Kentia.] CXXXIII. PALMA. 139 
m 
confluent at the base 12 in. broad, truncate and many toothed at 
= apex each one readily splitting into 2. Fruit ovoid-globular, 2 
in. long. 
W. Australia. Escape Cliffs, Hulse. 
The materials are not sufficient to characterise a species, yet neither the leaf nor 
the fruit can be referred to the K. W endlandiana, the only other pinnate-leaved Palm 
of which I have seen specimens from Arnhem’s Land. 
3. CLINOSTIGMA, Wendl. 
(Cyphokentia, .4. Brongn.) 
Flowers monecious in the same spadix, sessile along the branches, 
the males usually 2 together, the females solitary (later developed on 
the same hotches?). Male flowers: outer perianth of 3 imbricate 
Segments, inner longer of 3 valvate segments. Stamens 6 surrounding 
e ov. 
an abortiy ry owe segments of both series imbricate. 
Ovary l-celled ? with 1 erect ovule. Fruit obliquely globular, the scar 
or remains of the style very excentrical or quite late erect, 
ome detached from the periearp. Albumen not ruminate. Embryo 
asal.— Erect palms with the habit and pinnate leaves of Kentia. 
OMM the Australian Species, which is endemic, there are several from New 
o. Mooreanum, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 235.—A dwarf palm of 
bakin aves said to be 3 or 4 ft. long, the se, ents numerous, 
l ft. long, the young ones of our specimens longitudinally plieate. 
about 6 | osely sessile; the spatha coriaceous, broadly ovate, 
branch m. ong, with 2 outer concave bracts. Panicle very much 
" P4. at first'compact, spreading to about 1 ft. long and broad when 
© lowers very numerous, not yet open in our specimens, 
mi globular, and irt line diameter, the sabes segments half as 
ng- Female rianth under the fruit expanded to 3 or 4 lines 
Ms it obliquely globular, about z in. diameter. Seed with 
. mg oblique almost lateral hilum.— Wendl. and Drude in Linnea, 
718; Kentia Mooreana, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 101 ; viii. 294. 
tag s. Wales. Lord Howe's Island, summits of Mount Gower and Mount 
- Moore, 
4. PTYCHOSPERMA, Labill. 
Seaforthia, R.Br, ; Laccospadix and Archontophoenix, Wendl. and Drude.). 
: simp kig -Monecious in the same s adix, sessile in the notches of a 
: one later branched rhachis, usually 2 pesos in each notch and a female 
SUE: developed in the same notch. Male flowers: outer perianth 
