 



Spathes many, sheathing, persistent. Male perianth sex-partite, valvate in bud. 

 Stamens united by threes. Drupes woody, angular-turbinate, in a large dense head. 

 Albumen homogeneous, hollow. 



If. FRUiiCAXS, Wurmb. Tidal forests of Burma, the Andamansand Xicobars. 



Da-ni. 



The thatching or ' Bunny' palm. 



This palm is often cultivated along river banks and tideways for its leaves, 

 which are used for thatching. Kurz remarks that its seeds would supply vegetable 

 ivoiy, but I do not know if they are now so used. 



Sub-division h. 0\arv at'ocahpois. 

 (reduced to one carpel in some Xaiadete). 



POTAMALES. 

 Flmccrs hermaphrodite or miisexual. Perianth of 3, 4, or G segments, or more. 

 Carpels l-ov\iled. .%A' basal or lateral. Seel minute, with very dense albumen 

 and obscure embryo. Minute leafless slender herbs. 



Order XAIADE.E. 

 Marine or freshwater, annual, or perennial herbs. 



Najas. 

 N. sp. In water-liolcs behind Katjui, Kamorta (K.). 



